Rezoning Plan Backed for State Road Area
Great Barrington Planning Board votes to rezone a parcel on State Road from residential to business, with a stipulation that land owned by Mrs. William Gillette and Mrs. Horace Turner stay residential until sold. Louis Levine seeks the change, McDonald’s owner interest noted, neighbors worry about tax revaluation and frontage limits. Town meeting vote with two thirds needed.
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Great Barrington
State Road
William Gillette
Horace A.turner
William P. Murtagh
Louis Levine
Levine
McDonald Corporation
Gillette
Turner
Planning Board
Francis B. Mahoney
Mooney Named To Law Review
F Anthony Mooney of 241 Cottage St has been appointed to the Boston College Industrial and Commercial Law Review staff, described as a high honor by the law school. A second year student, his article on holder in due course will appear this year, and another on commercial leasing will feature in The Annual Survey of Massachusetts Law. Social Security representatives visit Great Barrington Post Office on Thursday Nov 20 between 10 am and noon due to Thanksgiving.
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Great Barrington
F. Anthony Mooney
William H. Mooney
Cottage St
Boston College Industrial and Commercial Law Review
Law ReView
Boston College Law School
Law School
The
Annual Survey of
Massachusetts Law
Social Security
Great Barrington Post Office
Community Fund Reaches Forty Percent Of Goal
The Southern Berkshire Community Fund reports $34,670 raised toward a $48,500 target. Treasurer John J. Dakin lists town totals: Alfred $929.75 Ashley Fails $164 Egremont $1,869 Great Barrington $17,360.20 Housatonic $3,869.50 Monterey $993 New Marlboro $1,195 Sheffield $3,123 Stockbridge $4,727 West Stockbridge $530 plus a $1,700 Pittsfield GE gift and a $10 miscellaneous gift. Contributions by type: general $6,526.70 corporate $7,285 individual $3,007.79 and special $17,750.
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Great Barrington
Southern
Women’s Guild Fellowship Supper At First Church
The Women’s Guild of the First Congregational Church will sponsor a fellowship supper Friday at 6 0. Douglas Whitbeck of Great Barrington a Roch ester Institute of Technology graduate will show slides. He spent 17 months in Vietnam as a courier with cameras, sharing photographs of sites and people. Attendees should bring covered dishes. the public is welcome.
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Great Barrington
Women’s Guild
The
First Congregational Church
Douglas Whitbeck
Rochester N.Y
Lucien Aigner Film To Be on Television
Lucien Aigner will broadcast his documentary Hong Kong Breakthrough on WNAC Channel 8 New Haven Tuesday at 12 30 p m The Way Out show with Connecticut Council of Churches sponsors this telecast Dr David Weinland pastor of United Church on the Green temporarily altered the program to air the film Aigner a photographer and writer lives on Dresser Avenue S Sgt and Mrs David W Meaney welcomed a daughter Heather Rachel born Wednesday at Fitzsimmons General Hospital in Denver Grandparents are Dean Wright Washington D C and Francis Meaney Highland Drive Great grandparents are Robert Brow Dalton Dr Raymond R Brinker attended the New England Chiropractic Council convention in Bedford NH See TOM at Dempsey Tire Center for tires 24 Double TV stamps this week on Buzza Cardozo boxed Christmas cards Bill's Pharmacy adv.
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Great Barrington
Hong Kong
Lucien Aigner
Frank Laubach
WNAC
Channel 8
New Haven
Conn
Connecticut Council of Churches
David Weinland
United Church On the Green
David W. Meaney
Heather Rachel
Fitzsimmons General Hospital
Denver
Cole
Dean Wright
Washington, D.C
Francis Meaney
Highland Drive
Robert Brow
Dalton
Raymond R. Brinker
New England Chiropractic Council
Bedford
Adams-Cheshire Regional Parents Night at Adams Memorial HS
Tonight at 7 Adams Memorial High School hosts Parents Night with schedules shown in the auditorium and a shortened day followed. Teachers will present curriculum content course objectives and class procedures in each classroom. Appointment forms for future meetings with specific teachers will be available in each room.
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Adams Memorial High School
Adams Selectmen Schedule Town Meeting for GE Strikers Aid
Adams last night called a special town meeting for December 8 aimed at funding for GE strikers. Veterans Agent Catherine Carlow seeks 5000 to meet needs of applicants, with about 50 steady applications since November 7. North Berkshire estimates about 690 GE workers. Adams bears the brunt. Also on the warrant a 2000 transfer for sewage plant bonds and 4000 for highway repairs and fuel. Possible referendum to elect School Committee. petition with 1600 signatures submitted for verification. 636 needed.
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Adams
Catherine Carlow
North Berkshire
North Adams
Adele Wade
Highway Department
Edward J. Meczywer
I. Audrey Scully
Meczywor
Andrew J. Dilk
Capital Outlays for Next Six Years Seen Not Increasing Tax Rate
A town capital outlay committee reports that planned expenditures over six years should not raise taxes. The 1970 capital tax rate is projected at $13, with fluctuations only up to 30 cents through 1975. The plan differs from Herr Associates mainly on landfill and recreation funding, with landfill set at 40,000 for 1971 and recreation funding largely reduced for 1970 71. The group emphasizes ongoing revision of estimates and potential future conservation needs while pursuing a master recreation plan and future school construction. Members include Kelley Wing Blanchette Burnett Kopee Welch.
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Philip B. Herr Associates
Herr
Kelley
Park Commission
Bowe Fields
Wing
Donald c. Blanchette
Alfred Burnett
Frank P. Kopee
Charles J. Welch
New Marlboro Card of Thanks from Ruth Stevens
Ruth Stevens expresses sincere thanks to her family neighbors and friends for their kindnesses during her stay at Pittsfield Medical Center.
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Pittsfield Medical Center
Ruth Stevens
Portraits by Ammi Phillips on loan to Stockbridge Library
Two portraits by Ammi Phillips are on display in the Stockbridge Library Historical Room. They are on loan from Edith P. Brown estate, a West Stockbridge resident who died in 1968 and was a descendant of the subjects Perry Green Comstock and his wife Margaret. Phillips, born 1783, died 1865 and is known as the Border Limner. He painted in the Berkshires early in his career before moving to Curtisville, now Interlaken.
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Stockbridge
Ammi Phillips
Harold C. Pierce Jr
Edith P. Brown
West Stockbridge
Perry Green Comstock
Margaret
Berkshires
Curtisville
Interlaken
Berkshire in Pictures and Verses at Interlaken Church
William P. Uhler Jr. presents Berkshire in Pictures and Verses at the Congregational Church of Interlaken Monday at 8 p.m. The program features black and white photographs of local scenes painted in oils, with descriptive verses written by Uhler. Exhibited previously in Lee, Lenox, Great Barrington, and Stockbridge. Admission is free.
Lenox to consider first major zoning revision since 1954
Lenox plans a nine district zoning map and a revised bylaw to be voted by two-thirds at the December 12 special town meeting. The plan includes new residential districts, widened business zones, open space rules, and apartments limited to specific districts with special permits. A formal hearing Dec 5 precedes the final decision.
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Lenox
Planning Board
T Tme
Zoning Board of Appeals
Buard
Paul H. Brown
Lenox Dale
Housatonic Street
Housatonic River
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Brown
Lebanon Valley Lions hear on inland navigation buoys
George O Sedgwick of Berlin spoke at the Lebanon Valley Lions Club meeting on inland navigation. He described fathometer surveys to place buoys on Lake George and the 473 buoys installed last summer. Lighted buoys cost about 110 dollars each and the inlet is the head of navigation for red and black buoy placement. Etteh A Wilson announced the Christmas party for Dec 19 at the Old Chatham House and directors will meet next Monday at Town Hall. New Lebanon foreman Stephen H Stouter appointed for the DOT Lebanon Springs division. he has 33 years in the department and is a World War I veteran. A Woman's Club luncheon features a scarf-fun demonstration by Mrs. John T Lawson at Friendship House.
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Lebanon
N.Y
Berlin
State Conservation Department
Waterways Division
Lebanon Valley Lions Club
Shaker Mil Farm
Lake George
Etteh A. Wilson
Chatham House
New Lebanon
Stephen H. Stouter
Lebanon Springs
State Department of Transportation
Department
Chatham Division
American Legion
William B. Black
New Lebanon Names Cubmaster Gallombardo At Pack 116
A Darrow School faculty member, Angelo A. Gallombardo, becomes cubmaster of Pack 116. Pack sponsor is Mc Innis Adjustment & Appraisal Service. A committee meeting is set for Tuesday at 7 p.m. at New Lebanon Central School, with the pack meeting on Nov 25 at 7:15 p.m. in the Darrow dairy barn common room. Den mothers are Mrs. Donald L. Farrell, Mrs. Judith Tieman, and Mrs. C. M. Frambach Jr.
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New Lebanon
Angelo A. Gallombardo
Darrow School
McInnis Adjustment & Appraisal Service, Inc
New Lebanon Central School
Dairy Barn
Darrow
Donald L. Farrell
Judith Tieman
C. M. Frambach Jr
Weight Watchers Plan Fashion Show in New Lebanon
The Weight Watchers Club will stage a before and after fashion show on November 24 at 8 p.m. at the Congregational Church in New Lebanon. The club meets there every Monday at 8. Weight watchers who have lost weight are invited to participate. for more information contact Louise Sutherland.
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New Lebanon
Louise Sutherland
Cheshire Town Meeting Next Tuesday
Cheshire selects residents reminded of a special town meeting set for Tuesday at the Cheshire School. Article 4 seeks approval of the Selectmen’s unanimous Nov 4 action to purchase all assets of the Cheshire Water Co for up to 150000 dollars. Other articles authorize road funds and equipment purchases. Registration of voters is Saturday noon to 10 pm at Town Hall.
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Cheshire
Down
Cheshire Water Co
Lenox Fr Nabity Receives M A Degree
The Rev. Walter Nabity, professor of Speech drama and debate at the Im maculate Heart of Mary Seminary, earned a master of arts in Speech and rhetoric from Emerson College Boston. Born in Central City Nebraska he studied at Sacred Heart Monastery Hales Corners Wisconsin. After ordination he did postgraduate work in biology at Catholic University and in education and psychology at Columbia University before joining Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1963.
Lenox Town Officials Holiday Party Dec 6
Lenox hosts annual Christmas party for town officials and employees on Saturday December 6 at 6 30 PM at the Community Center. Social hour precedes a ham and turkey buffet dinner and dancing. Tickets due by November 26 at the selectmen or town clerk offices. Cub Scout Pack 55 selling candy door to door through November 22 to cover pack costs. Holiday Barricini chocolates open daily Sunday afternoons at Garden Gable Gift Shop Main Street Lenox.
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Cub
Barricini Chocolates
Garden Gable
Main St
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