Cheshire Vissers Turkeys and Town Notices
Cheshire Vissers collected at the Rod and Gun Club for a Sunday turkey shoot with listed participants from Cheshire Hinsdale and Pittsfield. Cheshire Selectmen discuss Lake Shore Drive complaints about a non maintained road blade height and plan Wednesday review with Road Supt. Johnson. Swistakes Restaurant gets Sunday dancing license for Oct 10 with Oct 18 hearing on a Massachusetts Electric Co light post on Stafford Hill. Bids due next Monday for Farnams causeway culverts a Chapter 90 project. Lions Club meeting at Grange Hall tonight at 7 with a work bee after for the Fall Festival Oct 7 8 9. Mr and Mrs Machislaw Ciskowski and family attended the Dowsers Convention in Danville Vt over the weekend.
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Cheshire — Selectmen
Lake Shore Drive
Robert Johnson
Swistakes
Massachusetts Electric Co
Stafford Hill
Farnams Causeway
Johnson
Investigation Continues in Gasoline Thefts In Cheshire
Cheshire Police say the gasoline theft probe moves forward with two 18-year-olds in custody. Officers report further thefts tied to the arrests as they await court action and review by Probation Officer Marshall Potter. A stakeout at two fuel sites followed sightings of suspects with five gallon cans and siphoning gear.
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Cheshire
Machislaw Ciskowski
Marshall 0. Potter
Adams
Potter
the Eagle
Paul V. Berti
Cheshire-Adams Oil Co
Main Street
Bedard
Berti
Lanesboro MRS reports 150 girls registered for Scouting this year
Lanesboro MRS Jean McGowen announced that about 150 girls have registered for Scouting. Troops meet at the school 3 to 4 30 on various days with Brownie Troops 132 and 133, Junior Troops 289 301 472 and Cadet Troop 280 led by listed volunteers. New Berkshire Village unit 301 meets at American Legion Home Wednesdays. Cadet Troop 280 meets at St Luke's Church Thursdays at 7.
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Lanesboro
Frederick Marcoux
Town Gin
Laurence Brady
George McKay
Maurice Lyon
Joseph Stone
George Gleason
Sunshine
George Mathes
Albert Delisle
Glenn Frank
Henry Gallant
Berkshire Village
American Legion Home
Bruce Rogerson
Raymond Goerlach
Earl Waterman
Eugene Lyon
Waterman
Ocean St
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
Magazine Sales Begin by Pupils in Lanesboro
Fifth and sixth graders at the local school started a two week magazine sale under the Readers Digest plan. Proceeds fund uniforms for school teams and library books. Top seller wins a camera or tape recorder, with Monday’s top seller earning $5. PTA to host a folk trio Wednesday at 1 15. Irene Kossey Anthony Saletan and Happy Traum perform with auto sharp guitar fifth string banjo and guitar.
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Lanesboro
PTA
Irene Kossey
Anthony Saletan
Happy Traum
Selectmen Approve License Transfer for Hillcrest Inn
LANESBORO At Monday's meeting the selectmen approved transferring a seasonal alcoholic and year round beer and wine innholder's license to Thomas A Dowd of Connecticut from John E and Anne M Foley who sold the Hillcrest Inn on North Main Street to Dowd who plans to run a restaurant and bar. The board also granted permits for Sunday fire entertainment and dancing by Seecum Brook Club Inc for October 16 17 24 and 31. A building permit was issued to Enar Fundel for alterations to his porch and roof. Mrs Ada M Page was drawn for Superior Court traverse juror for the civil session to begin November 8.
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Lanesboro
Thomas A. Dowd
Connecticut
John E
Anne M. Foley
Hillcrest Inn
North Main Street
Dowd
Seecum Brook Club, Inc
Richmond Town To Buy New Dump Truck
A small group of voters at a town meeting approved an $8,000 transfer for the selectmen to purchase a new dump truck for the highway department. Around 20 attendees, mostly officials, also authorized selling or trading the 1959 model and moved $756 from public welfare to disability to cover a budget obligation.
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Richmond
Highway Department
Clement R. Moore
Thomas A. Edwards
Planning Board
Board of Appeals and Conservation Commission
Berkshire conservation group meets town planning board
Conservation team head Byron Titcomb led a Monday evening meeting at Town Hall with the Planning Board, Board of Appeals, and Conservation Commission. Wilson Hill urged year round conservation and recreation planning with priority projects and Seek the team's site guidance.
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Richmond
Berkshire County
Plan’ +g
Board of Appeals and Conservation Commission
Town Hall
Byron Titcomb
U.S. Soil Conservation Service
Berkshires
Wilson Hill
Amherst
Hill
Middlefield Ladies Aid plans October meeting and supper
Middlefield October meeting of the Ladies' Aid Society will be Wednesday evening at 8 at the home of Mrs Cornelius D Vree land Jr Plans will be completed for the annual chicken pie and coon supper scheduled Oct 23 Dancing is planned from 8 to 12 at the school following the supper Jack Mansfield will call for pan ning Board will meet Tuesday evening at 8 at the Big House Fifteen residents attended the public hearing Thursday evening called by the Board of Health regarding the ordinance proposed by the Selectmen to regulate abandoned wrecked junked and dilapidated motor vehicles Atty Leonard Cohen town counsel explained the proposed ordinance and he and the Selectmen answered questions
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Ladies’ Aid Society
Cornelius D. Vreeland Jr
Jack Mansfield
Board of Health
Selectmen
Atty. Leonard Cohen
Pittsfield
Local Conservation Chief Urges Broad Poll on Public Wants
Boyce of the Conservation Commission urged surveying all residents to determine community desires. He emphasized that input should come from everyone.
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Boyce
Local Conservation Commission
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Lorraine Marcis
Vissers
Rod and Gun Club
David Zaleski
James Pasquini
George Cooper
Edward Michalski
Calvin Keslon
Melvin Grass
Natalie Hubbard
Donald O'Bryan
Lawrence Toporowski
Harold Sherman
Steven Wieneck
Ronald Duda
Edward Wieneck
Theodore Truskowski
John Shafer
Harold Daniels
Josep White
Albert Kittler
Hinsdale
William Barser
Francis Rainier
A. F. Guilds
Frank Monzillo
Windsor Locks
Conn
Fritz Polle
Pownal
Jean Patnaud
Buckland
W. R. Burdick
North Adams
Lions Club
Grange Hall
Danville, Vt
Springside Ave
Sears
Allendale
Robert L. Williamson
Robert Williamson
Fisk Street
Camp Custer
Battle Creek
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Adams High School
Lackland Afb
Tex
Jean McGowen
Charles Kusik
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Big House
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