| | | Tuesday, August 19
NORTH ADAMS -- As gasoline prices continue to drop in nearby towns, Mayor John Barrett III is calling on local stations to explain why their prices are 10 cents higher than those in Adams and Pittsfield.
"It really shows how things are out of whack when you go to O'Connells in Cheshire, where gas is notoriously higher than other places, and it's $3.
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Ethan Sumner, 3, fires at the basket in the backyard of his Cold Spring Road home in Williamstown on Monday, as his aunt Dawn Harrington watches.
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Aug. 19
50 years ago today
READSBORO, Vt. -- Randy Jane Crosier, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Crosier of Heartwellville, won three awards over the weekend at the third annual Greenbush Jaycees horse show at East Greenbush, N.Y.
NORTH ADAMS -- The School Committee last night filled the only two remaining teaching vacancies in the North Adams Schools.
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Nearly everybody got into the act identifying this picture of William Schrade Jr. and his son William Schrade III at young Bill's graduation on June 7, 1991, from the electronics program at C.H. McCann Technical School. The elder Bill worked as automotive shop teacher at the time.
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Jamie Brierley of Clarksburg recently graduated cum laude from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. She was among 2,000 students who were awarded undergraduate degrees at its 202nd commencement on May 17. Brierley received a bachelor of science in biomedical engineering.
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ADAMS -- The peak of Mount Greylock saw a little more activity Saturday than just the occasional hiker, as the state Department of Conservation and Recreation held an open house of historic Bascom Lodge for potential developers.
More than dozen showed up on Saturday, including several with local connections, to take a first-hand look at the mountaintop lodge before they
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Aug. 18
50 years ago today
NORTH ADAMS -- Ensign John Hinkell, who received his navy commission Friday at the conclusion of an 18-week course at the Officer Candidate School in Newport, R.I., will serve as communications officer on the USS Yosemite, a destroyer tender and flagship of the destroyer force in the Atlantic.
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Adams
Aug. 8
George O. Malloy and Virginia L. Malloy sold property at 3 Godek St. for $160,000 to Linda A. Greenbush and Scott E. Cernik.
Aug. 11
Marlene A. Salvi and Michael Szafranski sold property at 2 West Kittler Ave. for $116,000 to Virginia L. Malloy and George O.
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Who is this happy young man with all the apples? Where was the picture taken and when? Please e-mail any information to mbutton@thetranscript.com or call 413-663-7942, ext. 222, and leave a message (note changes in contact information this week only). Be sure to leave your phone number in case we need to get in touch.
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This picture of Robert Maynard was taken at his home in Savoy on April 18, 1972, with Anheuser the raccoon. Thanks to Robert's mom, Althea Maynard, to Roger Hollerich and to Jamie Jangrow, who wrote in to say : The raccoon was found abandoned as a baby and was raised by Jamie Jangrow and Douglas Bates, also of Savoy.
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CLARKSBURG -- The Clarksburg Council on Aging held its monthly meeting on Aug. 12 at the Clarksburg Senior Center. Lily Kuzia presided. All members were present.
The secretary's minutes and the treasurer's report were read and accepted. It was announced that honorary member Millie Caprari will be honored at a party and open house at the center, on her 90th birthday, Aug.
Full Story Monday, August 18
The Northern Berkshire Chorale has announced that Andrea Goodman is its new music director.
Goodman replaces Judith Reichert, who retired in spring 2008 after serving as music director since the chorale's beginning in 2001.
Goodman is the founder and director of the Saratoga Choral Festival, a choir that has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Saratoga
Full Story Monday, August 18
Gas on Columbia Street in Adams was at a low of $3.65 a gallon Friday for unleaded regular -- if customers paid cash.
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NORTH ADAMS -- Lumber-jacks splitting wood, experts on cheese making, pickling, growing plants in container plants and raising chickens, and contra dancers will fill the main courtyard of Mass MoCA on Saturday, Aug. 23 from 10 to 4 as Storey Publishing celebrates its 25th anniversary with a old-fashioned country fair and book sale.
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Whenever we make Chocolate Caramel Pecan Sandies, the kitchen fills with the most delicious aroma that comes from baking with butter, and we are reminded of what the late Richard Sax said about homemade cookies.
On his list of great moments in cookie history in "Classic Home Desserts" (Chapters, 1994) Sax wrote, "Cookie fans know that real cookies must be baked at home.
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