Local race staged by Lenox school building committees
South Berkshire Weekly reports a tug of progress between the Lenox School Building Committee and the Lenox regional study committee in a prolonged effort to secure funding and approval for a new school. The four-town regional effort finally forms, with winds of support from the School Building Assistance Commission, as the trophy remains the prize. The Build ing Committee races ahead with a plan to rush to the ear.
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Lenox School Building Committee
Lenox Regional Study Committee
State School Building Assistance Commission
Lenox
School Building Assistance Commission
SBAC
Coun
Berkshire County
Race for a School Advantage Shapes Five Week Window
The region plans to sign a school contract within five weeks using new bids due March 18. If approved, funds may cover the gap to complete the project, with potential $80,000 cost cuts from revised specs. The regional and Lenox committees maneuver to delay signing and seek SBAC support while pursuing a possible four town agreement and May vote.
Pay-Raise Deadlock in Pittsfield City Hall
Berkshire Week in Review reports a veto threat as Mayor Dillon blocks piecemeal raises. Police and fire mediate, eight votes needed to pass the $105,800 package. council may reconvene, or wait until March 23. Also: regional planning for four towns, airport upgrades, GE plant expansion, a Route 20 crash with three dead, and local union election campaigning.
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Pittsfield
Dillon
Salary Survey Commission
Adams Faces Youth Rise in Town Government
Young Adams leaders win key posts in a shift from the long‑standing Old Guard. Donald Sommer, 30, elected School Committee chair, and McBride, 32, youngest selectman, join Gerald Callahan and Mervin Winberg in a new middle‑aged leadership alongside 75‑year veteran Walter Donovan. Residents debate reforms as redevelopment and zoning plans aim to modernize Adams while addressing taxes and schools.
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Adams
Young Selectman
Young Turks and
All That
Old Guard
Walter J. Donovan
Merton S. Anthony
Donovan
Selectman
Fred Dabrowski
Ewart D
Cal) Callahan
Mervin Wineberg
Manna
Mt. Greylock
North
Adas
Donald R. Sommer
Redevelopment Authority
Sommer
Edward M. Kuipa
Kulpa
Donald C. Blanchette
McBride
McCann Committee
Pittsfield
Dalton
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Lenox Committee
Lenox Regional Committee
Berkshire Week In Review
General Electric Co
Pitts Field
Berkshire
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Frederick P. Jones Jr
New West St
Clement Barrows
East Street
Richard Mayberry
Maple &J., Lee
St. Luke’s Hospital
Inez Jones
JU Local 255
Joseph J. LaCasse
Nelly B
Wilkinson
Orville
Lanesboro Wilson
Cart H
Williamstown
Winters
Phoebe D
Gt. Barr
Wood
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Stephentown
Albert I. Litano
Allegance
James B. Carey
IUE
Chester
George S. Miller
Woodrow Black
Dominick Piergiovanni
Antonio Piergiovanni
Shirley Wheeler
Sandisfield
Cecil H. Mahood
George T. Lundgren
Sheffield
Richard M. Boardman
Board of Selectmen
Brury High
North Adams
Chicopee Comprehensive
Adams High
Springfield Tech
St. Joseph’s High
North Berkshire Weekly
By Richard Rogin
Anthony P. McBride
Lauria J. King
Northern Berkshire Regional School District
Great Barrington
John P. Lynch
Harvard University
Jane TD. Shanahan
South Egremont
Syracuse University
Volpe
Winthrop E. Brielman
Board of Registration of Veterinary Medicine
Joseph BE. Ryan
Berkshire Life Insurance Co
Walter C. O’connell
Groton
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Hinsdale
Arnold J. Buckley
Donald Cornwell
Lions Club
Doreen Dill
Waheonah Regional High School
DAR Good Citizen
Patty Novelly
Congregation Knesses Israel
Teachers’ Institute
Seminary College of Jewish Studies
Columbia University School’ of General Studies
Thomas McNeil
David Lee Ingram
Pitt
Rolland G. Duval
Anzio
Tyler St
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Fur Xour
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Royal Cleaners
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ROYAL
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North Street
Lee, Lenox
Cheshire
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