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Daily DigestMeetings
The Drury High School Council meets Tuesday, Jan 13, at 6:30 in the conference room. Agenda items include AYP, school grant, laptop initiative and PowerSchool updates. |
Steve Decker cleans up in front of BankNorth on Wednesday.
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More Snow
The Berkshires received several inches of snow this morning, but not enough to close schools, unlike yesterday's sleety mess. Temperatures will drop into the 20s this afternoon. A few more snow showers are expected through the weekend.
We have reports that the roads are very slippery to take care in the evening commute. |
Duff'em If You've Got'em
 North Adams Regional Hospital went smoke-free Monday — so did all its sister sites, from Sweet Brook to Northern Berkshire Family Practice to the Women's Exchange. No ashtrays, no smoking: No butts about it. |
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Wanted: Eagle Eyes
 MassWildlife's annual eagle count runs Dec. 31 to Jan. 14. Anyone sighting one of the regal birds in Massachusetts is asked to participate.
Send date, time, location and town of eagle sightings, number of birds, whether juvenile or adult and observer's contact information to Mass.wildlife@state.ma.us. |
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Obama TransitionOther StuffMars Rovers Mark 5 Years
 Spirit and Opportunity have been trekking the red planet for half a decade. Spirit hit the 5-year mark on Sunday; Opportunity will on Jan. 24. |
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Pianist to Accompany Buster Keaton Film - January 21, 2008
GREAT BARRINGTON – Ben Model, noted silent film piano accompanist, will accompany Buster Keaton's "Sherlock Jr." at Bard College at Simon's Rock on Thursday, Jan. 31, at 7 p.m.
The event is free and open to the public and will take place in the Daniel Arts Center.
For more than two decades, Model has been resident silent film accompanist for the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In addition, he has played in many other venues around the Northeast, and produces The Silent Clowns Film Series with film historian Bruce Lawton. He also will talk with students of filmmaker Larry Burke.
Model composes and improvises his own scores, and performs in a style that is both evocative of the silent era and also aware of a contemporary (and younger) audience's experience with music and film scoring. He often introduces the films he accompanies. In 2006, he was an organizer of MoMA's two-month retrospective of the films of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.
Model grew up watching silent movies at the home of Walter Kerr, drama critic and author of "The Silent Clowns" (Knopf, 1975). He also accompanied silent movies for noted film historian William K. Everson's classes at New York University while attending film school there, and learned the craft and technique of silent film scoring from legendary silent film organist Lee Erwin. |
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