Great Barrington Housing group gears up for fund drive
Great Barrington South Berkshire Bureau reports Construct Inc a housing group meets 8 pm tonight at St James Episcopal rectory to discuss refurbishing two substandard houses and planning 25 low and middle income dwellings. The group filed for a charter with the Department of Corporations and Taxation. The Conservation Commission plans to meet with the Planning Board to discuss land for public use and open space preservation with potential state and federal funding. Lenox and Lee examples cited for funding and land acquisitions.
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Great Barrington
Construct, Inc
Berkshire
St. James' Episcopal Church
Construct
Southern Berkshire Human Relations Council
Southern Berkshire Tenants Association
Department of Corporations and Taxation
Conservation Commission
Planning Board
Ser
Lenox
Housatonic River
Lee
Finance Committee To Review Money Articles At Town Meeting
The Finance Committee meets next Monday at 7 40 p m at Town Hall to review money articles on the Aug 18 special town meeting warrant. It will make recommendations on items including a 75000 bond issue to extend sewer lines, a 20 percent police pay raise, and about 3000 to pay interest on municipal debt.
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Great Barringson
Christianill Road
Planning Board weighs tighter controls on signs and bylaw changes
Planning Board discusses drafting amendments to tighten sign and billboard oversight under local bylaws. Agenda includes zoning changes to permit trailer parks and a sanitary landfill, HUD planning grant for a 3.3 million sewage facility, junior planner funding, and creation of a citizen planning advisory council. Also notes a minor injury auto crash in Great Barrington with two men treated and released.
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Great Barrington
Planning Board
Outdoor Advertising Board
OAB
Selectmen
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Berkshire County Regional Planning Commission
Berkshire
Citizens’ Planning Advisory Council
Sheffield Man Charged In Lantern Lunch Shooting
Lawrence H. Bull of Hast Road was arraigned in Southern Berkshire District Court on assault with a dangerous weapon after a shotgun firing at Gladys I. Grady at the Lantern Lunch in Sheffield. No injuries reported. Case continued to August 12. bail set at 2500 by Judge George R B McCormick.
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Great Barrington
Sheffield
Berkshire
Lawrence H. Bull
Hast Road
Ball
Gladys I. Grady
George RB. McCormick
Openings Remain in Neighborhood Youth Corps Program
Limited openings exist for boys aged 14 to 18 to join the Neighborhood Youth Corps locally. Ten youths are enrolled. positions include teacher aides in Head Start, maintenance at St James Church and Searles Middle School, clerical aid, and community project work under Arnold Prince. The federally funded program pays 1.40 per hour for a 26 hour week through August end.
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Great Barrington
Carolyn Mower
Community Action Office
Debra Connelly
Linda Dixon
Elizabeth Palmer
Mark Toupence
James Ostrander
St. James’ Church
Arthur Ostrander
Searles Middle School
Tina Gunn
George Dennard
John Ostrander
Charles Menard
Dewey School
Arnold Prince
Adams
Canaan Railroad Day Sale at Bianchi's on Main Street
Old Canaan hosts a Rail Road Day sale from August 4 to August 20 offering 20 to 50 percent off men’s and boys’ summer clothing at Bianchi’s on Main Street.
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Old Canaan
Bianchi's
Main Street
Ady
Pry Family Relocates to Clayton Road
Mr and Mrs Raymond Pry and their 3 year old daughter have moved to Clayton Road Mr Fry is the son of Mr and Mrs Harry Fry of Main Street
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Raymond Pry
Clayton Road
Mr. Fry
Harry Fry
Main Street
Zenowitz Warns Civil Defense Facing Crisis in Nation
Framingham Allan R. Zenowitz state Civil Defense director and NADCD directors president says the Civil Defense program is in its most critical phase since early Cold War. He cites a high level review in progress and pressure to back Nixon’s ABM plan. He warns funding gaps could vastly boost burdens, noting requests of 58 million but needs 150 to 350 million.
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Framingham
Allan R. Zenowitz
National Association of State Civil Defense Directors
Zenowitz
Great Barrington
Washington
Pentagon
Nixon
Congress
Moon couple mark 50th wedding anniversary
Hinsdale Mr and Mrs Herbert Moon of Maple Street celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a party at home attended by about 50 friends and relatives. Married July 28 1919 at New Lebanon Center Congregational Church they have two children Arthur and James G Moon nine grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Mr Moon retired after 44 years with GE as production superintendent in the tube rolling department and served as a WWII foreman in GE ordnance plants. The couple once ran an antique shop in New Lebanon and now enjoy antiques and gardening.
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Hinsdale
Herbert EK. Moon
Maple Street
Moon
New Lebanon Center
N.Y
Arthur
James G
Lebanon Springs
Pittsfield GE
GE Ordnance Department
New Lebanon
Sandisfield Pooch Is Author of Pup Explosion
In Sandisfield the Kimberley mongrel dog has produced 55 puppies in two years. Records show August 1867 yielded 12, July 1888 yielded 13, January this year 15 and another 15 this month. The dog is six years old. When asked about controlling the dog’s prolific littering, owner Mays Kimberley joked about giving her a pill.
Sandisfield Tax Rate Increase Announced for 1969
William H. Rowley, chairman of the assessors, says Sandisfield’s 1969 tax rate is $64 per $1,000, up from $52 in 1968. The general rate is $31.64 and the school rate is $32.26. Tax bills soon in the mail. Mrs. David A. Keltey is the tax collector. Arthur F. Church is a patient in Memorial Hospital, Winsted, Conn.
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Sandisfield
William H. Rowley
David A. Keltey
Two-Car Route 8 Crash Sends Drivers to Hospital
Otis Hood reports two out-of-state motorists were hospitalized after a Route 8 collision north of Holly Road. John Frae of West Rutland Vermont is in serious condition with a fractured nose and crushed chest and remains in intensive care. Richard Dougherty of Warehouse Point Connecticut was treated and released for a lacerated elbow and cracked rib. Frae’s car crossed the center line, causing the crash that damaged both vehicles and required tow removal.
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OTIS
Fairview Hospital
Great Barrington
Holly Road
John JT
West Rutland
Richard 2M
Dougherty
Warehouse Point
Conn
Hee Slice
Frac
Egremont Youth Arrested On Drug Charge
Police say 15 year old William Nardo of Mount Washington Road was arrested on narcotics possession after a car search on Mount Washington Road at 1 30 a m with a warrant. He is to be arraigned in Southern Berkshire District Court Thursday and released on $1000 bail.
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Egremont
William Nardo
Mount Washington Road
Berkshire
Charles M. Sieger
Narde
Northampton Woman Injured in Fall at Sanderson Brook Falls
Hazel Kurtyka, 22, of Northampton, was treated and released from Noble Hospital after a 40 foot fall along the ledges at Sanderson Brook Falls in Chester. Firemen removed her from the brook and Huntington Ambulance transported her to the Westfield facility after she was knocked unconscious.
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Chester
Hazel Kurtyka
Northampton
Noble Hospital
Westfield
Sanderson Brook
Selectmen Hear Proposal For Dalton School Space Solution
Dalton officials heard Thomas R. Shortelle propose a study committee to examine Dalton school needs. Shortelle argued against building a new elementary school, suggesting a regional junior high elsewhere funded by other towns and using Dalton space for expansion. He urged a five member impartial panel with one builder, excluding Finance and School Committee members, to assess needs and costs.
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Dalton
Thomas R. Sherrelle
Shortelle
John W. Bartels
Thomas J. Callahan
Donald T. Cole
U.S. Department of Health Education and Welfare
Shortette
Central Berkshire
Fox Road
Wahconah Regional
Berkshire
Legion Post to Nominate Officers and Host Outing
Dalton Benjamin F Sullivan Post 155 of the American Legion will meet tomorrow at 8 at the post home to nominate 1970 officers. Elections are scheduled for September. The 12th annual post outing is set for Sunday August 4 at 1 p.m. Tickets go on sale at the region home with a August 21 deadline. Herbert J. Brooks chairs the event.
Fr Glendon to Appear on ABC TV Show
The Rev Lowell M Glendon son of Mr and Mrs William J Glendon of 418 Main St Dalton will appear on the ABC program Ferment and the Catholic Church at 7:30 tonight He is a professor at St Johns Provincial Seminary in Plymouth Mich where part of the program is staged Glendon a Dalton native graduated Dalton High School in 1952 studied at UMass and Grand Seminary Montreal and was ordained in 1961.
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Dalton
Lowell M. Glendon
William J. Glendon
Main St
Grand Seminary
Montreal
Switzerland
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Giolithsos Stockbridge Road
Finance Committee
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Dempsey's
J. J. Spillane
Grove Street
Dial
Ady. i
Bill's Phey
Ady. A
Structo Barbeque Grill
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New York
Roger P. Milot
Ralph Manson
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Canaan, Conn
Southern Berkshire Oil &Body CO
State Rd
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Kay
Kittredge School
Cornelius F. Sharron
Grange
Maple Street Hall
Everton Parker
Ladies High
Loretta Andrews
Iddies Aces
Alice Converse
Patrick Ryan
New York City
Thorrest Bently
Pittsfield
Lara Clark
Bentley
Margaret Cooke
Boston
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Curtis Street
Sandisfield Pooch
Pup Explosion
Cecil & Mayme
Arthur F. Church
Winsted, Conn., Memoria Hospital
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Fay Piergiovanni
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Falk
Dorothy Chapman
John R. Reardon
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Reardon
Pilisfield General Unit
Berkshire Medical Center
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Housatonic Street
Finegrove Park
Wahconah
Craneville
Shiortelle
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F. W. Spaulding
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