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By JIM BRIDGMAN

Some 2,000 people attended ceremonies at The Cooley Dickinson Hospital yesterday marking the opening of the emergency outpatient and physical therapy center. Ribbon-cutting ceremonies were conducted by William Welch, president of the hospital, hospital administrator William Lees, and fund drive co-chairmen Robert Saner and David Lipshires.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

The City Art Guild, a non-profit organization located in the basement of the Unitarian Church, opened its doors to the public last week. The organization hopes to “offer the community more access to the arts” and to “stimulate the appreciation and the use of the arts in the community,” said David Bond, director of the guild.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

The people of Northampton have had the happiness of greeting the nation’s guest, General LaFayette. The Hon. J. Lyman, sheriff of the county, being informed of his approach, waited upon him early yesterday morning at Chesterfield, and about 10 o’clock the committee of arrangements met him at Edwards’ Inn, five miles on the road to Pittsfield, where Judge Howe made an appropriate address, to which the general replied in a brief and affectionate manner.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

The first letter to be received by the city from a business interested in developing in the Pleasant/River Urban Renewal Project area was read at a meeting last night of the committee which has overseen the project. Peter Picknelly, president of the Peter Pan Bus Lines, Inc., proposed in his letter to construct a modern bus terminal at the base of Crafts Avenue and Old South Street.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

The first patients moved into the new $3.5 million addition to The Cooley Dickinson Hospital yesterday. The 50,000-square-foot addition consists of three main components: an emergency department, out-patient facilities, and a physical therapy department.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

James F. Cahillane, chairman of the Northampton Redevelopment Authority and board member for five years, announced last night that he will step down on June 30. Under Cahillane’s term, the city has seen the growth of two NRA projects. The Northampton Industrial Park was completed in the fall of 1972 and the Pleasant/River Urban Renewal project is nearing the completion of the survey and planning phase.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

The Family Planning Council of Western Massachusetts is conducting its first large-scale fundraising drive to make up for government cutbacks in the council’s funding. The council, which serves 7,500 clients in the four Western Massachusetts counties, hopes to raise $10,000 from private sources, according to Leslie Laurie, its executive director.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

Chanting “Dukakis should be on welfare,” a group of some 40 welfare recipients and others picketed the state welfare office in Northampton yesterday. The demonstration was intended to dramatize the complaints of protestors who say that the state is unfairly cutting back in welfare and human services spending.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

Calling on Smith College graduates to “fight racism and racial injustice” wherever they find it, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, D-N.Y., received a standing ovation following her address at the college’s 97th commencement exercises held yesterday in the Smith quadrangle.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

A home-care corporation designed to provide services for the elderly will be formed for the Northampton-Westfield area, state Sen. John W. Olver said today. Home-care corporations are non-profit organizations that provide such services as transportation, homemaker, and home health aid and nutrition programs.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

Edward J. Heon has been named executive director of Riverside Industries, Inc. He replaces Robert V. Agoglia, who is planning to return to an administrative position in the area with the Department of Mental Health. Riverside Industries was formerly called the Occupational, Vocational Development Center for the Handicapped.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

The Northampton School Committee last night voted to hire four Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) workers to participate in a training program this summer. The program would enable the workers to join the school department staff in the fall as special education teachers, or, in one case, as a social worker.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

Cubmaster Walter Dembek was taken by surprise at a meeting of Cub Scout Pack 119 last week at which Carol Paciorek narrated a tribute to the scouting leader entitled, “This is Your Life.” Dembek was given a photo album and plaque commemorating his service to Pack 119.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

The cornerstone of the meetinghouse for the second congregational society of Northampton will be laid on Wednesday next. An address will be delivered by Charles E. Forbes, Esq.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

Spokesmen in Amherst say they were pleased by yesterday’s announcement that officials of the John F. Kennedy Library Corp. have narrowed site choices to the University of Massachusetts campuses at Amherst and Boston. Amherst Selectmen Chair Nancy Eddy commented today, “This is a real shot in the arm for the university. It’s a real plum for the university no matter what campus is decided upon.”

By JIM BRIDGMAN

The Honorable Shirley Chisholm, Democratic Congresswoman from the 12th Congressional District in New York, will be the speaker at Smith College’s 97th commencement June 1. Mrs. Chisholm will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree during the exercises.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

To mark its 100th birthday, Smith College will present Northampton with 100 trees over the next 10 years. The Centennial gift has been announced by Thomas C. Mendenhall, president of Smith. The trees, which will come, for the most part, from Smith’s own nurseries, will be planted along city streets that run through and around the campus.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

Amherst Town Meeting last night overwhelmingly gave its support to locating the John F. Kennedy Library on the University of Massachusetts campus at Amherst. Voting on a motion submitted by Chair of the Selectboard Nancy Eddy, Town Meeting voted 180 to 28 to endorse locating the library on the UMass campus.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

An administrative law judge for the National Labor Relations Board has found that the management of Bookland, Inc., Bookstores violated a federal labor law last summer by attempting to “coerce” employees not to organize a union. Bookland has three shops in the area, including one on King Street in Northampton.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

Northampton’s registry of motor vehicles will remain on Center Street while city officials search for a suitable building to relocate the registry in the downtown area. The registry had been scheduled to move its operation this spring.

By JIM BRIDGMAN

Coretta Scott King, widow of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, told Smith College women yesterday that they should become part of the “creative, dedicated minority” that is seeking to alleviate poverty, war, racism and other injustices in the world. Speaking at Helen Hills Hills Chapel, Mrs. King told the students that as “privileged women” they had a special obligation to help their fellow human beings.