LENOX â Asserting that the town has so much on its plate that it needs the full-time service of Christopher Ketchen, the Select Board voted 5-0 in a closed-door session Wednesday night to terminate the inter-municipal agreement with the town of Lee and bring him back to Lenox as the full-time town manager.
Under that pact, approved four years ago by the boards of both towns and further reinforced in 2020 by Lenox, Ketchen also served as Lee-Lenox Chief Administrative Officer, splitting his time between the communities.
Returning to public session briefly on Wednesday night, Select Board Chairwoman Marybeth Mitts stressed that Ketchen had not requested the change to his contract, which takes effect in two months. Letters with the Lenox boardâs written decision are being sent to the chairman of the Lee Select Board and the town clerks of Lee and Lenox.
SHEFFIELD â Isabella C. Kemp, a recent Mount Everett Regional High School graduate, is the recipient of a $20,000 Henry David Thoreau Scholarship. She is one of eight Thoreau Scholars entering college this autumn.
The scholarship, named for the 19th-century naturalist and author Henry David Thoreau, is a prestigious award given annually to top Massachusetts high school seniors focused on environmental leadership.
The daughter of Angela Cardinali and John Kemp, Kemp credits her early introduction to agriculture and environmental awareness to the elementary school partnership programs led by Jen Salinetti, founder of the Woven Roots Farm in Tyringham. Later, as a high school student, she interned on the farm helping to develop educational materials including videos, website content and a guidebook.
SHEFFIELD â Ryan LaBoy became a music teacher, in part, because he recognized the role that music teachers played in his life.
LaBoy described himself as âa very artistic kid in a place where boys were expected to be very boyish,â adding that he did not play many sports while growing up in New Yorkâs Hudson Valley.
âI sort of fell into a safe space when I joined choir as a young person, and I found a place where my gifts were useful and valued by the people I was around,â LaBoy said. âOn top of that, we got to sing.â
It may be that making raspberry shrug from backyard berries and drinking it down on a hot summer day; or writing poems; or even revisiting the sites of memory with
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