■Sen. George McGovern, salvaging Massachusetts in the face of a national landslide, swept to a comfortable victory over President Nixon in Hampshire County yesterday. In the Presidential contest, Nixon won 13 of the 20 communities in the county but lost four of the five with the largest registration, three of them decisively.
■Four new trustees have been named to the Cooley Dickinson Hospital board of trustees, according to Administrator William T. Lees, Jr. Elected were: Thomas B. Campion of Amherst; Robert L. Ellis, Northampton; Robert McCarter, Amherst; and Eric Stahlberg Jr., Florence.
■Having just won a seat on the City Council, Phillip L. Sullivan now wants to be the body’s president. Sullivan defeated the City Council’s current president, Patrick M. Goggins, in a three-way race for the two at-large council seats. Mary Clare Higgins retained her seat by topping the at-large field.
■Lucia Miller is the new director of the Northampton Community Music Center. She will help oversee the program’s move to the former South Street School. Miller’s lifelong interest in music began, she says, with a love of the flute, which she played growing up in Connecticut.
■On the day he was elected to be the region’s first new congressman in 20 years, U.S. Rep. James McGovern of Worcester said he is optimistic the new Congress will break through the partisan gridlock of recent years. McGovern will represent much of the Pioneer Valley when the 113th Congress convenes in January.
■A Chrysler Dodge dealership in Enfield, Conn., intends to expand its reach into Hampshire County early next year when it opens in the former Ford of Northampton spot on Damon Road. Anthony F. Troiano, who will own the dealership with Robert Artioli, said Chrysler has been interested in opening a store in Northampton for some time.