Cheshire News

LENOX, Mass. - Heidi Nutt had grown up in Lenox not thinking much about the military, or the sacrifices of military families.

Moderator Bryan Tanner, left, Town Clerk Carol Jammalo, Finance Committee Chairwoman Mary Beverly and Selectmen Jeffery Levanos, Carl McKinney and Lily Kuzia.

Kristie Kordana, daughter of Sherry Benedetti Zepka of Cheshire, has been named to the dean's list at Roger Williams University in Bristol, R.I., for the fall 2011 semester.

Melissa Prime and her son, Dan Sumy, who both live in Cheshire, started college at different schools.

For the past six months, state police Trooper Andrew Canata has been pounding the pavement between regional libraries and cemetery plots.

A court of awards for members of Girl Scout Troop 3 and a fly-up ceremony for Brownie Troop 19, both of Freeman School, were held last evening.

A pretrial hearing has been scheduled for June 25. * Nicholas E. Bushey, 20, of Crane Place in Dalton, was arraigned on a charge of destruction of property under $250. A pretrial hearing has been scheduled for June 5. * Justin J. Mayotte, 25, of Brayton Hill in North Adams, on charges of speeding in violation of a special regulation and operating a ... (more)

CHESHIRE, Mass. - The Eleanor Sonsini Animal Shelter will be holding its annual tag sale on Saturday, June 2, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Whitney's Farm Market and Country Gardens located on Route 8. The event is held annually to raise money for food and any necessary care for many homeless cats and dogs.

CLARKSBURG, Mass. - Clarksburg has a new town administrator in Thomas Webb. The Selectmen on Wednesday morning voted to offer the post to the Cheshire town administrator after interviewing him and fellow finalist attorney Barbara Kellogg of Lenox on Wednesday morning.

For the second year running, the town voted against allowing Selectmen to shop, and potentially sell, 440 acres of town land to the state Monday.

CHESHIRE, Mass. - School officials hope to have a new high school principal by the end of May and an interim principal for C.T. Plunkett Elementary shortly afterward.

CLARKSBURG, Mass. - A veteran administrator has been named as one of two finalists for the town administrator position.

Pittsfield Police have filed charges against a man who allegedly threatened Meredith Nilan if "the justice system doesn't come through," apparently in reference to a pending case in which Nilan is accused of leaving the scene of an accident that left a man with a broken neck.

CHESHIRE, Mass. - School officials hope to have a new high school principal by the end of May and an interim principal for C.T. Plunkett Elementary shortly afterward.