A Look Back: Nov. 7

50 Years Ago

■Mayor Sean M. Dunphy was swept to a third term yesterday with a total of 72% of the total mayoral votes cast. Dunphy won 5,357 votes to challenger Paul Craig’s 2,003. In another race, Mrs. Frances McNulty became the first woman to be elected to the City Council.

■Six empty money bags taken in the break-in at city hall over the weekend have been recovered, police said today. A Massachusetts turnpike employee found the six bags in the eastbound lane of the turnpike Monday morning. The bags were identified yesterday, Detective Richard Ryan said.

25 Years Ago

■After 36 years of operating at the Smith Vocational and Agricultural High School, a nursing certification program offered by Greenfield Community College must relocate. Officials have asked the college to prepare to move its 40-week licensed practical nursing program to free up additional classroom space for school programs next year.

■Some 350 neighbors of the Wastewater Treatment Plant on Hockanum Road are receiving letters inviting them to participate in a survey on the foul smells that may be coming from the newly upgraded facility. Residents of Valley Street, which is near the treatment plant southeast of downtown, complained about a bad odor to the Board of Public Works in October.

10 Years Ago

■With 38% turnout, Easthampton voters elected Karen L. Cadieux as the city’s second mayor by an overwhelming margin of 59% of the votes cast. Cadieux, 59, was elected with 2,567 votes, a large margin considering she had three opponents.

■Voters sent the City Council’s two longest-serving councilors — Ward 6’s Marianne L. LaBarge and Ward 2’s Paul D. Spector — back to the Council Chambers Tuesday, but the dynamic of the council is poised to change considerably in the next two years after challenger Alisa F. Klein ousted incumbent Eugene A. Tacy.