Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), the inventor of dynamite, was a chemist, engineer, businessman and, most memorably, philanthropist; he was also a scholar, fluent in Russian, French, English and German. Above all, he loved poetry.
Funeral Services for Lena H. Ostrander will be held on Thursday, October 20 at 10 a.m. with a Liturgy of Christian Burial at Saint Peter’s Church in Great Barrington with Reverend William P. Murphy Pastor officiating.
Loretta worked as an LPN at Fairview Hospital and Berkshire Health Care. She then began working as a paraprofessional at Undermountain Elementary School for the next 27 years.
Several who spoke against it were members of the Lake Mansfield Improvement Task Force, which spent more than 10 years working on a comprehensive plan for restoring and maintaining the lake that included a plan to close the road to vehicular traffic.
When county schools closed March 13, Jenny Schwartz quickly became a liaison of sorts between schools and community partners, with representatives from about 15 groups who have been meeting regularly via Zoom to gain traction on the myriad challenges surrounding food insecurity.
In a letter to the editor, Robin Helfland writes, "Not only was the package a genuine help, it was a meaningful gesture of support for local businesses as together we face the challenge of this pandemic."
The idea for retail businesses is that most will require masks of customers for the foreseeable future. If a customer does not have a mask, businesses can offer them one because they will now have a supply.
