Friends and family are welcome to gather on Friday, March 21, at 1 p.m., at the Monterey UCC Church, for a memorial. Afterwards, a reception will be held at the Monterey Community Center, from about 2 to 4 p.m., to spend some time together.
Adella was a communicant of Saint Peter’s Church and member of the Womens Guild. She also enjoyed walking, the Senior Center and all their activities and all the fairs.
“We have the district that we want to have... the right size...the right programs...there are a lot of fabulous things going on...we just want to do justice to our member towns in terms of...equal, fair pay.”
--Berkshire Hills School Committee member Fred Clark
During a snowstorm, the driver was backing out of a driveway at her workplace at 220 North Plain Road. While waiting to pull out of the driveway onto Route 41, her car was struck by a Housatonic Railroad Company freight train heading south.
According to Great Barrington Town Manager Jennifer Tabakin, the shows — each with millions of viewers -- reached out to the newly formed Great Barrington Film Office at Town Hall and are now working closely with the Berkshire Film and Media Collaborative and the Southern Berkshire Chamber of Commerce.
"Fairview Hospital is part of a strong network of healthcare that provides a level of high quality medical care unusual to find in a rural community.”
-- Fairview’s President Eugene Dellea
"We are always working on multiple funding streams: grants from many sources and direct fundraising from individuals and businesses. We're an all-volunteer effort, working as a community to build a community resource. We'll keep working.”
-- Great Barrington Fairgrounds Co-founder Janet Elsbach, after GBFG application was rejected for being late
A seasoned arts administrator, he served on staff at arts organizations across the East coast, including Philadelphia's Fabric Workshop and Museum; Spoleto Festival USA; Boston's Next Move Theatre Company; and Boston Ticket Services.
The auditor recommended an increase in the stabilization fund, which, she said was “a little low,” and creating an OPEB (Other Post Employment Benefits) trust account to have money put aside for future pension liabilities.
Applicants said they were thwarted either by snarled Main Street construction traffic, or technological glitches. This may create a dilemma for the committee, which has now decided to vote on whether to accept the late applications.
Massachusetts is top in the nation in terms of energy efficiency. Massachusetts residents and businesses have incentives to conserve energy and improve energy efficiency that others don’t. Couple energy efficiency with renewable energy and we’re on our way to a low-carbon transition.
“What we’ve said we stood for and what we’ve done is in an unmitigated disgrace. We can’t build a stronger foundation on a lie.”
-- Will Singleton, president of the Berkshire branch of the NAACP
“The heart of the question is how do you make the Housatonic School building financially feasible. It has to be financially viable and be a positive impact on the village. Any entity that can do those two things, we should be greasing the wheels for them.”
-- Timothy Geller, executive director of the Community Development Corporation of South Berkshire
“Mr. Richman was the best teacher I ever had”…”Mr. Richman taught me to love calculus when I hated math”…”I am now becoming an engineer because of Mr. Richman…”
“In 1964 the whole [Mahaiwe] cemetery was in disrepair and the town took it over. When you buy a [cemetery] lot from the town, you have ‘perpetual care’.”
-- Walter F. “Buddy” Atwood III, a member of the Cemetery Commission
Railroad Street Youth Project offers mentoring and apprenticeship programs, a sexual health education initiative, an all-youth board that funds innovative, youth-inspired projects and trips, job training and career counseling.
