Land clearing begins for $500,000 nursing home
Great Barrington plans a 500000 dollar Woodlands nursing home on the former Heady property off Christian Hill Road. Berkshire Hills Nursing Home operates in Monterey and will occupy the new facility after six to eight months of construction. The project includes sewer line extensions about 5000 feet, a buffer of trees along the road, and parking at front and rear.
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Great Barrington
Christian Hill Road
Willswood Nursing Home, Inc
Roy Hare
Lenox
Berkshire Hills Nursing Home
Monterey
Hare
Golf Club Opens Today in Great Barrington
The Great Barrington Golf Club opens today after a rain delayed start last Saturday. Also listed are community notices including dances at St Peter's Center and South Egremont Club, bid notices for water mains, and local classified ads for rentals services and jobs in the Great Barrington area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Barrington
Great Barrington Golf Club
South Egremont Club
Villoné Group
Adv
Monterey student accepted at Simmons College for pre medical studies
Suzanne O Connell daughter of Mr and Mrs Eugene W OConnell of Monterey has been accepted at Simmons College to pursue a pre medical program. She is a Mt. Everett Regional senior secretary of student council business manager of the yearbook captain of the girls Augrigan Bowl Team chairman of the graduation committee and a National Honor Society band and Philosophy Club member. The Rev and Mrs Virgil V Brallier and family returned from Florida vacation. Mrs Louise Hall returned to Putney VI after two weeks with her mother Mrs Ida Hall. Mr and Mrs Alfred W Molle returned from California after four months away. Mr and Mrs Paul Thorn and family visited Sarasota Fla with Mr and Mrs William M Parker. The Thorns flew home Monday. Mr and Mrs F W Brown and sister Mrs Gordon Burhans returned after six months in St Petersburg Fla.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monterey
Suzanne O'Connell
Eugene W. O’connell
Simmons College
Mt. Everett
Virgil V. Brallier
Florida
Louise Hall
Putney
Ida Hall
Richard Lowe
Alfred W. Molle
California
Paul Thorn
Sarasota
Fla
William M. Parker
Thorns
F. W. Brown
Gordon Burhans
St. Petersburg
Barrington Officers Test Breathalyzer In Beer Session
A Barrington Police Association member who drank nine beers in three hours scored .05 on a breathalyzer Thursday night. Another member with the same pattern scored OF. The test used the department's new breathalyzer as police chiefs from South Berkshire watched the demonstration.
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Great Barrington
Barrington Police Association
Po Ice Department
South Berkshire
Town Meeting Sets Firehouse Vote in Sandisfield
A special Sandisfield town meeting is scheduled for June 4 at Town Hall to consider a 1966 warrant article on expenditure of a $4349 forest fire reimbursement for a new firehouse at Route 57 and New Hartford Road. Topics include site, size, ownership, and maintenance obligations, with the old firehouse on Route 8 potentially abandoned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandisfield
David A. Kelley
Route
New Hartford Road
Fire Department
Route 57
West Stockbridge Grange hosts good Grangers night
West Stockbridge Grange 246 invites the public to a Monday Grange Hall gathering with a casserole supper at 6 30 and a regular meeting at 8. Members are urged to bring casseroles. The Grange also sponsors a products party on Friday May 16 at 8 p m to benefit the chapter with prizes and refreshments. Selectmen appoint Thomas K Tolmic to Parks and Recreation Committee replacing Robert Korte who resigned.
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West Stockbridge
Grange
Thomas K. Tolmic
Maple Street
Parks and Recreation Committee
Robert Korte
DNR Head To Attend Annual Watershed Association Dinner
Arthur W. Brownell the state Department of Natural Resources commissioner will join the Westfield River Watershed Association annual dinner at Tonelli's Little River Inn in Westfisia. Also invited are Westfield Mayor John J. Palczynski and Mrs. Palczynski. Brownell will attend social hour from 6 to 7 PM to meet members and friends.
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Huntington
Arthur W. Brownell
State Department of Natural Resources
Westfield River Watershed Association
Tonelli
Little River Inn
Westfisia
Westfield
John J. Palczynski
Palczynski
Brownell
Association
Canaan VA PVA elects new post commander and concert set
In Canaan Connecticut Anherst Eaton was elected commander of Couch-Pipa Post 6851 Veterans of Foreign Wars. New officers include Eben Condon Morris Spadaccini and Charles Vanicky with Deferari Jr as chaplain and others. A joint post and auxiliary installation is planned for May 20. A public concert at East Canaan Congregational Church features Alan and Janet Storrs with Scott Stanton and Claire Leffingwell, joined by guest choirs from Pittsfield and Pilgrim Church, followed by a reception.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canaan
Conn
Anherst Eaton
Couch-Pipa
Joseph Deferari Jr
Eben Condon
Morris Spadaccini
Charles Vanicky
Alan Storrs
Rupert Mallach
John F. Bianchi
Ivan Couch
Fred Giulian
Couch
Condon
John Byron
Spadaccini
Victor Phifield
Sam Stanton
Wanicky
Storrs
Byron
Deferar
Joseph Fraser
Stanton
Phifield
Vanicky
Canaan, Conn
East Canaan Congregational Church
Alicia
Alan) Storrs
Janet Storrs
Pilgrim Congregational Church
Storrses
Scott Stanton
Claire Leffingwell
Mental Health Drive Planned By Northwestern Conn Group
Mrs Florence Hunter and Mrs Eugene Freund chair a local campaign for the Mental Health Association of Northwestern Conn on National Mental Health Day Monday. Bell ringers will canvass Cana an to collect contributions for the volunteer group aiding the mentally ill through service and research. The local association links with state and national mental health bodies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canaan
Conn
Florence Hunter
Eugene Freund
Mental Health Association of
Northwestern Conn
Bell Ringers
The
Conn. Association For Mental Health
National Association For Mental Health
Sheffield DNR Survey To Begin Near Sheffield
Sheffield will start a natural resources survey within two weeks. Eugene Moran, district wildlife manager from the DNR, told the garden club about the planned field work. The survey, announced in January, will examine sites including town parks on Baw Wow road Barnard Memorial Pine Knoll parks and land off Hulett road. The plan covers a 121 acre state park site near route 7A and the Housatonic River Ramapo road area. Moran described wildlife projects such as snowshoe hares imported from New Brunswick the Belchertown fish hatchery and wild turkeys. Deer numbers have risen locally until this year when dogs killed many.
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Sheffield
Eugene Moran
Department of Natural Resources
DNR
Garden Club
Natural Resources Advisory
Moran
Baw Wow Road
Barnard Memorial
Pine Knoll
Hulett Road
Hinsdale Mothers Day Gift Ideas
Hinsdale merchants feature a Mother’s Day display with wooden salad bowls and pewterware. Peeples Choice offers gift options, with contact via 635-2643 as advertised.
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Mothers Day
Peeples Choice
Menus for Week at Middlefield Cafeteria
Menu list for Middlefield shows daily meals from Monday to Friday. Items include juices, meats, vegetables, breads, fruit and desserts with specific dishes such as pork and gravy, American chop suey, roast turkey, chicken noodle soup, tuna salad sandwiches and assorted sides.
Area Fairs Assn To Meet May 13
Middlefield The Western Massachusetts Fairs Association annual meeting is set for Monday evening May 13 at the Hampden County Improvement League building in West Springfield. A 7 PM roast beef dinner requires Tuesday reservations. Guests include Commissioner Nathan Chandler and E Gerry Mansfield. George Jones will speak on It s a Good Thing Cows Do Fly. Door prizes follow the program. Charles E Cook is on the committee. Middlefield Grange officers rehearse for first and second degrees Tuesday at 8 PM.
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Middlefield
Western Massachusetts Fairs’ Association
Hampden County Improvement League
West Springfield
League
Augusta Dee Whitman
Hancock
Nathan Chandler
E. Gerry Mansfield
State Division of Fairs
George Jones
Eastern Massachusetts Fairs’ Association
Charles E. Cook
Navy's MecNallen Sets Passing Record At Academy
Sets Aerial Mark Mike MecNallen, Navy's sophomore quarterback, set a Naval Academy record last season by passing 280 times. This was 49 more passes than attempted by John Cartwright in 1967.
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Mike MecNallen
Navy
Naval Academy
John Cartwright
Kindergarten Hosts Five Foot Boa at Stockbridge School
A five foot boa owned by Robert N. Faber of Interlaken visited Stockbridge Plain School in Mrs Ann Larkins class on Friday. Pupils touched the wriggling guest after the owner explained its habits. Faber says the snake makes a wonderful pet and costs less upkeep than a dog or cat. It feeds on live mice and last ate two months ago.
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Doane Hulick
Robert Faber
Interlaken
Ann Larkin
Plain School
Stockbridge
Robert N. Faber
Stockbridge Plain School
Boa
Faber
Springfield
White Fearless
Ford recalls 6900 cars and 88000 trucks nationwide
Ford Motor Co says it recalls about 88 700 1969 Econoline vans and F100 through F750 trucks for inspection of possible door latch and accelerator cable defects. Up to 6 000 units may have defective right door latches or Econoline cargo latches. A subset of 198 model year F600 and F6000 trucks may have incorrect front wheel bearings, with up to 21 units affected. Also 6 896 Ford cars with 302 to 390 cubic inch engines built at Wayne are asked to return for accelerator cable replacement due to improper wire cores that may bind in cold weather.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Wayne Assembly
FDA Orders Label Warning On Antibiotic Use
The FDA ordered two manufacturers of novobiotin to limit claims and add warnings to the label within 30 days. Warnings include serious side effects such as anemia skin eruptions injection-site pain and in rare cases death. New stocks must be relabeled though existing stock is not recalled. The drug is used against bacterial infections and urinary tract infections when penicillin is impractical.
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Washington
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Connecticut Plan To Reimburse Parents Loses Ground
The Education Committee rejected a state reimburse parents plan for nonpublic school pupils but explored a purchase of services approach including funds for nonreligious courses and teachers. Suburban lawmakers blocked a regional housing authority bill while debating Hartford’s growth. A Judiciary panel backed a bill allowing licensed professionals to incorporate for tax and benefit advantages, with limits on activities and potential employee plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Judiciary Committee
Hartford MLK Day Bill Passes Unanimously in House
A bill to proclaim January 15 as Martin Luther King Day cleared the Connecticut House without opposition. It calls for public school observances on the civil rights leader's birthday as legislators laud Dr King’s dedication to equality and human rights. The same session reports note Black enrollment at state community colleges reaching 20 percent at South Central New Haven and only about 0.3 percent at Northwestern Connecticut, with a total college enrollment of 772. A 1914 YMCA building in Hartford is slated for demolition by 1970 to make way for a $6 million replacement attached to the PE building, funded by gifts endowments and mortgages.
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Hartford
Dr. King
Chronicle of Higher Education
South Central Community College
New Haven
Connecticut
Winsted
YMCA
State officials tackle alleged abuse at Fairfield Hills Hospital
Hartford AP report says 36 Fairfield Hills Hospital workers petitioned Gov. Dempsey with eight abuse cases at the Newtown state mental institution. Commissioner Wilfred Bloomberg pledged probe after two prior complaints were deemed unfounded. Archbishop Whealon welcomed Vatican changes to the Roman Missal set to take effect Nov 30.
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Hartford
Wilfred Bloomberg
Newtown
Fairfield Hills
John Dempsey
State Capitol
Bloomberg
John F. Whealon
Vatican
Whealon
Williams College buys three properties at Spring Street
In Williamstown Williams College buys a business building and three houses at the foot of Spring Street for investment with leases continuing. Properties will stay on town tax rolls as not educational uses. NAHA veteran housing plan promises about 300000 windfall for North Adams once units sold.
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Williamstown
Spring Street
Williams College
Charles A. Foehl Jr
Williams Today
Williams
Vassar
Nortit Adams
North Adams
North Adams Housing Authority
NAHA
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St. Peter’s Center
Prudential Committee
Great Barrington Fire District
P.m
Water Dept
Castle Street
Emilia J. Magadini
Advy
P.O. Box
Gt. Barrington
Tom
Dempsey's
Fair View Hospital
Baldwin
Taft Farm
Rte
Barrington
Delmolino’s & Mielke Lawn Mower Sales & Service
Firestone Tire Center
Bill's Pharmacy
Main Street
John B. Hull, Inc
Main St
H. J. Terwilliger
Melvin's Phey
Mimieux
Jones
Charly
Beatrice Phillips
Miss O'Connell
Simmons
Melvin’s Pharmacy
Melvin J. Katsh
Reg. Pharm
Cecil
Mayme Mahood
Catskill Materials Corp
John J. Hudson Co
Granville School
Elsie P. Argenta
Converse Pease
Mr. Pease
Herman B. Pease
Chester
Morris I. Singer
Dorothy Tolmie
Watershed Assn
Moss Claire Lefpingwell
Eaton
VFW Post
Canaan Church
Price Memorial Ame Zion
Pittsfield
Mass
Fanny Cooper
Hinsdale
Area Fairs’ Assn
Middlefield Grange
City Hartford
House
Norvis O'Neill
Bill
North Berkshire
North Adams State College
Venable Hall
Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams
Joan M. Morayiec
Adams
N. Adams
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