City Hall Briefs and Garden Club Honorary Member
The Springside Men's Garden Club named Mayor Butler an honorary member after growing a giant five bloom poinsettia from seed. Butler keeps it on his desk, the plant so large his secretary struggles to locate him. Grace Pellegrini filed a $277 claim against the city after a municipal truck backed into her parked car on Linden Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springside Men’s Garden Club
Butler
Grace Aslan
Grace M. Pellegrini
Linden St
State study to cut school costs may pick Pittsfield
Berkshire County Pittsfield may be chosen for a statewide plan where businessmen, six six member teams, will study cost cutting in 100 school systems. The effort, backed by MACE and AIM, will run six months with $75,000 state funds and $15,000 for manuals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Gaige
Massachusetts Advisory Council On Education
MACE
Gaige
Berkshire County
Pittsfield
Thomas J. Whalen
Associated Industries of Massachusetts
AIM
Warren King & Associates
Chicago
Neil V. Sullivan
John Chaffee
Wellesley
Thomas C. Wojtkowski
Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents
State Association of School Business Officers
Curtiss Bill Would Expand Drug Treatment
Massachusetts lawmakers file multiple bills touching crime education and elections. Rep. Sidney Q. Curtiss seeks state licensed facilities to treat minors for drug addiction without parental consent if the minor requests it, while Sen. Kenneally and Rep. Walsh back tighter limits on racing dates for tracks. Rep. Langone proposes fines to withhold state aid for districts denying sex education. Other items include ballots impoundment for close elections, mortgage discrimination penalties and various court cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Sidney Q. Curtiss
Sheffield
State Department of Public Health
George Y. Kenneally
Joseph B. Walsh
Marie E. Howe
Somerville
Gregory B. Khadadaorian
Arlington
Massachusetts
Joseph A. Langone DI
Obituaries and Funerals Across Berkshire Area
Obituaries from NEW LEBANON to GREAT BARRINGTON memorialize Gordon W. Pinney 14 who died after injuries from December 22 crash on Route 20. Other notices include Mabel Aker Kelleher 74. Lenox Chief David Lane bearers correction. multiple services for Clarence Hall, Mrs Spaniol, Perley Richmond, Robert Henault, and Edwin O’Brien. Also Adams region officials discuss regional traffic issues and Dr Frederick D. McCandless, Albany Medical College psychiatrist, dies in Albany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elliott M. Calkins
Hamia Street
House of Correction
Clement JA. Ferris
Calkins
Francis Wimpenn
Hamlin
First Street
Karen Salvatore
Harvard St
Dalton
Central Avenue
Salvatore
Donald Shaker
Paw Geerholt Jr
Henry Ave
Robert Spanios
YMGA
David Bulian
Plunkett St
Atty. Leonard Cohen
Earl D. Judd
West Street
Stephentown
N.Y
Robert Clemons
Lincoln St
New Lebanon
Gordon W. Pinney
Pittsfield General Unit
BMC
Route 20
Hudson
Wallace C. Pinney
Janet Arnesen Pinney
New Lebanon Central High School
Grace Methodist Church
Nassau
Gregory A
Clarence Pinney
West Lebanon
Hall & Higgins Funeral Home
Carl Byers
the Evergreens
Frederick Darlington McCandless
Department of Behavioral Science
Albany
Great Barrington
McCandless
Berkshire School
Princeton University
Cornell Medical School
Albany Medical College
New Scotland Road
Slingerlands
Melissa Lord
Trina
Sarah
Frederick D. McCandless Jr
H. Darlington McCandless
David
Austin
Tex
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Elmwood Cemetery
Armand J. Bouteiller
Monterey Road
General Electric Co
Fairview Hospital
Mr. Bouteilles
West Stockbridge
Pittsfield
Pensioners Club
First Congregational Church
Cincinnatus Lodge
AF & AM
Monument Chapter
Isaline L. Faivre
Charles A
Alfred E. Bouteiller
Jeanne M. E Bouteiller
Syracuse
William E. Gillette
Southfield
Madeline A. Bouteiller
Stevens Funeral Home
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Wohcongh St
Harry
Bob Childs
Bob Berube
City Hall
Haddad Rucco
Yom
Chad
Bacs BC
Ict
Jack Wolk
State Employment Service
Youth Opportunity Center
Mabel Kelleher
Mabel Aker Kelleher
North St
Patrick Kelleher
Berkshire Hills
Springfield
Kelleher
Rosa Restaurant
Donald E. Bronner
Charles Bronner
Longmeadow
Raymond L. Bronner
Agawam
Wesley Aker
California
Lorraine Gavory
Greenfield
Sampson
Belmont Avenue
Funeral
Holy Name Church
St. Michael's Cemetery
LENOX
Eagle
David N. Lane
Lane
George L. Carey
Edward G. Conklin
Anthony T. Fiorini
Henry A. Fuore
John J. Pignatelli Jr
Anthony W. Romeo
Clarence F. Hall
Zopf
Gordon E. Hohl
Zion's Evangelical Lutheran Church
Pillsfield Cemetery
Beavers
Post 68
American Legion
Belvino L. Caccalore
John J. Ward
Darwin B. Whitehouse
Leo L. Lincoln
Charles A. Persip
Albert W. Cheevers
William J. Spaniol
St. Stephen's Church
Donald F. Chamberlain
Mountain View Cemetery
Richard J
Robert J
Harold J. Spanial
James M. Winters
Louis A. Carderella
William A. Landers
Perley F. Richmond
Perley F Richmond
Lee
Kelly
Walter S. Ryan
Lee Congregational Church
Evening Star Lodge
Af&am
Hugh C. Pecon
Raymond C. Pecon
Fairmount Cemetery
Robert L. Henault
Dery Funeral Home
St. Joseph's Church
St. Joseph’s Cemetery
ADAMS
Williamstown
North Adams
Clarksburg
Savoy
Selectmen
Selectman
Ewart D. Callahan
Coltsville
F. D. McCandless
Kathleen Conway
Monterey
Kathleen J. Conway
George Conway
New Boston
Sandisfield
Robert Rooney
Norwalk
Walter A. Cardell
Timothy J. Hallahan
St. Mary's Church
Pittsfield Cemetery
Edward J. O’brien
Edward J. O'Brien
St. Ann’s Church
Leonard J. M. Perreault
Bernard Nabity
C.J
Immaculated Heart of Mary Seminary
St. Ann's Cemetery
Father Perreault
Edward J. Messer
Edward W. Gilligan
John P. Halpin
Walter A. Hutchinson
George E. Mole
John* J. Pignatelli Jr
Barrington
Lumbertown
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