LEE â The Lee School Committee is back to full strength â again.
On Tuesday evening, the committee jointly met with the Select Board and unanimously chose Betsy Strickler as the board s newest member.
She was the only candidate who applied to fill the vacancy created by Christine Lucy, who resigned last month, after six years on the seven-person panel. Strickler becomes the fourth new committee member in less than a year and looks forward to her new responsibility. I think it s important for adults to understand kids and how actions of the School Committee impact them long term, she told the joint gathering during a hybrid meeting.
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LEE â The controversial proposed PCB landfill is center stage in Mondayâs Select Board race.
Robert Jones, one of four plaintiffs suing the board over backing the toxic waste dump, is challenging Chairman David Consolati, a 12-year veteran of the three-person panel.
Jones, who moved to Lee in April 2019, is among the residents who earlier this year filed a lawsuit in Berkshire Superior Court claiming that the board lacked the authority to reach a settlement â bypassing town voter approval â with the Environmental Protection Agency and the General Electric Co. for the Rest of River cleanup. GE for years dumped polychlorinated biphenyls â PCBs â in the river from its Pittsfield plant.
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LEE â A plaintiff suing the Lee Select Board over its support for a proposed PCB landfill in town seeks to oust the boardâs chairman during the annual town election.
Robert Jones is challenging Select Board member David Consolati, a 12-year veteran of the three-person panel. Jones filed nomination papers to get on the May 17 ballot, while Consolati will seek the Republican nomination during the local political partyâs caucus at 7 p.m. Friday at Lee Memorial Town Hall. The Democratic caucus is Thursday.
The ballot will be finalized after the caucuses.
Jones, who moved to Lee in April 2019, is one of four townspeople who recently filed a lawsuit in Berkshire Superior Court claiming that the board lacked the authority to reach a settlement â bypassing town voter approval â with the Environmental Protection Agency and the General Electric Co. for the Rest of River cleanup. The plan includes burying about 1 million cubic yards of sediments containing polychlori