The council on Tuesday voted to solicit interest in filling the seat left vacant on the nine-person council by the resignation of President Paul Hopkins last week. Hopkins stepped down because he is moving out of the area. The last two vacancies had been filled by the 10th candidate on the ballot, a move that Councilor Wayne Wilkinson advocated for. I m a firm believer that person that is on City Council should have been voted by the people, he said. I know in the past that we ve asked letters of interest, and that the council then gets together and goes over those letters of interest. The bottom line is, some of those people nobody ever voted for.
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The Zoning Board of Appeals on Monday approved plans to replace the structure with a new six-unit apartment building at the request of owner Garabed Setrakian of Cambridge. Setrakian purchased the property last April in hopes of restoring the 1870 building but found it too far gone. I definitely will make a gigantic improvement to this corner, which used to be a very valuable part of North Adams, he said, referring to its past hosting a branch of the library. My initial intentions were definitely to revive this building and bring it to its former glory. Unfortunately I missed my chance. I may have been too late because it had already been abandoned from the fire and unfortunately no action was taken by the previous owner.
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The challenges, each of which comes with $1 million, have been awarded to Debut Biotechnology, Inc. for biosynthesis of monomers for aerospace thermosets, Amyris for biosynthesis of high-density endothermic fuels, and MIT-Tufts-Synlogic for human performance-enhancing probiotics. An additional award of $500 thousand was awarded to Tech Holding, LLC in the area of biosynthesis of high-density endothermic fuels. The review team for each topic consisted of experts from across the Department of Defense.
“Through collaborations with industrial and academic partners, these grand challenges allow AFRL to mature promising solutions using biotechnology to deliver products to our warfighters to ultimately both enable and enhance their performance and their lives,” explained Dr. Rajesh Naik, AFRL’s biotechnology portfolio lead and chief scientist of the laboratory’s 711th Human Performance Wing. “Internally, we have demonstrated the technological feasibility of these challeng