Lee Vietnam Bronze Star for Sgt Basinait
Sgt. Basinait a 1966 Lee High School graduate from Lenox received the Bronze Star for meritorious service in Vietnam. Presented Sept. 1 at Lai Khe, he served nearly a year with the 1st Infantry Division and previously earned a good conduct medal.
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Lee
Lee High School
Vietnam
William R. Basinait
William E. Basinalt
Lenox
Rae Pauline Clark
Main St
Lai Khe
South Vietnam
Babsman
Corcoran Transferred for Physical Therapy at Roxbury VA
Lee Allen B Corcoran 31 of Olive Street, critically injured in July, moved from Albany VA to Roxbury VA to access extensive physical therapy. He fell head first into Willow Brook from Fairview Street culvert while assisting police surveying a one car accident. Also ads note Eagle Motor Route for sale in Stockbridge Glendale area with about 180 customers and a phone number 274-3387.
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Lee — Allen B. Corcoran
Olive Street
Albany
Veterans Hospital
Roxbury
Corcoran
Willow Brook
Fairview Street
Rocky Brook
Eagle Motor
Stockbridge-Glendale
Becket MRS and local groups share historical gifts
Becket residents Becket MRS Joyce Meier and Mulhollands donated historic papers to the Becket Athenaeum through Alvane E. Perkins of Fresno City College. The items include a 1798 original re charter of the First Congregational Church and an 1833 deed, plus 1858 Becket School Temperance Association pledge, 1887 donations for a volunteer army, 1873 school committee report, and more. Library hours are Tuesdays 1 to 4, Thursdays 1 to 3, Saturdays 10 to 3.
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Becket
Mitchell
Mulholland
Stage Coach Hill
Becket Athenaeum
Mulhollands
Alvane E. Perkins
Guidance
Fresno
Calif
Perkins
Benny Rigg Corner
First Congregational Church
Becket School ‘Temperance Association
North’ Becket Select School
School Board To Weigh Stand On Regional
The Lee School Committee will hold a special meeting tonight in the Lee High School library to decide its stance on the Lee Lenox Otis Tyringham regional school district plan. The district proposal goes to voters in four towns at special meetings Oct 6 and in referenda the next day. One member, John DeVarennes, also on the Regional Planning Committee, seeks endorsement, but the board previously refused to discuss the issue.
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LEE
Lee High School
Lee-Lenox-Otis - Tyringham
John DeVarennes
DeVarennes
Joseph C. Savery
Rey
Mit
Hinsdale Kittredge School opens with fewer pupils
Hinsdale Kittredge School opened with 263 enrolled students, 30 fewer than last year and 32 in first grade, up 14 from 1967. Transfers send 20 to Dalton Junior High and a special class to the Community House in Dalton. New staff include Lawrence Moore and Loyce Smright.
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Hinsdale
Kittredge School
Dalton Junior High School
Lass
Dalton
Violet Meigs
Lawrence Moore
West Stockbridge
Loyce Smright
Pittsfield
Cornelius F. Sharron
Chester Elementary Opens With 185 Enrolled
Chester Principal John C Costello reports 185 students on opening day at Chester Elementary School. Kindergarten starts for first time with 20 enrollees. new staff includes Faith Beard and Maria Bernazki. Day runs 8:45 to 3 with kindergarten 8:45 to 11:30. hot lunch 25 cents with milk. extra milk 4 cents. Gateway Regional seeks elementary aide applicants. letters to Huntington district office. Mrs Mary Hunt celebrates 4th birthday Friday Sept 12 with daughter Mrs Angie Rogers.
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Chester
John C. Costello
Chester Elementary School
Faith Beard
Maria Bernazki
Town Hall
Myna Davenport
Ann Philbrook
Gateway Regional School District
Huntington
Rubbish Fire at Tappan Home Involves Three Trucks
Firefighters responded to a rubbish fire on Bancroft Road at the home of Dr and Mrs Arthur Jacoby in Tappan New Jersey. A builder had been burning debris after renovations. Fire Chief Hubert S Salvini said three trucks and twenty men fought the blaze. A prior June fire had caused about sixty percent damage to the house.
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Becket
Bancroft Road
Arthur Jacoby
Tappan
Hubert S. Salvini
Worthington Club holds golf finals and social updates
Worthington Golf Club finals were held August 31 with Warren Packard winning the first division and George Torrey the second division. The clubhouse will be open weekends until September 28, weather permitting. Coffee hour Thursday at 10 at Mrs. John C. Buckley’s Ridge Road home. 26 attended the Payne home this week. Mrs. Edward V. Chamberlain won the door prize. Mr and Mrs Arthur Smith hosted Labor Day guests from Niagara Falls NY. Blandford Fair awards include Worthington Grange first prize. John Mollison showed shorthorn cattle earning three blue ribbons, a champion and a grand champion.
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Golf Club
Warren Packard
George Torrey
John C. Buckley
Ridge Road
John C. Payne
Edward V. Chamberlain
Blandford
Worthington Grange
John Mollison
Worthington Board Withholds All Alcohol Liquor License 2-1
Worthington selectmen voted 2-1 to withhold the all-alcoholic liquor license amid heated aug hearing. A 14-member citizens committee formed to probe the affair and possibly seek recalls against selectmen. Controversy centers on Emerson’s Drummer's Club and Corners Grocery’s license bids, with conflict of interest and prior hearings alleged.
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Worthington
Henry H.snyder
Albert Nugent
Kenneth Osgood
Cery
Golden Horse Inn
Fred Emerson
Agawani
Drummer's Club
Nhow
Emerson
Western Massachusetts
John Volpe
Volpe
the Corners Grocery, Inc
Corpo
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Lee South Berkshire Bureau
Sgt. Basinait
Bronze
Lee District Court
Robert Kettler
Cliffwood Street
John J. Dwyer
Kettler
John K. Shaughnessy
Howard Johnson
Massachusetts Turnpike
Peter K. Hurley
James Hurley
Tyringham
Robert Valerio
Cambridge
Richard Cicelari
Framingham
Richard S. Gould
West Hartford
Conn
David M. Bissell
Railroad Street
Christa Grabmier
North Lyremont
Rossi
Roxbury Hospital
Joyce Meier
Athenaeum
Whist Party
Becket Center
Ladies’ Guild
Guild Hall
Gordon Thorp
Middle East
William Salvini
Hubert §. Salvini
High Street
Pittsfield General Hospital
William
Sri Eada
Katherine Kirchner
Toby DeAngelus
Charles. J. DeAngelus
South Street
Parker
Camille
Brian Parker
Gulfport
Miss
Edward Parker
Ashmere Drive
Anna LeVardi
Michael
Mississippi
Ladies’ Auxilary
Viola Zauche
Washington Road
Women’s Foreign Missionary Society
Maple Street
Lions Club
Ryening
R. Thomas Murray
Taylor Street
Charles W. Mayberry
Mountain View Country Club
Ladies’ Auxiliary
The
Grange
Ladies' High
Alice Converse
Josephine Sitter
William Westcott
Berkshire
Forrest Bentley
Ethel Adams
Maple Street Hall
Jennie Cummings
Elizabeth Gemmell
Charles Winchell
Rye
N.B
Harry Hartmann
Orlando
Fla
Hartmann
Inlaw
James A. Motter
Middlefield Road
J.C. Edward J. Fassell
Edward Fassell
Curtis Street
Fassell
Japan
Fay Pigagiovanni
Mary Hunt
Huntington Street
Arthurs
Smith
Harvey Road
Lawrence A. Weber
Niagara Fairs
N.Y
Worthington Board
Snyder and Nugent
Osgood
Cullen
Packard
State Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission
ABCC
Aml
Massachusetts
Selectmen
Selectman
Nugent
Jemerson
David J. Riley
Baltmore
Mrs. Riley
Ralph A. Moran
Huntington Road
Judy Grimes
Sunder Land
Morans
AKS
Pascal Celery
Berkshire County
Hamburg
Borden’s Dutch Chocolate
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