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Garivaltis arraignment postponed: NORTH ADAMS -- A local school administrator arrested on drug charges was suspected of "using, buying, selling and bartering" prescription drugs in the county and at Cheshire Elementary School, according to recently filed police reports.
Kurt Garivaltis, 45, director of special services at Adams-Cheshire Regional School District, had his arraignment on a charge of possession of a Class B drug, Percocet, postponed until Feb. 6 at Northern Berkshire District Court on Wednesday.
He is being represented by attorney Leonard H. Cohen of Cohen Kinne Valicenti & Cook LLP out of Pittsfield.
Phil Demers is writing this story and can be reached at pdemers@thetranscript.com, on Twitter @NAT_DigitalPhil, or by phone at 413-663-3741, ext. 225.
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Jennifer Huberdeau is writing this story and can be reached at jhuberdeau@thetranscript.com, on Twitter @NAT_DigitalJen, or by phone at 413-663-3741, ext. 227.
Standing by Savoy school: SAVOY -- The Emma L. Miller School's committee, union and town Selectmen get a chance to push back against a recent Berkshire Regional Planning Commission study that suggested the school may not be viable in the future.
Northern Berkshire School Union Superintendent Jonathan Lev said today school staff is "definitely concerned" but plan to continue on with the school's business. All dispute the potential cost savings of sending students elsewhere and closing the school.
Phil Demers is writing this story and can be reached at pdemers@thetranscript.com, on Twitter @NAT_DigitalPhil, or by phone at 413-663-3741, ext. 225.
Affordable Housing Trust to be considered: WILLIAMSTOWN -- The Community Preservation Committee accepted the Affordable Housing Trust's application for funding Tuesday night, after CPC Chairman Philip McKnight recommended the application be withdrawn.
At a meeting on Jan. 9, McKnight told the trust and committee members he would recommend the trust withdraw its application of $200,000 for acquiring and developing land. Stanley Parese, AHT chairman, was present with fellow trust members to respond to McKnight's recommendation.
"Our right to stand here and ask for money is undeniable," Parese said.
Parese said rather than the trust being a "challenge to the act itself," as McKnight said on Jan. 9, the act endorses it by stating: "A city or town may appropriate money from any year to the Community Preservation fund to an affordable housing trust fund."
Ed Damon is writing this story and can be reached at edamon@thetranscript.com or 413-663-3741, ext. 224.
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