Friday, May 9
ADAMS -- More than 40 headstones have been toppled at the Maple Street Cemetery in a massive act of vandalism that mirrors incidents that have happened in Pittsfield and North Adams recently.
Late last week, Cemetery Com-issioner David Nuvallie found that dozens of the grave markers had been knocked off their pedestals, broken in half or uprooted from the ground.
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WILLIAMSTOWN -- Williams College might see the state shave a yearly slice from its $2 billion endowment fund if a plan some legislators are supporting passes into law, but administrators are arguing the law would be unconstiutional.
Legislators asked the Depart-ment of Revenue two weeks ago to study a plan that would place a 2.
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WILLIAMSTOWN -- Mount Greylock Regional High School now owns a foreign language learning laboratory thanks to a large donation of equipment from Williams College.
"One of the real objectives of foreign language programs is to have kids become fluent in the speaking of a language, not just in the grammar and reading part of it," Superintendent William Travis said on Thursday.
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Former Gov. Jane Swift reads during National Record-A-Thon Week for Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, Tuesday morning at the organization's Main Street location in Williamstown. The unit is always looking for volunteers to be trained in recording and reading for the organization.
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Editor's note: Due to an unfortunate production error, this story did not run its entirety in Thursday's paper. We are reprinting it here today.
WILLIAMSTOWN -- Three incumbents are facing opposition in the town's first-ever Planning Board election, and voters will need to decide on Tuesday whether swapping experience for fresh blood is the best decision for the town.
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WILLIAMSTOWN -- Three incumbents are facing opposition in the town's first-ever Planning Board election, and voters will need to decide on Tuesday whether swapping experience for fresh blood is the best decision for the town.
Eight candidates are contending for one of five positions on the board.
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May 9
50 years ago today
NORTH ADAMS -- Rudolph Benedetti, physical education teacher in city schools, has been reappointed to the Recreation Commission for a five-year term. Mr. Benedetti, of 55 Arnold Place, has been a member of the board since January 1957, when he was named to fill out the unexpired term of John Puppolo.
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A slew of people called in to identify the late Robert E. Galipeau, seen here digging up carrots from his Kemp Avenue garden in North Adams on March 19, 1975. Mr. Gallipeau served 37 years with the city's water department, retiring as superintendent in 1983. A past commander of the American Legion in North Adams, he was instrumental in reviving the post's baseball team.
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PITTSFIELD -- In Berkshire Superior Court Wednesday, Raymond M. "Mickey" Dunham Jr.'s family and friends shared fond memories of a good boy who went on to become an even better father. But not even the support of a local Catholic priest or anecdotes about the big-hearted Dunham, who still shovels his grandmother's driveway each winter, could erase a critical mistake.
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