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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1969
Page
10
In a Richmond joint session, the School Committee and Building Committee leaned against constructing a new school. They favored remodeling or expansion based on a questionnaire and administration enrollment projection showing no rising trend. The meeting produced no formal decision, noting enrollment is likely to stay flat or decline.
Adams notices list Anne Louise Millet contact details amid town budget items. Highway Department seeks 4000 dollars from reserve funds to cover January February and March oil heat and repairs along with 3600 for bills and unforeseen maintenance. selectmen will discuss reductions.
The Rev Timothy J Champoux and Bishop Christopher J Weldon donate two acres of church land opposite Adams Memorial High School to Adams Housing Authority for a housing for the elderly project. The AHA will pay a token $1 fee. land valued above $30 000. The site receives state preliminary approval for two-story buildings with up to 60 housing units.
An interracial group in Canaan plans a November 29 dance at the Mohawk Ski Lodge to raise money for the scholarship fund. Last year’s event netted nearly $1,500. Mrs. Nixe ring Miles of Torrington returns as chairman. Tickets through November 15 in Canaan from Earl Long. Purvis Henson band to provide music.
LIME ROCK Conn Charles E McCarroll director of casework for the Episcopal Social Service Agency of the Diocese of Connecticut will address the women's auxiliary of Trinity Church Wednesday at 2 Drug addiction illegitimacy marital discord and various problems of youth are handled by the agency He will cite cases their treatment using social work psychiatry and psychology and the results obtained He will also explain how the agency can help with similar problems in local parishes Public invited.
Alan L. Marden 27 will replace Atty James W. Lilly as executive director of the North Adams Redevelopment Authority effective Dec 15. Lilly becomes deputy director and Joseph A. Nuvallie will be assistant to the director. Marden to be paid 15000 yearly. Lilly 11000 and Nuvallie 8000 remain at current levels. Department of Housing and Urban Development verbally approves Marden appointment. Marden sees no conflict with Chamber ties and North Adams Futures. Marden and Nancy Jane Bianco, daughter of mayor elect Bianco, to marry Nov 22.
NORTH ADAMS officials will begin a survey Monday of the Cascade waterfall area to be made a city park. County Engineer William A. Heaphy leads the survey, which aims to support city acquisition and potential federal funding covering about 75 percent of costs.
Williams College volunteers, numbering at least 100 students, will assist the town with constructive projects tied to the November Vietnam Moratorium. They will propose project ideas later and focus on areas neglected by the war, including Green River bank cleanups, Pine Cobble trail cleanup for picnics, and work at Margaret Lindley Park. Town Manager J Elwood Lamphear urged each student to donate a pint of blood for a local blood bank.
Williams College environment chief Dr. Andrew J. Scheffey will join national event in San Francisco this November under UNESCO commission sponsorship. About 500 specialists and related professionals are expected, with Arthur Godfrey and anthropologist Margaret Mead among speakers.
Massachusetts reports Greenfield officials backing a land campaign to replace the burned last covered bridge, cost estimated at 100000 dollars. Amherst votes to study rent controls, Chicopee Planning Board weighs banning new gas stations within 1250 feet of existing ones. Amherst Quaker group plans Nov border crossing to Canada to ship medical supplies to Vietnam victims, despite federal restrictions.
Springfield AP reports police to patrol Technical High School after a racial flare up. Principal Donald Gifford was summoned to the lunch room as fighting erupted, and the school closed shortly after. Groundbreaking ceremonies for Greenfield Community College campus were held in Greenfield Meadows on Wednesday for a $12 million project.
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