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Front row, from left: John DeDonato, Leahy Galvin, Lola Moerschell, Sara Huber, Tess Marks, Daniela Brennan, Ellie Wolgemuth, Ishaan Tantri, Abigail Perotti.Second row, from left: Danny Lesch, Jassim Mohydin, Junxin Zhang, Harper Howe, Manny Matsudaira, Owen Schnept, and Jonas Johnson.
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FALLS VILLAGE — The Housatonic Valley Regional High School Academic Bowl Team recently finished seventh place in the nation in a field of approximately 300 schools in the Spring 30-20-10 tournament hosted by the Long Island Quiz Bowl Alliance.
In the 30-20-10 Tournament, teams compete to answer questions in a wide variety of categories, from traditional academic subjects like math and history while also including questions about sports and pop culture. The Fall and Spring 30-20-10 events are the largest quiz bowl tournaments in the country.
The Housatonic team, now in its 30th season, consists of seniors Daniela Brennan, Leahy Galvin, Harper Howe, Sara Huber, Katelin Lopes, Tess Marks, Manny Matsudaira, Lola Moerschell, Jassim Mohydin, Ellie Wolgemuth, and Junxin Zhang; juniors Silas Tripp and Shanaya Duprey; sophomores John DeDonato, Sydney Howe, Jonas Johnson, Danny Lesch, and Ishaan Tantri; and freshmen Kip Galvin, Katherine Money, Abigail Perotti, Karmela Quinion, Bridger Rinehart, and Owen Schnepf.
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Nate MacFarland works on a bicycle May 31.
Patrick L. Sullivan
SALISBURY — If you needed your bicycle tuned up or a wobbly chair leg secured, Library Street on Salisbury was the place to be Saturday, May 31.
In the Congregational Church hall, there were stations for book mending, clothes mending, jewelry repair, small furniture repair, and small electric appliance repair.
And bullhorn repair. This counted as a small electrical appliance, and the church pastor, John Nelson, peered intently at the device, trying to come up with a solution.
The Fix-It event, a co-production of the Congregational Church and the Scoville Memorial Library, was supposed to be happening on the library lawn.
But it was raining off and on, and hard when it did.
So the fixer-uppers prudently moved operations inside.
The weather didn’t bother Nate MacFarland of Berkshire Bike and Board in Great Barrington.
He was under a couple of tents on the library lawn offering what he called “simple fixes” for bicyclists.
As he chatted to a reporter, he examined and then adjusted a bicycle seat which had come unmoored.
“That should do it,” he said to the bike’s owner.
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Swift House left out of funding round
Jun 04, 2025
KENT — The recent allocation of STEAP grants across Northwest Corner municipalities did not include Kent’s $1 million proposal to fund its renovation of the historic Swift House into an updated and ADA-compliant facility for daily town use.
The Swift House has been largely vacant in recent years, and its utility to the town has become a long term subject of debate amongst officials and residents. The selectmen applied for the STEAP (Small Town Economic Assistance Program) with aspirations of moving the town’s food bank from the Community House on North Main Street to the first floor of the Swift House, which it would share with a large event and meeting space and the permanent offices of the Social Services department.
At the May 30 town meeting, resident Matt Starr singled out the Swift House as a large project that takes up space on the Capital Plan, sees little progress and doesn’t get enough public input.
First Selectman Marty Lindenmayer said the Board of Selectmen would be looking to community collaboration to plan for next steps.
“The board and town will be taking up the conversation… to figure out what the heck we do next,” said Lindenmayer to the assembled residents.
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FALLS VILLAGE — Liz and Howie Ives were hustling around the Off the Trail Cafe at 107 Main St. in the hours prior to the Memorial Day parade.
The cafe was not officially open, but there was coffee, lemonade and baked goods.
Most of the latter were donated by residents.
As people dropped off trays of cookies, the same question kept coming up.
“When are you opening?”
The answer: “Soon!”
Howie Ives said he figured the place was about three-quarters of the way to being ready to go.
Liz Ives said she has staff lined up and has been in touch with the Torrington Area Health District, which must sign off on the establishment before they can open for keeps, probably in mid-June.
She showed off a draft of the menu.
It included Cobb Knocker Salad. She explained that a cobb knocker is the first person along a given section of trail on a given day, who removes any obstacles that may have developed overnight.
And in keeping with the Appalachian Trail motif, there is the Blaze Burger and Trail Magic Salad. A blaze is a marking on a tree, usually with brightly-colored spray paint, that indicates if a hiker is going the right direction, and “trail magic” is a term used by hikers to describe acts of kindness encountered along the way.
The cafe will be open from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. and closed Wednesdays.
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