Savoy News

The Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation invites interested sportsmen and women, foresters, land trust and watershed association members and other conservationists who care about state forests to participate in a Forest Futures Visioning Process at a two-part public forum on Tuesday, July 14, from 3:45 to 8:30 p.m. The first part ...

The outrage your readers should be feeling concerning Minuteman Wind's project in Savoy is that the community's desire for wind energy projects in their town, as evidenced by a 155 to 56 vote adopting the town's wind turbine bylaw, continues to be frustrated by opponents who are unwilling to respect civil processes and harass town officials trying ...

Youth Center Inc. has received funding through the Berkshire County Regional Employment Board to run a summer youth employment program for young people who meet the Workforce Investment Act eligibility.

There are moments when I am so outraged I don't know what to say first. That happened when I read that Don McCauley, head of Minuteman Wind, was shopping his Savoy wind project to the towns of Wellesley and Concord in eastern Massachusetts.

Inside the new gallery at 107 Main St., cereal boxes and milk crates decorated with casts of shirt buttons form the walls of small forts, while old sneakers and boots take the place of planters and tiny cocktail umbrellas are fashioned into a colorful flowerbed.

Before a large and often emotional crowd, the director of the Massachusetts Broadband Institute spent two hours on Friday afternoon fielding questions on the lack of broadband access in the Berkshires, and outlining the organization's plans to tap into a pool of federal economic stimulus money to expand that technology here.

When students return to their mountain school house this September, longtime teacher Dan Wilk will be there, but he'll bid the students adieu 11 days later when he officially retires.

The Catholic churches in Adams may be shrinking in number, but the congregations are growing in deeds.

In the minutes of the September 2008 meeting of the Wellesley Light and Power Company Board, it is explained how a private power company located in one of the wealthiest communities in the commonwealth has agreed on the plans of Minuteman Wind LLC, a wind facility developer, as presented by president Don McCauley.

The town's newly formed Green Committee is already going to work, and on Tuesday night, they reported to the Selectmen on a number of different ways Savoy can conserve energy and money.

Monsters have lived there. Paper caterpillars, too. And each time a child or family visits, it's guaranteed they'll discover something new.

Chief Petty Officer Joseph Wiejaczka, U.S. Naval Reserve, of 1 Potter St., has returned from Philadelphia, Pa., after receiving two weeks of extensive schooling at the navy shipyard there.

The town has something special in store for this year's Memorial Day parade as fire apparatus from 20 different departments will be featured in a parade beginning at 3:30 p.m. Fire Chief Lawrence Ordyna has sought help from fire agencies in Adams, Ashfield, Charlemont, Cheshire, Chesterfield, Clarksburg, Colrain, Cummington, Florida, Hawley, ...

A North Adams jet pilot whose Air Force service began 17 years ago, has been promoted to major.

Gregory Reynolds, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Reynolds of Church Street left from the Pittsfield Recruiting Center today for Great Lakes, Ill., where he will undergo six weeks' boot training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station.

Guidebooks repeatedly classify it as the nation's first scenic "auto route." While that may be a somewhat tarnished distinction at the end of the Age of Oil, there is no doubt about the scenic part.

First Lt. Harry Clark, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Clark of 943 Massachusetts Ave., has been promoted to captain at Harlingen Air Force Base, Texas.

The zoning board of appeals heard a lot a questions and answers at Friday night's public hearing, but reached no conclusions on whether to grant a special permit to Minuteman Wind LLC for its proposed wind farm on West Hill.

The winners of Northern Berkshire Community Television's recent studio video competition.

Minuteman Wind would like to begin construction of its $30 million, five-turbine wind energy project on West Hill sometime this fall, with completion slated for next year, but first faces the hurdles of town and state review.