A Look Back: July 20

■Seven unused railroad overpasses in Northampton will be taken down by the Massachusetts Electric Co., a company spokesman said today. The overpasses are on Pleasant Street, King Street, Main Street, North Street, and perhaps another overpass on Earle Street, the spokesman said.

■Next week will be circus week at Northampton city playgrounds with carnivals to be featured. Money from the carnivals will help rent a bus to take the children on various field trips, such as to Mountain Park in Holyoke.

25 Years Ago

■Starpoint Club, a social and rehabilitative club for people who are mentally ill, is now under the auspices of a new agency, staffed by new people. By the end of the month, Starpoint also will have a new address. For the past year the club has been housed at 50 Pleasant St. Starting July 1, it will be moved to Sullivan Square.

■A group of 80 high school girls is spending this steamy July working in Smith College science laboratories. Young women from Malta to Germany, Northampton to Seattle, have convened there for the eighth annual Smith Summer Science Program, a month-long academic program that gives teenage girls a hands-on experience of how science affects their lives.

10 Years Ago

■Lia Auto Group, the Albany, N.Y., company that operates a pair of auto dealerships on King Street, is moving ahead with plans to reopen a Kia dealership it closed four years ago. The Planning Board Thursday night unanimously approved the company’s request for a special permit to build a showroom and service building for Lia Kia in the parking lot of Lia Honda at 263 King St.

■The $8 million solar farm on Greenfield’s capped landfill is now online and pumping out power, and the town is already reaping the benefits of the 4.7 megawatt hours of electricity it is producing each day. The solar panels will cut the town’s electric bill in half.