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Laurie Platt Winfrey Shnayerson, 83, of Hillsdale, N.Y.

The family plans a private memorial and asks that donations in lieu of flowers be made to the Roeliff Jansen Community Library.

PROFILE: Kira Payer, a girl and her bike

On Monday morning, when the Class of 2017 returns to Monument Mountain Regional High School following April break for the final push before graduation, senior Kira Payer will be waking up in the Netherlands or possibly driving across Germany representing Team USA in the final installment of the Junior Women’s Nations Cup.

Thomas Kirby, 96, of Lenox, retired Lenox police officer

In 1946 Thomas Kirby was appointed a Special Police Officer in Lenox and directed traffic for Tanglewood for 25 years at the Patterson Monument.

Otto Borsody, 88, of Great Barrington, born in Yugoslavia, lover of freedom

English, which was taught at weekly night classes for the large immigrant community in Housatonic, became the fifth language he learned.

Inge Anna-Luise Kouloganes, 80, of Great Barrington

She and her husband Jimmy resettled in Great Barrington, Mass., and were easily recognized as the best-dressed couple walking around town.

WHAT’S COOKIN’: In the kitchen with Oskar Hallig

While living in Germany in the early 2000s, Hallig became addicted to cooking shows, and gradually came to realize that entertaining was what he really liked.

William Thomas Price, 78, of Stockbridge, Norman Rockwell’s barber

He opened a barbershop on Main Street in Stockbridge which is featured in Norman Rockwell’s Main Street at Christmas (“Home for Christmas,” 1967).

Ruth Anna Ruthel, 91, of Great Barrington

Ruth loved singing in the choir at the First Congregational Church in Great Barrington. She also served many years as an aide for the Visiting Nurse Association.

Leo B. Jansen, 95, of Great Barrington, Mass., and Hartford, Conn.

In Germany, Leo was an All Star soccer player. In the USA he founded the first German-American Soccer Club of Hartford, Conn.

Dr. Bruce Scott Brown, 82, of Lake Buel, New Marlborough, and Pittsford, N.Y.

Dr. Brown became Chairman of Pathology  at the late, great Genesee Hospital in Rochester where he remained for more than thirty years.el, New Marlborough, But when he retired he took to Country Music and the bass fiddle, with a group named Wild Root.

‘The Last Hotel: A Novel in Suites’: Lobby

America gonef. You thief, you stealer of dreams, of desires, of livelihood. He’d had work, honest, good, clean work. He managed a hotel with nearly forty residents. And it was being taken right from him. Like a plate of food, snatched from your hands. America gonef.

Adolf S. Knott, 91, of West Stockbridge

Adolf was born in Gauting, Germany, on January 8, 1924, son to Johann and Rosa (Stadler) Knott. He received his Associates Degree from Newark College of Engineering. Adolf worked for many years as an engineer.

Poem: For Yom HaShoah

Two by two, we boarded the boat Noah’s grateful beasts To salvage what was left.

KALCHEIM: Nightmare scenario: Will 2015 be like 1939?

If we go one step further, and offer the Ukrainians a formal alliance, the result could be nuclear war. This past week, Putin revealed, in an interview with Russian television

KALCHEIM: Shameful lessons from Dresden 

During World War II in the European theatre, surely the Allied air forces of Britain and America would not have been so barbaric, and imprudent, as the Germans, so as to target civilian populations, all on the bogus precept of weakening enemy morale. Or would they?
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