A Look Back, March 30

Unlicensed foreign-trained doctors at Northampton State Hospital will be replaced by personnel from the University of Massachusetts Medical School as part of a plan by the state Department of Mental Health to improve medical and psychiatric services at the hospital. Currently only two doctors on Northampton State Hospital’s staff are fully licensed to practice in Massachusetts.
A Northampton man is in the process of raising a muster of 50 men to march in the June 13th Bicentennial parade here as part of the 10th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment. Thomas F. Hogan, who marched with the 10th Regiment in 1954 at the city’s Tercentenary parade, is seeking to bring members of that unit back for this year’s parade and enlist new men to fill out the regiment.

Local and state officials got no help from the weather today as they prepared — amid slush and rain — to break ground for the renovation and reconstruction of the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Bridge. Work is expected to begin on the bridge at the end of April, said Steven Young, a Massachusetts Highway Department spokesman.
The owner of Hampshire Manor Nursing Home, an independent 42-bed skilled-nursing facility on Route 10 in Easthampton, this week notified the families of 30 current patients and his 38 employees that the home will close within the next four to five weeks.

Smith College alumna and activist Gloria Steinem addressed topics ranging from her views on today’s activism to the recent controversy over a comment she made about young women who support Bernie Sanders during a lecture at Smith Monday evening.
It’s an Easter miracle. A St. Francis of Assisi statue that went missing a little over a week ago was discovered peeking out of a white trash bag on church property Sunday morning and is now back in its rightful place.

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