Special town meeting in Great Barrington set for 7:30 p.m.
A quorum of 60 voters is required tonight at 7:30 at the Gearles Middle School gymnasium. Voters will decide on a police pay raise sewer line extension a Planning Board update under new laws and funding for anticipated municipal debt interest. High Fidelity Cable TV will videotape the proceedings. In Lee the town moderator barred TV cameras from meetings though still cameras were allowed.
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Great Barrington
Gearles Middle
Christian Hill Road
High Fidelity Cable TV
Lee
Monterey Concert Ticket Sale For Dyer-Bennet
Tickets for Richard Dyer-Bennet folk concert at First Congregational Church may be bought at Melvin's Pharmacy Modolo's in Great Barrington or from Mrs James Gould of Monterey or from Phile gian group members. The show starts at 3 30 PM. He has toured eight states and Rome and recently lectured on poetry and music at the Elizabethan Institute Vermont. He scored Shakespeare for a Champlain Festival Theatre production and will begin his 25th American tour next season with three days weekly voice and guitar teaching in New York.
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Monterey
Richard Dyer-Bennet
First Congregational Church
Melvin's
Modolo's
Great Barrington
James Gould
Philergian Groud
Dyer- Bennett
Rome
Italy
Elizabethan Institute
University of Vermont
Burlington
Champlain Festival
America
New York
Lebanon Valley Wedding and Birth Notices
Town Clerk Herbert W. Lindholm and Mrs Lindholm will attend their daughter Marjorie Ellen Coulsons wedding in Chula Vista California on Saturday. Mrs Ernest Stone will handle business in her absence and Mrs Lindholms beauty shop will close. Mr and Mrs Michael Gillen of Albany announce the birth of daughter Danielle on Aug 12 at St Peter s Hospital Albany. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs George F Gillen and Robert Jones of West Lebanon. The couple also have a son David visiting grandparents.
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Herbert W. Lindholm Sr
Hinsdale Grange hosts annual meeting and events
Hinsdale Grange will meet tonight at 8 at the Maple Street hall with competition night observed as young members oppose older members. Mrs. Harold Lee and Mrs. Louis Zauche in charge. Also notes on Camp Maconie defeating Tire Department in softball 15-6 and other local notices including clambake plans, fire department call, and community updates.
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Grange
Maple Street
Harold Lee
Louis Zauche
Camp Maconie
Tire Department
Elons
Chile
Hinsdale
Camp Taconic
Lanesboro Peewee Football Tryouts Tonight at 6
Coach William DiLego invites boys aged 9 to 14 as of Sept 1 to the Lanesboro school field tonight at 6 for peewee or junior football. Volunteers welcome to help. Litle League baseball slate lists White Sox versus Dodgers and Dodgers versus Indians with 6:15 start times this week.
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Lanesboro
William DiLego
Lanesboro School
DiLego
White Sox
Dodgers
Indians
Middlefield votes to buy secondhand four wheel drive truck
Middlefield Special Town Meeting approved purchasing a used 1960 Ford four wheel drive truck for 5185 dollars, with 500 trade in for an International truck, 2500 in town funds, and a balance note. Voted to ask Selectmen to consult Assessors on a pending property revaluation. Also, Conservation Commission and Town Advisory Committee meet Thursday at 8 at the school for a soil survey report on recreational sites.
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Middlefield
North Berkshire Vocational School Health Programs Reopen
North Adams McCann Regional Vocational School reports 52 students enrolled in four health programs to begin when school reopens September 3. Programs train practical nurses medical surgical and dental assistants. North Adams tax rate rises to 52.40 reflecting school costs and government levy increases.
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North Adams
McCann Regional Vocational School
Amherst College Names Wirtz to Board of Trustees
Massachusetts mass Amherst Willard Wirtz former secretary of labor under Kennedy and Johnson named to Amherst College board of trustees. One of 17 trustees he is the only non alumnus and a 1933 Be-Toit College graduate. In Boston DNR plans September bids for a dam at Crooked Pond Plainfield after blasting a dam in February to prevent flooding. Beaver rebuilt the dam and pond was refilled by late spring despite cottage resident protests.
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Amherst
Willard Wirtz
Kennedy
Johnson
Amherst College
Wirtz
Be- Toit
Wis.) College
Boston
Plainfield
Crooked Pond
Bruce S. Gullion
Forest and Parks Division
Department of Natural Resources
DNR
Miss McHugh To Be Hostess At Exposition
Beverly McHugh a 16 year old Dalton student is chosen as junior honorary hostess for Governors Day at the Eastern States Exposition on Sept 13 in West Springfield She will join the New Hampshire delegation and tour the Avenue of States before the governors lunch signifying her service with a merit certificate Miss McHugh attends Waheconah Regional High School and participates in Pep Club Latin Club Girls Athletic Association National Honor Society and other school activities
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West Springfield
Dalton
Beverly Mchugh
Joan McHugh
South St
Miss McHugh
New Hampshire
Walter Peterson
Waheconah Regional
Girls’ Athletic Association
Future Teachers of America Club
Dalton Board Decides to Issue Unused Beer Permit
Dalton selectmen meet Friday night and decide to issue a beer and wine license. Applications will be filed at Town Hall. Prospective licensees include Michael's Restaurant partners Michael Frasia and Michael P Coco of Pittsfield and Wayside Restaurant owners Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Connors of Dalton. Public hearings will precede any decision. the board may choose not to issue if not in town's best interest.
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Dalton
Selectmen
Michael Frasia
Michael P. Coco
Pittsfield
Michael
Union Block
Main Street
Crane & Co
Glenn Connors
Wayside
North Street
Dalton Native Chief Nurse Aboard Hospital Ship Hope
Grace Tucker of Dalton is chief nurse aboard the SS Project Hope, sailing August 29 for a 10 month medical teaching and treatment mission in Tunis. The ship departs Wilmington Delaware and arrives in Tunis September 13. This will be her fourth Project Hope voyage, with prior trips to Ecuador, Guiana, and Ceylon.
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Dalton
Grace Tucker
L. B. Tucker
South St
Tunis
Tunisia
Wilmington
U.S
Car Hits Ledge Injuring Three in Becket
Three people were injured yesterday afternoon when a car driven by Carl K Pease 23 of Chester skidded off Route 20 near Quarry Road and struck a rock ledge. Skid marks totaled 400 feet. Pease sustained a lacerated and broken right hand. Passenger Allen K Newmarker 26 of Middlefield had a broken nose and facial cuts. Joseph C La Forest 22 of Greenwater Pont suffered wrist and hand cuts. None were hospitalized. Trooper William E Brock charged Pease with speeding and operating to endanger.
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Becket
Route 20
Lee State
Carl K. ‘Pease
Chester
Quarry Road
Pease
Allen K. Newmarker
Middlefield
Joseph C. la Forest
Greenwater Pont
Wiliam E. Brock
Waheonah Regional Plans Parents Night at 7
The Waheonah Regional High School guidance department will host a parents night this evening at 7 in the school auditorium. Officials will explain a new work study program for senior male students to parents of boys involved. The public is invited.
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Dalton
Waheonah Regional High School
Windsor Town Meeting Set Thursday
A special Windsor town meeting is scheduled for Thursday at 8 p.m. in Town Hall to vote on four articles. The first two would allow the Selectmen to increase funds for town road areas including the superintendent. The third article is described but rest of details are missing.
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Windsor
Physical Fitness Tests Planned This Week in Dalton
Dalton declares physical fitness week with a Quaker Oats AAU pentathlon at Pine Grove Park Friday at 6. Open to ages 1 to 18, events include push ups pull ups and standing board jumps. Entrants are measured against AAU and national standards and receive prize packs. two home exercise kits will be drawn.
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Dalton
CRA
Archie de Angelus
Hishlicht
Great Barrington
Lee
Pine Grove Park
Quaker Qats Co
AAU
Dalton Dump Open Evenings On Mondays
Dalton town leaders keeping the dump open Monday evenings until 7 00 p m after residents voiced dissatisfaction with the recent change The hours are 8 00 am to noon and 1 00 pm to 7 00 pm Mondays and 8 00 am to noon and 1 00 pm to 4 00 pm Tuesday through Friday Saturday hours are 8 00 am to noon A town employee will supervise dumping to prevent nonresidents from using the limited capacity dump and will check IDs and designate dumping sites
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Dalton
Dalton's
Dnmp
Dalton Taxpayers
Selectmen Meet Tonight in Dalton Town Hall
Dalton selectmen convene at 7 30 pm to open sealed bids for the 1954 sidewalk plan and review applicants for town electrical inspector. Friday they interviewed three candidates for one full time police officer position with a decision in two weeks.
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Center School
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