He also owned and operated the D.J. Pratt Excavation Company for 20 years, serving customers throughout the Berkshires.
Tag: Lenox Dale
Parties wearily embrace Housatonic River remediation settlement
The parties know that this cleanup could be better, but they have balanced the waste reduction improvement, the monetary compensation and expeditious start of cleanup against the risks of continued litigation.
PCB removal pact sparks anger and dismay at EPA, towns
Opponents of the recent settlement between General Electric, the Environmental Protection Agency and five South County towns to clean up PCBs in the Housatonic River reveal plans to stop a planned PCB landfill in Lee.
No PCB dump in the Berkshires: Popular resistance begins
In a letter to the editor, Pooja Prema of Great Barrington, Mass., writes, “I advocate for leaving the river alone until more effective natural remediation technologies are discovered within the next two to 10 years, which could be done in situ (without dredging). This technology most likely already exists”
No Berkshires PCB dumps – period!
I am all for science and sadly EPA, in this fight, has proven they are only as good as the standards we hold them to. Let the EPA know there will not be a local dump, period.
Genevieve Powers, 87, of Lenox Dale
She worked at Browns Express from 1950-56, Peter J. Schweitzer from 1956-66, and George VanZandt until 1994 when she retired.
Jonathan Candee, 33, of Tempe, Ariz., formerly of Lenox Dale
Jonathan was very artistic and loved paintings, cooking delectable and adventurous meals, and decorating his home.
Haikus for winter
At this point, obsessed with grayness as I am and as are so many of the people I know, I’ll stick to the weather, daily life, my neighborhood, Mutzl (my dog) and Hermes (my cat) bad politics and delicious food.
December haikus
I’m still up when it turns midnight, 12 a. m. on Saturday,, December 7.
December haikus
When I wake up at 7 in the real morning and hear the long, detailed weather report, I feel… What can I say?
Thomas H. Martin Sr., 79, of Housatonic
Thomas worked for many years as an electrician for the former Lenox Machine, now Beloit-Lenox, in Lenox Dale, retiring in 2000.
West Stockbridge student to be featured contestant on Food Network’s ‘Chopped Junior’
Four contestants aged 9 to 12 who have demonstrated their knowledge of food and skill in the kitchen are given “mystery baskets” of ingredients they must include in dishes they create on the spot.
Fourteen haikus
Berkshire Tikkun Gift
The mitzvah I give
Our community. I AM
Making a garden.
Matthew F. Kostyun, 47, of Lenox Dale
He could often be found in the woods searching for sticks to complete his woodworking projects.
Birth announcement
A boy born at Fairview Hospital in Great Barrington.
Joan Codding, 74, of Adams
Primarily a homemaker and mother, she had a lifelong love of all things nature and, later in life, earned her associate degree in environmental science from Berkshire Community College.
South Berkshire Memorial Day parades and services
The schedule for South Berkshire County Memorial Day parades and celebrations.
Eagle Mill receives crucial federal tax credits for mixed-use project in downtown Lee
The project will revive and expand the historic mill site in downtown Lee into a combination of office space, both market-rate and affordable rental units, a hotel and a “public market” with multiple restaurants and food kiosks.
EPA to host informational meeting on progress of PCB cleanup of Housatonic River
GE has also challenged the EPA’s order to dispose of the contaminated sediment at an out-of-state facility, insisting it wants to establish dumps for the material dredged from the river in Lenox Dale, near Goose Pond in Lee and on land adjacent to Rising Pond, an impoundment on the river in the village of Housatonic.
Lenox fails to approve retail pot shops and short-term rentals: Not likely the end of the story
“The voters sent a strong message to the Town of Lenox that there needs to be balance, fairness and transparency among those who are entrusted to represent taxpayers and residents.”
— Lenox architect Jim Harwood
Brian Drumm, 75, of Stephentown, N.Y., formerly of Lee and Lenox Dale
Prior to his retirement, Brian worked for 40 years as an operating engineer at Lane Construction Company, where he never missed a day of work and had an impeccable safety record.
Charles Joseph Liston, 95, of Lenox Dale
He was a member of the Lenox Conservation Commission and the Lenox Land Trust, having a long-held interest in conservation and wildlife.
Frank Igo, 88, of Lenox Dale, retired Pittsfield teacher
He worked as a teacher in the Pittsfield School Systems until his retirement in 1996 and was a sheriff of Berkshire County until 1996.
Patricia Senter, 89, of Lee
Pat graduated from the former Berkshire Business College in 1948 and went to work for Durant-Forman Insurance in Lee for several years.
With enrollment increasing, Montessori School adds new educational spaces
Enrollment at the Montessori School of the Berkshires is on the rise, which, in light of declining school aged population across the county, begs an important question: What about the Montessori philosophy is so appealing?
GB Planning Board has a ‘vision’: ‘Marijuana mills’ in Housatonic
If voters approve the Great Barrington bylaw, indoor cultivation of marijuana of the sort envisioned in the mills will be permitted by-right in the light industrial zone that covers much of Housatonic.
John L. Durante, 94, of Pittsfield
He retired in 2014 and holds the record for the most years of continuous service in the history of the General Electric company, with 65 years of service.
PCB landfills can be avoided if EPA cleanup plan for Housatonic River is revised, appeals board rules
If the Region were to roll up its sleeves, as it were, and revise the remanded permit, the Housatonic could yet remain free from the risks and burdens of PCB landfills.
Kevin Maguire, 68, formerly of Lenox Dale
Mr. Maquire worked as a manager at Agway in Lee and was co-owner of Dale Town Toys.
Jeremy A. Saunders, 36, of Lenox Dale
He was born in Pittsfield on August 16, 1981 to Charlene and the late Thomas S. Saunders. Jeremy was a 2000 graduate of Lenox High School.
Joseph Leahey, 83, of Lenox
Mr. Leahey worked for the town of Lee in the water department and was self-employed as an auto mechanic.
Edna Piretti, 89, of Lenox, co-founded Lenox Chamber of Commerce
In the 1960s she and her sister Helen Fillio went to real estate school in Springfield, then opened Tanglewood Realty on the corner of Housatonic and Church Streets in Lenox where they also sold Sheffield Pottery. Together they established the Lenox Chamber of Commerce.