■Groundbreaking for the new $200,000 Jerry Lewis mini-theater to be constructed near Caldor Shopping Center on North King Street took place Monday. Officials buried an X-rated film which will not be shown in the new complex.
■Mrs. Joyce Brigham, RN, and Mrs. Anne Wood, RN, graduate nurses at Cooley Dickinson Hospital, were two of 15 nurses from New Hampshire and Massachusetts who recently completed a five-week coronary care course at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital in Hanover, N.H. The course is designed to educate registered nurses in the total aspect of intensive coronary care nursing.
■A power failure this morning not only cut electricity to downtown businesses — it left many people without a hot cup of joe to help get their days started. Some businesses along Main Street, where coffee usually flows freely in the mornings, instead put up signs telling people the bad news: no caffeine.
■The Northampton firm Aquadro & Cerruti has been awarded the contract for the $22.1 million expansion and renovation of the Amherst Pelham Regional High School. The project is expected to be completed in two phases, with a three-story addition to be started this summer and finished by September 1997. Following that, the existing building will be renovated, with an expected completion date of fall 1998.
■Smoking and other tobacco use is slated to become a thing of the past at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, now that officials have approved a plan to make the campus smoke-free beginning July 1, 2013. Smoking has been prohibited in all buildings since the mid-1980s.
■An architectural inspection slated to begin this month aims to preserve one of downtown’s landmarks, the Hampshire County Courthouse. The 1887 Romanesque structure today is owned by the Hampshire Council of Governments. Executive Director Todd Ford said the inspection will take a close look at the integrity of the building and set priorities for future repairs.