Overloaded trucks fined in Southern Berkshire court
Three truck drivers delivering repair materials on Stockbridge Road were fined in Southern Berkshire District Court for overloaded vehicles. Fines totaled $260 with rates set at $10 per thousand pounds of excess weight. Names include Robert G. Levene, Robert L. Williams, and Bruce A. Benoit, all pleading not guilty and appealing to a six member jury.
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Great Barrington
Stockbridge Road
Berkshire
George R. McCormick
Robert G. Levene
Montague
Robert L. Williams
Easthampton
Bruce A. Benoit
Orange
William Gray
James A. Zucco
Sheffield
Dale Bosworth
Southfield
Monterey
Bennett Plans Business in Japan
Great Barrington resident and Bar rington Pottery owner Richard Bennett will relocate to Matsu, Japan to launch a ceramics venture employing about 12 people. He will supervise a large wood burning kiln construction, showcase in Kyoto, and operate a Japan exchange program while his local shop continues to sell in Boston and on Main Street. Bennett departs today for a seven week stay with work-study apprentices joining him.
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Great Barrington
Richard Bennett
Barrington Pottery
North Plain Road
Matsu
Japan
Bennett
Kyoto
Boston
Main Street
Regional Reopens Sept 3 at Housatonic Valley High
Falls Village Conn Housatonic Valley Regional High School will reopen on September 3 with freshman orientation and classes starting September 4. The guidance office will register new students weekdays 9 to 2 until August 29. Football soccer and cross country physicals set for 6 30 tonight at the school. Adult education planned in elementary and private schools to ease transportation. Art history course at Kent School for Boys taught by James Breasted begins September 11 with six sessions and a small fee. Andrew Casale directs adult education.
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Falls Village
Conn
Housatonic Valley Regional
Kent School For
James Breasted
Andrew Casale
State Police Find Aged Missing Man
In Barkhamsted Connecticut state troopers and bloodhounds recovered Steve Yawins of Newington after he wandered from a campsite in People's Forest. He had been missing about 24 hours and was found uninjured Tuesday night into Wednesday morning.
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Barkhamsted
Conn
Canaan Barracks
Steve Yawins
Newington
People’s Forest
Yawins
Stephentown School District Faces Crowding At Open
Berlin Central School District plans 1280 students for Sept 3 with district-wide crowding anticipated in five elementary schools and the junior senior high. Daniel McGuire becomes supervising principal replacing Frank Schmidt. Walter Kersch takes high school principal post full time. New faculty include Cheryl Rutherford James Gibbons Ora Mangiore Jeanne Demick Coulson Donna Martyniuk Mabel Amidon with Eva Shaw retirement.
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Stephentown
N.Y
Berlin Central School
BCS
Board of Education
Walter Kersch
Schodack Central
Cheryl Rutherford
Grafton
James Gibbons
Ora Mangiore
Petersburg
Jeanne Demick Coulson
Coulson
James Hogue
Ardarath Gorsky
Kenneth Doolittle
Donna Martyniuk
Louis Urbana
Mabel Amidon
Eva Shaw
Amidon
New County Program Planned for Elderly
Gov. Nelson Rockefeller announced seven projects including the New Rensselaer County Senior Citizens Coordinating Project. Contracted with Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany, the county program will build new centers, provide information and referral services, counseling, friendly visiting, and employment services for the elderly. Seventeen staff, including ten seniors, will be hired as eight aides conduct an employment survey to locate part time jobs for the elderly.
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Troy
N.Y
Rensselaer County
Nelson Rockefeller
Catholic Charities
Diocese of Albany
Monterey Lake Garfield Water Okayed for Swimming
Monterey state health tests show Lake Garfield water safe for swimming after periodic bacteria checks. Highway work delayed to Oct 12 due to heavy rain and washouts. Gould Farm House 25 summer concert next Friday at 7:10 p.m. features music of our time folk and classics directed by Mrs. Rose Jockwig. Audience invited with no charge. A youth group outdoor dance at the village ballfield Wednesday from to lt, with music by the Universal Set. public invited.
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Lake Garfield
Monterey
State Department of Public Health
Howard R. Walls
Monterey — Gould Farm
Universal Set
West Stockbridge Selectmen set talks on water rate hike
West Stockbridge officials plan to meet state Department of Public Utilities representatives to push for a public hearing on the West Stockbridge Water Company's July 1 rate increase of 20 to 8 percent. The board aims to compel a hearing before the hike, while the company has not indicated plans for one. Other business included setting a special town meeting on the new dump site, considering sidewalk extensions on Stockbridge Road, seeking $12,000 for Lenox Mountain Road reconstruction, noting alcohol sale rules for Labor Day, and starting a Neighborhood Youth Corps project at Card Pond Beach with five workers and a supervisor. The NYC effort grew from a Park and Recreation Committee spring meeting and a later session with Southern Berkshire Community Action, Inc.
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Monument Mountain
Great Barrington
Berkshire County Students Union
Landa
U.S. Supreme Court
Tinker
Des Moines
Iowa
U.S
Stockbridge
Atty
Paul Ross
Long Pond Road
New York
High Court
Stockbridge Dialogue For Education Group
West Stockbridge
State Department of Public Utilities
DPU
Actio
West Stockbridge Water Company
John Viola
Stockbridge Road
Lenox Mountain Road
Town Beach
Card Pond
Park and Recreation Committee
David York
Pittsfield Nyc
Selectmen and Southern Berkshire Community Action, Inc
Hancock pupils pick up supplies at Hamilton home
Hancock pupils entering grades 9 and 11 at Lebanon Central School may collect their supplies at the home of Richard P. Hamilton, School Committee chairman, on Whitman Road, Monday from 10 to 4.
Horton Entries Win In Dairy Competition At Fair
Cummington residents Jack Horton and his wife Mrs. Horton won multiple prizes at the Littleville Fair dairy contests. Mrs. Horton earned first prize and blue ribbon with a Brown Swiss heifer calf and two-year old cow plus junior and grand champion for the heifer calf. Horton exhibited Ayrshire cattle and took top honors with a senior yearling heifer, a four-year-old cow with senior and junior champion prizes, and multiple firsts for the Ayrshire dairy herd, best uddered cow, and senior get-of-sire.
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Cummington
Jack Horton
Horton
Ayrshire
Florida Clergy Split On Sunday Voting
Florida clergy debated Sunday voting after a state election official urged polls on Sundays. In Miami, Rev. Charles Zinn suggested changing the day would likely not affect church attendance or voter turnout, saying the truly loyal would still vote while others might skip.
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Florida
MIAMT
Charles Zinn
Miami
Three Towns May Hire Policeman
STEPHENTOWN N Y The Town Board favors hiring a jointly serving officer for Stephen town Berlin and Petersburg under the Tacon ic Valley Planning Association. Supervisor Carl Jensen cites enforcement as key and cooperation as the solution amid costly enforcement. The board approved routine reports and bills and set a Sept 8 meeting at 7 p.m. at Town Hall.
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Stephentown
N.Y
Berlin
Petersburg
Taconic Valley Planning Association
Carl Jensen
Planning Association
Sale To Benefit Building Fund at New Lebanon
NEW LEBANON N Y Masonic building fund sale tomorrow at 10 30 a m with four leaked goods rummage sale at the site of the new building Route 20 and 22 intersection Unity Star Chapter 841 OFS sponsors the event Annual pleas for Little Leaguers and their parents at 6 30 p m tomorrow at Shat ford Park Movies at dusk A Lebanon Valley Lions Club vs Stephentown Fire Department softball game postponed until next month Visitors from Downers Grove Ill Mr and Mrs Robert Petticrew and daughters Susan and Linda at Lebanon Springs
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New Lebanon
N. Y
Masonic Building Fund
Unity Star Chapter 841
OFS
Shatford Park
Lebanon Valley Lions Club
Stephentown Fire Department
Robert T. Petticrew
Susan
Linda
Downers Grove, Ill
Mrs. Petticrew
Mrs. Sanford
Beach
Lebanon Springs
One Car Crash Injures Two in Lenox Lee Event
In Lenox and Lee, Massachusetts, a car driven by Mabel D. Simmons of Lenox Dale struck the front steps of the Congregational Church in Lenox New Lebanon NY area. Passenger Benjamin Winters of Lee suffered nose lacerations and a fractured hip. Simmons had facial injuries and was hospitalized. Winters was treated at Albany VA Hospital then moved to a Lebanon Valley ambulance. condition satisfactory. Trooper Morris said Simmons fell asleep at the wheel. She is charged with failure to keep to the right and faces Justice Court Tuesday.
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New Lebanon
N.Y
Berkshire County
Mabel D. Simmons
Lenox Dale
Congregational Church
VA Hospital
Albany
Lebanon Valley Protective Association
W. J. Morris
Justice Court
Hampshire County United Fund formed in Pioneer merger
The Northampton and Easthampton community funds merge to create Hampshire County United Fund, Inc. The drive will also raise money in Hadley Hatfield and Williamsburg with Amherst likely to join. The new larger system aims to broaden appeals to professionals, small business owners and industries to support 16 agencies. Springfield mayoral race heats up with re election bid by Frank Freedman and possible rivals Kingston and Hurst. Officials caution about a nude in planned for Forest Park possibly being a hoax.
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Northampton
Easthampton
Hampshire County United Fund, Inc
Hadley
Hatfield
Williamsburg
Amherst
Springfield
Frank Freedman
William Kingston Jr
Frederick Hurst
Stratton attacks Rockefeller over three degree pollution standard
U S Rep Samuel S Stratton accuses Gov Rockefeller of an unholy alliance with nuclear interests over a thermal pollution standard for New York inland waters. He calls three degree limit insufficient to protect fish life as standards were just announced. In Tonawanda Iroquois chiefs announce Unity confer to spread Great Law of Peace to tribes across the continent. Bear says law restores Indians as earth protectors, a cultural religious and political code.
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Albany
U.S
Samuel S. Stratton
D-N-Y
Rockefeller
Finger Lakes
Tonawanda Reservation
Wlad Bear
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