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DALTON, Mass. — Select Board members continue to weigh whether or not to continue its Green Committee, a volunteer body that has recently provoked frustration from multiple town employees. At its Monday session, Chair Robert Bishop updated the board on an investigation he has been conducting this month into complaints brought to light in January. These complaints includes a petition requesting the committee be curtailed that was brought forward by Town Planner Rebecca Slick and signed by seven other top town employees, including interim Town Manager Sandra Albano. "I think this whole thi...

The Wahconah girls basketball team Saturday beat Pittsfield to finish 20-0 this season. click for more March 06, 2021 | 03:33PM It took a few decades, but the Gamberoni family got the better of Pat Duquette click for more February 11, 2021 | 08:57PM Strout, who said she has wanted to be a police officer "since I was 5 years old," has been acquainted with the local force for most of her life. Her uncle, George Wendling, served on Dalton PD for 30 years, and Strout became more involved through the Dalton Police Explorers in her youth. click for more February 03, 2021 | 11:22PM Wahconah's Maria...

"I think she's the best fit for our community," Chair Robert Bishop summarized the consensus. Strout, who said she has wanted to be a police officer "since I was 5 years old," has been acquainted with the local force for most of her life. Her uncle, George Wendling, served on the force for 30 years, and Strout became more involved through the Dalton Police Explorers in her youth. The Dalton candidate had emerged as one of three finalists interviewed earlier this week from a crop of 24 applicants that a local search committee has been working to narrow with help from a consultant at Public ...

Thank you to the P. G. Hospital for taking care of my brother.  The social workers, the nurses, the staff stayed in touch with us as we were far away. They patched through calls from my brother. I know how hard all hospital staff work, from top to bottom, and the long hours to take care of so many in all of our communities. Mostly they get people who whine at them because they can't get information about their loved ones immediately. It's just not possible for them to do it. They put in 12-hour days taking care of our loved ones. 

After telling the populace they were purloining the goods for the Confederacy, they rode away. Suspecting the men were nothing more than common thieves, a local posse was formed to track them down, and a messenger was sent to Fort Riley to enlist the military's help to retrieve their possessions.  The unanswered question was, did soldiers really come to help the Salina townspeople? And were the bushwhackers ever caught?  Local writer and historian Judy Magnuson Lilly was intrigued enough to research and write about this little-known piece of Salina history.  “I would see this story re...