A Look Back, April 11

50 Years Ago

■The Northampton Committee to Discuss Impeachment today concluded that a poll released by Rep. Silvio O. Conte Monday shows that a “spectacular and overwhelming majority of the people of this district favor removal of Richard Nixon from the presidency at once.”

■New federal guidelines have made it possible for the state Department of Public Works (DPW) to locate an experimental Five College bike path along the railroad bed between Amherst and Northampton. However, Nicholas Brand of the DPW indicated implementation of the bike path is some time off.

25 Years Ago

■Another potential candidate for the mayor’s seat emerged Thursday when Donald Malboeuf took out nomination papers. He joins a growing field of people interested in making a bid for the post. The list includes John Fortunato, Roy Martin, Mary Clare Higgins, Philip Brocklesby and Leon Malinofsky.

■Five generations of dairy farming in Easthampton came to an end, as hundreds of farmers came to Friday’s auction at Burt and Sons Farm. Many lamented the loss of the town’s last operating dairy farm, a closing they said that has become an all too familiar scenario these days.

10 Years Ago

■Signaling another key milestone in the development of Village Hill Northampton, the state agency overseeing the remake of the former state hospital campus is closing in on a deal with a development company to build 73 zero-energy homes on the north campus. Transformations Inc., a Townsend company, intends to build a mix of duplexes, cottages, and single-family homes on the site.

■Norton Juster, a longtime Amherst resident perhaps best known as author of “The Phantom Tollbooth,” will be honored Thursday as the first recipient of the Jones Library’s Samuel Minot Jones Award for Literary Achievement.