Lenox agrees on sabbatical pay and duties for teachers
The Lenox Teachers Association and the School Committee subcommittee reached a pact on sabbatical leave. Teachers on sabbatical may receive up to 75 percent of salary minus fellowship grants, or 50 percent with no grant, never below 56 percent. Nonteaching duties like grant writing or curriculum work are eligible for compensation or release, at the school board’s discretion. Coaches’ salaries hinge on a pending agreement. Salary schedules set base pay and a split system. town impact estimated at 42,000 to 44,000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LENOX
Lenox Teachers Association
LTA
Joseph Michalski Jr
Ool
Cummings
Adams
Leonard Turgeon
Lenox High School to Offer Evening Guidance Service
Lenox Memorial High School will open its guidance office on Wednesday evenings starting January 14. Guidance director Alfred F. Turnes invites parents to call guidance secretary Mrs. Wesley VanAlstyne to schedule appointments to discuss their children's academic standing or plans after high school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lenox
Lenox Memorial High School
Alfred F. Turnes
Wesley VanAlstyne
Post Office Seeks Part-Time Clerk Opening
Joseph H. Nolan postmaster announces a part-time clerk vacancy at the Lenox Post Office. Starting pay is 5.06 dollars per hour. Applicants must take clerk and carrier tests by the U. S. Civil Service Commission and may contact Nolan or the Civil Service Commission in Hartford, Conn., for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LENOX
Joseph H. Nolan
Nolan
U.S. Civil Service Commission
Post Office
Civil Service Commission
Federal
Hartford
Conn
Zoning Board Denies Appeals for Sign Violations in Dalton
The Zoning Board of Appeals denied variances for three local businesses. Mobil Oil at 630 Malin St must remove a Top Value Stamp sign on a pole but may repair an easel A frame sign. Don's Market at 151 Park Ave is denied a Top Value Stamp sign due to a residential A-3 zone. Vella's at 47 John St is denied a 3 by 3 foot identification sign on two poles in a residential R-3 area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dalton
Zoning Board of Appeals
Mobil Oil Corp
Malin St
Don's Market
Park Ave
Vella’s Package and Variety Store
John St
District Plans Increase in Lunch Prices
Central Berkshire Regional School District proposes a five cent rise for hot lunches and a one cent rise for milk pending state approval. The plan follows a 1970 budget cut totaling 128,141, with 6,000 shaved from the 12,000 requested for the hot lunch program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dalton
Central Berkshire
Regional School Committee
Horrible administration cited in food warehouse traffic clash
Dalton Police Chief Powell told Selectmen that parking chaos at the Route 9 welfare food warehouse creates a traffic hazard. Despite no parking signs and rear lot clearance, cars repeatedly block the highway, forcing extra police, with state help only for emergencies. Community officials push a registration plan to curb lines and congestion while noting welfare offices are already stretched.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dalton
Robert R. Powell
Powell
Route 9
Jerome M. Dunn
Dunn
Legion
Raymond Hichorn
Datton Cleaners
John M. Bonnington
Dalton ‘Traffic Commission
State Department of Public Welfare
Pittsfield
Bennington
Selectmen
John W. Bartels
Bartels
Urban Coalition
Albert A. Bogdan
West Stockbridge Selectmen Not Seek Re-Election
In West Stockbridge two remaining selectmen, John J. Keresey and George W. Panzeri, announced they will not run again. Keresey, longtime chairman, cites expanding real estate business as the reason after seven one year terms since 1954. Panzeri, veteran officeholder, notes his duties beyond the board, including health, constable, and police chief roles, as factors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Stockbridge
John J. Keresey
George W. Panzeri
Keresey
Panzeri
Board of Health
Panteri
Transit-Mixed Concrete Corp
Pittsfield
Charles Lashoon
Margaret Korte Wins Santa Coloring Contest
Margaret Korte aged eight won the Santa coloring contest at Webb plumbing supplies in Pittsfield. Her Santa photo received 33 of 113 votes, earning a $25 U.S. Savings Bond presented by Fred Mitchell of F W Webb Co in Pittsfield. Margaret is the daughter of Mr and Mrs John W Korte Jr of Albany Redd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
Stockbridge
Margaret Korte
U.S
Fred Mitchell
F. W. Webb Co
Pittsfield
Margaret
John W. Korte Jr
Albany Redd
Santa Claus
Webb Plumbing Supplies
Examination Planned for Postal Clerk Cheshire
The U S Civil Service Commission will hold an exam for clerk and carrier positions in Cheshire to meet growing mail volume. Any citizen may apply via the local post office or Hartford Interagency Board of U S Civil Service Examiners. Qualified written-test candidates receive full appointment consideration without regard to race religion color national origin sex or political affiliation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheshire
U. S. Civil Service Commission
Charles L. Jepson
Post Office
Hartford Interagency Board of
U.S. Civil Service Examiners
Post Office Department
School Lunch Prices Rise in Cheshire At 25 to 30 Cents
Cheshire authorities announce lunch prices up from 25 to 30 cents for students and 50 cents for adults, with milk included. Principal Melvin Ferris notes the change became effective yesterday. Lions Club meets at 7 tonight at Grange Hall, Selectmen meet at 7:30 at Town Office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheshire
Melvin D. Ferris
Lions Club
Grange Hall
Peru Town Caucus Deadline and Election Dates
The Peru caucus deadline for candidate filing is Saturday. Open offices include moderator regional school committee town clerk treasurer selectman assessors law collector three-year terms. tree warden two constables and two auditors one-year terms. Caucus is January 24 from 3 to 7 p.m. at Peru Center School with a business meeting February 14 and election February 21.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peru
Peru Center
Town Meeting Transfers Funds In Peru
A Saturday town meeting approved all three warrant articles. Transfers included 450 dollars from the road machinery fund to road maintenance, 293 dollars to cover an insurance premium balance, and 1600 dollars for snow removal rather than 500. Snowstorms necessitated the extra funds. Voter registration occurred at the town clerk’s home, 7 new voters added, 2 removed. total 180 registered. Also noted are holiday visits by Wallace Morrison and family, Airman J C Laurin Steele at Loring AFB with companion Murrielle Dube, and Willard Hopkins family’s Florida trip visiting relatives Muriel Steele and Mabel Rushlow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peru
Robert Steele
Wallace Morrison
Wallace G. Morrison
Ft. Hood
Tex
Willard Hopkins
Janice
Pamela
East Windsor Road
Florida
Bible Study at Federated Church Held Tomorrow
Bible study will be held to morrow at 10 a.m. at the parish house of the Federated Church with Mrs. Edward Hempel in charge. Federation Church women are taking orders for the 1970 community calendar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Federated Church
Edward Hempel
Federation Church
Board of Health Plans Eviction of 12 Families
The Adams Board of Health through Town Counsel Andrew J. Dilk will issue eviction orders to the 12 remaining families in the AEF Columbia Street block. The families have until June to vacate the tenement, condemned last July as unfit for habitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Goodermore
Bombardier
Joseph Banas
North Adams
Banas
Adams
Hospital Occupancy Down Spurs Advisory Group Talk
Adams trustees considered forming a temporary advisory panel of prominent residents to guide Plunkett Memorial Hospital over the next five years. Occupancy fell to 49.1 percent through November, with fears of a possible $100,000 town appropriation if trends continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McAndrews
Plunkett
Woodrow Cummings
Myles Schwartz
Cummings
Schwartz
Benedict Polak
Caucus Sets Up Four Contests in Town Election
Washington citizens caucus at Washington School nominated candidates for four offices for the Feb 14 town election. Incumbents Lorraine Dean and Marguerite Schulze faced combined opposition in clerk treasurer and tax collector races respectively, with Adams Furlong and other nominees listed. Voting hours Feb 14 noon to 6 pm and a business meeting at 8 pm. Registration Jan 24 at Stone House Road home of Town Clerk Deane from noon to 10 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Citizens’ Caucus
Lorraine Dean
Ronald Adams
David Furlong
Terry H. Willis
Marguerite E. Schulze
Elmer-Allen
Richard J. Hurley
Alexander G. Jarvie
Selectman
Hurley
Kendall BE. van Blarcom
Schulze
Douglas Poland
J Joseph S. Slater
Probate citations and dog restraining order in Berkshire
Notices from Berkshire Probate Court announce estate actions for Harold Meacham and Lewis Armsey with hearings in Pittsfield in 1970, appointing executors and addressing objections. Also a Division of Fisheries and Game dog restraint order bans dogs running at large across multiple Massachusetts counties to protect deer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commonwealth OF Massachusetts
Berkshire
Harold Meacham
Harold E. Meacham
Pittsfield
Helen M. Rhoades
Lincoln S. Cain
Pitts
Field
Pitsties
F. Anthony Hanlon
Esquire
James W. Carolan
Register
Cain
Hibbard & Myers
North St
Mass
Lewis E. Armsey
Dalton Insaid
Almen XK. Lincoln
Lois W. Lincoln
Essex
Franklin Mameden
Hampshire
Middlesex
Worcester
James M. Shepard
Classifieds Merge Lost and Found and Public Notices
Multiple small items show lost pets and found dogs with descriptions and contact numbers, plus legal and bid notices from Massachusetts agencies. Includes lost spayed female cat, found calico cat, male dogs, beagle, and a bank passbook lost in Berkshire area. also notices from Massachusetts Department of Public Works and Adams Cheshire Regional School District about bids and pre-bid conference details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lasseen
Berkshire Farm
Canaan
N.Y
Cedar St
Pittsfield
Long-Pond Road
Barr Ington
Great Barrington
New Ashford
Williamstown
Jason Street
Massachusetts
Department OF Public Works
Nashua Street
Boston
Conraingineer
Massachusetts Department of Public Works
District 4 Administration Building
Appleton Stat Route 2
Adlagton
Mass
Edward J. Ribes
Commissioner of Public Works
Adamscheshire
Super Intendent of Schools
Administr
Tve
Rie
Plainfield Stage
Adams
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Ralph Conroy
Lenox National Bank
Lenox Tel
Loeb’s
Foodtown
Lenox, Mass
the Eagle’s South Berkshire Bureau
Lee, Lenoxdale
Tyringham
West Becket
The
Eagle’s South Berkshire Bureau
Donald Cummings
Johnson Road
Dalton Finance Committee
Eagle
H. Stuart Parris
Carson Ave
Finance Committee
Legion Post 155
Legion Home
Ai Ieme
Food Warehouse
Dalton Police
American Legion
Welfare Depot
Keresey, Panzeri
Cbetlile
Berkshire Plaza
Ioyce Meier
Anne Louise Millettel
Board of Health Plans
Pittsfield General
Joyce Meier
Windsor
the Eagle
County Desk
Berkshire Eagle
aAdy
Eleanor F. Roberts
Flynn Raxall
Elm Street
Adams-Cheshire
Digitiat Committee
c/a
Tlé
Plaiffield Stege
GT. Plunkett Junior High
Commercial Street
Rolland G. Duval
Schoois
Berkshire Bank & Trust Company
William J. Roy
Stockbridge, Mass
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