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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1969
Page
8
The Southern Berkshire Junior Peewee Football League is $650 short of a $2,600 goal, with Bernard Frye of Sheffield coordinating fund drive. Donations via checks payable to the league should be mailed to Post Office Box 456, Sheffield, and donors’ names will appear on game programs and sponsor lists.
GREAT BARRINGTON Selectmen will seek town counsel guidance on whether a special permit or zoning variance is needed to open SBCA day-care at St James Episcopal Church. The center for ages 3 to 5 aims to free welfare mothers for employment. Opening postponed to October due to rectory renovations. church to provide facilities at no charge. Executive Director J Frank Lenaghan presented the permit application. Irwin N Broverman, son of Mr and Mrs Aaron Broverman, earned an AS in business administration from Johnson & Wales College Providence RI.
GREAT BARRINGTON At a large special town meeting voters defeated articles for a police pay hike and a $90,000 sewer main extension to Christian Hill Road. In a secret ballot 945 opposed the police proposal to raise patrol hours and salaries. 146 supported it. The sewer plan also lost 226 to 117, though a $3,000 interest article passed unanimously. The planning board proposal to reorganize and update subdivision laws was approved in a basic hands count, with a follow up article to come.
Peeples Choice Gift Shop advertises pewter baby cups priced at $5.95 with a negative twenty percent ad note indicating a discount or promotion.
Town Counsel Ronald Oliveira told Clifford Perkins editor of New Leaf that no license is required to sell the newspaper on public property in Stockbridge. Perkins sought permission to sell in stores and on streets. the board referred the request to counsel for possible regulations if issues arise. Perkins said distribution would use newsstands, subscriptions, and high school students. the matter noted no advance regulatory drag.
New York area considered as a potential site for a new black community per state NAACP president Donald Lee after a 165 mile hike from New York. Eight demands posted at Albany include restoring welfare cuts and creation of a state urban affairs department. Buffalo plans regional orchestra to serve Upstate New York with Rochester base. fund drives aim to merge Buffalo and Rochester philharmonics. An American Airlines pilot conducted emergency landing at Albany after suspected hydraulic failure on a flight from Boston to Buffalo and Detroit. 400 Astrojet carried four passengers, landed safely.
Connecticut Hartford Contact Inc plans service for priests who leave the Roman Catholic priesthood. George Shields of Contact, once with Passionist Fathers in West Hartford, cites about two priests per month leaving Hartford diocese. Officials deny figures. For now, Contact will use a Hartford post office address and hopes to open an office later.
Massachusetts Westfield high school may lose accreditation as NEASC Commission recommends vote to drop Westfield. Overcrowding cited as failing to meet minimum standards. built 1931 for 750, current enrollment 1,050 pupils.
STOCKBRIDGE The town’s landfill on Middle Road in Glendale began operation after a contract with Thomas M. Clark of West Stockbridge was signed at the selectmen meeting. Clark, who previously ran the Great Barrington dump, bid $14,076 for one year plus $1 per yard of fill, funded by a $10,000 town appropriation approved in February. The board also authorized purchasing three Motorola walkie talkie radios for the Fire Department at $1,563, with delivery expected in two weeks after testing. repairs were ordered for defective hoses from 1964 and 1946 stock to ensure proper pressure ratings.
The Richmond tennis association announces finals for the first women’s singles and junior events starting Thursday with Sunday finals. Registration info, draws posted at Goodwood court, a youth contact, and a cookout follow Sundays finals. Membership drive reports 23 families. Next event September 7.
Egremont Fire Department rushed to a dump fire near the woods on the site’s south side after a 11 15 pm call. Two fire trucks and about 12 men fought the blaze and had it under control in a short time.
Andrew J. H. Scheffey director at Williams College Center for Environmental Studies will speak on Saturday at 3 at Laurel Hill Day. His topic is Conservation and Environment in Wider Area of Concern. He has held multiple policy and advisory roles linking open space recreation and conservation.
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