Two Vocation Paths Split South County Education Debate
In Great Barrington a clash over vocational education pits comprehensive high school proposals against regional vocational tech options. Berkshire Hills Regional School District supports a broad program while Lee officials push for a regional school. A subcommittee was formed to study the issue as Monument Mountain High adds electronics and automotive tracks pending state approval.
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Great Barrington
South County
George P. Lane
Berkshire Hills
Maurice J. Boulanger
Lee
Lane
Monument Mountain
Mt. Everett
Everett
Boulanger
State Bureau of Vocational Education
Borman Named Space Station Program Chief
Air Force Cal. Frank Borman, commander of the Christmastime lunar flight, is named field director of NASA Space Station task force. He will study establishing orbiting laboratories where scientists could work in space for months as NASA plans the era after the moon landing set for July.
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Earth
Orbiting Laboratories
NASA
Berkshire Week in Review Capital budget and labor strikes in Berkshire area
May 4 20 Berkshire Week in Review notes a 2 681 500 capital budget for 1969 to largely buy a new library building with other items including fire station land water mains and school planning While polls show council support for a library bond unlikely the laborers strike nears 40 days with $20 million in stalled projects Also plans for a 3 72 million school district expansion in Dalton and area and a Berksh ire Community College campus funding shift are outlined plus local political and civic notices and obituaries
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Pittsfield
West Pittsfield
Central Berkshire
Dalton
Craneville
Wahconah
Berkshire Community College
West Street
Boston
BCC
Thomas E. O’connell
State Bureau of Building Construction
Adams-Cheshire talks extend unsure. first-year pay set
Negotiations between the Adams-Cheshire Educational Association and the Adams-Cheshire Regional School Committee are stalled until next fall at the earliest with first-year teacher contracts ranging from 6200 to 12000 dollars. The article notes potential public access to proposals during private bargaining and calls for transparent interim steps to reassure taxpayers.
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Adams
Teachers' Association
Adams-Cheshire
Richard K. Weil
Eagle
Pittsfield
Adams-Cheshire Committee
Housac Valley High School
Quotes on provocation and protest in political discourse
A J P Taylor argues Attila would have stayed peaceful in Asia if Rome had not offended him by luxury. Edward M Brooke defends protest but rejects violence and school takeovers, asserting that everything is negotiable.
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Attila
Asia
A. J. P. Taylor
New York Review of Books
Edward M. Brooke
R-Mass
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Jezen Reg
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Carnute’s Diner
Sreyyt
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Sey
Borman
Space Station’ Program
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SUN
Larry Pieros
Ph. & Sat
TURK
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Berkshire Week In Review
Berkshires
Teachers Association
Winifred Bell
Williamstown
State Department of Public Works
Penn Central
Selkirk
N.Y
State Line
Harold Hutchins
Pittsfield General Hospital
St. Luke’s Hospital
Berkshire Medical Center
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Harry F. Nichols
North End
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Pittsfield Exchange Club
Barbara Yuncker
New York City
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New York Post
Pueblo
James A. Shepard
Wilfred “May Mitchcock
Windsor
Arthur Needham
Charles F. Johnson
Tyringham
Berkshire County Association of School Committees
Edward J. Plummer
Pittsfield High
Pittsfield Teachers Association
Eugene O’brien
Harold Keban
Liverpool
Hoosac Valley
Cheshire-Adams
Franklin Curtiss
Richard J. Kirchner
Sheffield
Earle C. Sutphen
Robert Kirvin
Pittsfield Park Commission
George J. Pellerin
Pittsfield Centre Lions Club
Peter de Moya
Annie
C DiCarlo
Amitio
Pittsfield Harris
Baniel
Pittafield
T. Edward
Lenox Parent
Craig A
Pittsfield Frovost
Arthur P
Cheshire St. Germain
Sadie E
Dalton Scullary
Samuel
Pittsflata Seguin
Clothaire J
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Pittsfield Starbuck
Amber A
Middlefield Witliamson
James Sr
Pittsfield Zavattaro
Joseph Sr
Pittsfiald
North Berkshire Weekly
Richard N. LeGrand
Jack Hughes
Adams-Cheshire Educational Association
Supt
Rolland G. Duval
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J. Norman O'Connor
Adams School Committee
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Andy Griffith
the Supremes
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Rome
Singer Sewing Center
Allendale Shopping Center
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Upstate New York
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Albany
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Grad
Berkshire
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Miendate Shopping Center
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