Local News - North Adams Transcript

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HANCOCK -- The Hancock Boy Scout Troop Committee met at the Town Hall Thursday night. Richard Richards and Jack Lesure of North Adams, representatives of the Order of the Arrow, were guests.

ADAMS --The Viking Pub pool team returned from the National 8-Ball Classic in Las Vegas having finished in 17th place -- not bad considering there were 707 teams competing.

Students at BArT on Commercial Street in Adams are silhouetted against the foliage as they shoot some hoops around lunchtime on Tuesday. Comments made here are the sole responsibility of the person posting them, and they are subject to the terms and conditions of this site.

NORTH ADAMS -- The Brien Center is curtailing the acceptance of any new adult patients requiring medication services at its North Adams Clinic on Marshall Street while it tries to recruit a new psychiatrist or a clinical nurse specialist to assist with its already burgeoning caseload.

DENNIS (AP) - Wildlife officials are teaming with Sea World this weekend in a plan to rescue a lost manatee from Cape Cod waters and ship it to Florida.

BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Vermont's archery deer season is off to a quick start, with 106 deer bagged in the first five days of the season. The season started Oct. 4.

BOSTON (AP) - The battle over whether to name "Moby-Dick" the official book of Massachusetts was almost as intense as the deadly confrontation between Capt. Ahab's crew and the elusive white whale.

The kids need braces for their teeth and shoes for their feet. Gasoline and heating oil prices are at all-time highs. Wall Street is in the throes of a wicked hangover, and the taxpayers are on the hook for billions of dollars.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- A customer opened fire in a crowded shopping mall Wednesday afternoon, killing a clothing store employee before he was shot and wounded by police officers, authorities said. Witnesses said the gunfire sent people "stampeding" for cover.

ADAMS -- Two young cousins from Adams have enlisted in the U.S. Air Force.

ADAMS -- It was Mother Nature that sent the students of C.T. Plunkett Elementary School home early on Tuesday and school Superintendent Alfred Skrocki said everything is going as planned with the school's new boiler system.

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BOSTON -- With the state facing inevitable deep budget cuts, Rep. Denis Guyer on Wednesday suggested implementing a mandatory four-day work week for all non-essential state personel to cut back on utility and other costs associated with running an office.

WILLIAMSTOWN -- For at least the past four years Williams College students have devoted two to three weekends in the fall preparing local homes for winter.

NORTH ADAMS -- Five years after an upstart online media publisher from Brooklyn, N.Y., saved a handful of local employees at the floundering Street mail.com on Main Street through a multi-million dollar merger, it is positioning itself to become the number one publisher of online health Web sites in the country.

Firefighter John Marlowe shows Graham Auxier, 3, that he shouldn't be afraid of a firefighter in all his gear, during a tour of the firestation Wednesday morning. This week is Fire Prevention week and Northern Berkshire Family was visiting the station for the tour which included safety tips.

Two local school districts have been infused with close to $150,000 in funding for the expansion of their after school program offerings.

ADAMS -- Conversation during the town's first intergovernmental meeting quickly turned to the town's financial situation in face of the nation's economic woes.