A Look Back, May 9

Published: 05-08-2024 11:01 PM

50 Years Ago

■Betsy E. Vaundell, a teacher in Northampton, was elected director for Hampshire County District of the Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) at their annual meeting held this weekend in Northampton. Miss Vaundell is president of the Northampton Teachers Association.

■Amherst Town Meeting last night voted 95-79 to call for the impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon. The town’s top governing body also voted 104-79 against a proposal to call for a “moratorium” on the construction of nuclear power plants in the state until all safety factors and alternatives have been investigated.

25 Years Ago

■In its first expansion in 35 years, the University of Massachusetts today will announce plans to open a sixth campus this fall, in Westboro. The UMass Center for Professional Education, which will offer MBA and other graduate degrees, is an effort by the state’s public university to tap into the burgeoning region along the Interstate 495 beltway.

■A high patient load Wednesday forced Cooley Dickinson Hospital to instruct area ambulance services not to deliver non-emergency patients for three hours. The hospital turned away two patients who subsequently received care in Springfield and Westfield, while two other patients opted to wait for hospital beds.

10 Years Ago

■Northampton’s License Commission Wednesday voted to revoke one of businessman Eric Suher’s two idle liquor licenses after he failed to meet several deadlines for opening a 26-28 Center St. establishment he calls the Green Room. Suher, who owns Iron Horse Entertainment Group, has been renovating the Center Street space but has not yet made good on promises to the commission that it would be open earlier this year.

■The Northampton schools union has a new president — the first change in its top leadership in more than a decade. In a 137-49 vote last week, Julie Spencer-Robinson, a social studies teacher at JFK Middle School, defeated Sharon Carlson, longtime incumbent president of the Northampton Association of School Employees.