Stockbridge Board Approves Six Warrant Articles
Stockbridge Finance Committee approves six articles for the Sept. 15 special meeting. Parks and Recreation proposes $482 for Shamrock Street youth building work, $175 for Interlaken and Stockbridge park swings, and $200 for fall seeding of baseball parks. Additional items include $1,000 to support Lee Volunteer Ambulance Service, $1,200 for Town Hall roof and gutters, and repairs to Interlaken dam. Reserve funds of $460 for Bidwell basketball court blacktop and $300 for veterans services are also authorized.
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Stockbridge
Parks and Recreation Commission
Park Commission
Jancis Mackie
Shamrock Street
Interlaken
Selectmen
Recreation Park
Bidwell
Plain School
Lee Volunteer Ambulance Service
Interlaken Dam
Reserve Fund
Veterans’ Services
Secret site plan proposed for new Stockbridge fire station
A Firehouse Survey Committee presented criteria and eight discussed sites, including Elm Street, for a new firehouse to replace the current Elm Street station. The board will consider forming a building committee at the September 18 special town meeting. Committee members Karl Bechtel, John McDonnell, Francis Pilling, George Emerson Jr., and Robert Cornell volunteered.
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Stockbridge
Elm Street
Firehouse Survey Committee
Karl F. Bechtel
John P. McDonnell
Francis L. Pilling
George E. Emerson Jr
Robert H. Cornell
Shop Selling Women's Apparel Closes Today
STOCKBRIDGE The Blue Bird Sport Shop on Main Street will close today. Owners Mrs Laura Bevan and Miss Marjorie Pike announced the shutdown. Bevan has run the business since 1952 and Pike owns the building. The shop has sold women’s apparel year round for four years in Stockbridge after wintering on Green Street Northampton. They plan to continue occupying the building.
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Stockbridge
Blue Bird
Main Street
Laura Tt. Bevan
Marjorie I. Pike
Grange Plans Annual Fair in Stockbridge Massachusetts
STOCKBRIDGE The Grange with the Massachusetts Department of Agriculture will hold its annual fair on Thursday A roast beef supper will be served from 6 20 to 7 at Procter Hall Cecil Babcock secretary of the Grange fair will be at Procter Hall from 7 to 8 40 Wednesday evening to take early entries for exhibits Other entries may be made up to noon Thursday
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Stockbridge
The
Grange
Massachusetts Department of Agriculture
Procter Hall
Mass
Cecil Babcock
Grange Fair
Stockbridge Board Delays Food Truck License Decision
The Stockbridge Selectmen sent a request for a common victualer's license for a mobile restaurant run by Thomas Truran Jr to town counsel for study. If approved, a Board of Health clearance would be required. The decision will be announced at Friday’s meeting. Also discussed were cemetery staffing shortages and a suggestion to contact the state employment office for help.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockbridge
Thomas Truran Jr
Big Daddy
Pittsfield
Great Barrington
Truran
Joseph T. McCormick
McCormick
Selectmen
Lenox to Open Schools With Record Enrollment
Raymond L. Trabald announced Lenox public schools begin September 3 with full sessions. High school students must be at bus stations by 7:25 on opening day. elementary pupils by 7:45. Hot lunch starts September 3 at the high school and September 8 in elementary schools. No milk in elementary for first three days. Enrollment will be the largest in town history with 15 new teachers hired plus 8 replacements and new positions.
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LENOX
Raymond L. Trabald
Trabald
Lenox Memorial High School
Mwe
Trabold
Orientation Planned for New Teachers
Lenox Memorial High School Principal Donald A. Walsh announced a Friday 9 to noon orientation in the school library for all new high school teachers. This session adds to the regular orientation program set for Sept 2 at the high school for all public school teachers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lenox
Lenox Memorial High School
Donald A. Walsh
Welch
Block Dance To Aid Beach House Fund
Lenox youths sponsor a block dance on the outdoor basketball court of the Community Center tomorrow from 9 to midnight. Proceeds fund the new Lenox beach house on Laurel Lake. Tickets at the Community Center door.
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Lenox
Laurel Lake
Comonenity Center
North Adams Council Head Won't Seek Re-Election
North Adams City Council President Richard O'Brien said he will not run again, citing time constraints after four two year terms. He is a WMNB sales executive. The article notes a four-term tenure and his decision to step down this fall.
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North Adams
Richard O'Brien
O’brien
WMNB
Connecticut Mayoral Hopeful Could Lose Party Status
Hartford Deputy Mayor George B. Kinsella faces removal from the Democratic party if he runs for mayor as a third party candidate. His petition certification triggers a two year party loss, affecting his ticket’s designation as well. Opponents include Atty. Joseph Adinalfi and Mayor Ann Uccello. Canterbury house to become Prudence Crandall Memorial Museum housing Afro-American history and war records.
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Hartford
George B. Kinsella
Kinsella
Atty
Joseph Adinalfi
Ann Uccello
Canterbury
State Historical Commission
Prudence Crandall
New York Troy Voters To Get Three Choices
Troy voters in November face three options on city government. One option keeps the present manager form with ward elected councilmen. A second keeps the manager system but moves to at large council elections. The third returns to a mayoral form with a common council.
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Troy
Westover AFB to be reduced under Boland claim
Massachusetts Congressmen says Westover will lose major units as the 8th Air Force and support elements are planned for deactivation leaving only a bombardment wing and a communications company. An Air Force spokesman calls the claim a political announcement.
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Westover
Chicopee
Edward R. Boland
U.S. Air Force
8Th Air Force
Westover Afb
Air Force
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Robert G. Williams
Grange Plans
Ralph Conroy
Beach House Fund
North Berkshire
Robert L. Loretan
Solvay
N.Y
Loretan
Drury High
Stephen
Drotter
NLRB
National Labor Relations Board
Hunter Outdoor Products, Inc
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Hunter
Circuit Court of Appeals
Wheel Estates, Inc
Wheelestates
Reservoir Road
McCann School
McCann
James R. Westall
Connecticut
Museum of Afro-American Culture
New York
Massachusetts
Sears
Ierah
Alan
Windsor
Elec
Sao
U.P
Sears, Roebuck and DO
Stummer
Allendale Shopping Center
Lenox National Bank
Walker
Loeb’s
Foodtown
Lenox, Mass
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