GREENFIELD The volume of passionate voices at the new Greenfield Public Library’s groundbreaking ceremony would have made any librarian go “SHHHH!” Despite rain pouring down just minutes before the event, supporters and opponents of the project.
With new Greenfield Public Library construction nearing, event to share building image, encourage fundraising >Greenfield plans to hold a banner raising event Thursday morning on the lawn between the Fire Station the location of the future library and the current Greenfield Public Library, pictured, to share with the community an image of the new building. Staff Photo/Paul Franz
Published: 7/19/2021 5:21:11 PM
GREENFIELD The city plans to hold a banner raising event Thursday morning on the lawn between the Fire Station the location of the future library and the current Greenfield Public Library to share with the community an image of the new building.
GREENFIELD After nearly a decade in the making, the city has awarded a contract to D.A. Sullivan & Sons Inc. to construct the new library on Main Street.With a contract of $14.3 million, the Northampton-based construction company was the lowest.
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TOWER- About halfway up the hill toward the west end of Lakeview Cemetery in Tower is a large, rough stone family marker, with the name “Campaigne” inscribed in a smoothed oval. Nearby, severely tilted and partially covered with grass and dirt is a headstone, “Maude A. 1894-1918.”
1918 was a tumultuous year for Minnesota. Many young men from this area had answered the call of the nation and were engaged on the battlefields of Europe in the “great war” we know today as World War I. Much closer to home, the first two weeks of October were scarred by massive fires that started near Cloquet and Moose Lake, blazes that destroyed 38 communities, scorched 1,500 square miles, displaced 52,000 people, and claimed the lives of more than 450 others.
STOCKBRIDGE â As it begins to look toward a gradual reopening of in-person school and grapples with coronavirus pandemic complications, the Berkshire Hills Regional School District on Thursday quickly approved its fiscal 2022 budget.
At a virtual public hearing, the School Committee voted unanimously for net operating costs of $28.3 million, and a capital budget of $1.96 million.
Less state and other aid, the total net assessment to Great Barrington, West Stockbridge and Stockbridge, is $24.7 million, a 3.2 percent increase over this year.
Great Barrington pays 75 percent of those costs, since it sends the majority of students to district schools.
Because of a complex state formula, and the number of students from each town, Great Barrington will see a nearly 5 percent hike over fiscal 2021, an $18.4 million assessment; Stockbridgeâs increase will be over 7 percent, to $3.2 million; and West Stockbridge will see a 3 percent decrease, also at $3.2 million.