Taconic High Grad Participates in Marine Exercise

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Marine Lance Cpl. Pimpesan Supple, right, provides security from a skirmisher hole at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center.

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Marine Lance Cpl. Pimpesan Supple, a Pittsfield native and graduate of Taconic High School, participated in a exercise at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center.

Supple, a rifleman with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, provided security as fire team leader at the combat center in Twentynine Palms, Calif., on Feb. 4.

Marines were inserted two kilometers from Lava Training Area, where they had to fire and maneuver across rough terrain to an objective and set up defensive positions.

After defending the area for 36 hours, the infantrymen repelled an enemy night attack and executed a counterattack across five kilometers to conclude the three-day training exercise.

Supple graduated in 2011 from Taconic High, where he was on the wrestling team.


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Dalton ZBA OKs Gas Station Appeal

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
DALTON, Mass. — The Zoning Board of Appeals gave Lipton Properties the green light to reopen 630 Main St. as a gas station.  
 
The location has been an automotive repair shop, Miller's Service, for several decades until its owner, Darren Miller, sold it to Lipton Properties in February 2024 for $500,000. It had been a gas station dating back to the 1930s prior to that. 
 
Lipton Properties agreed to purchase the property provided the environment was in good condition, and the garage lifts and unused underground tanks were removed, said Michael Lipton, president of Lipton Inc. 
 
The tanks had to be removed to comply with the state Department of Environmental Protection's requirements. The agreement also included Lipton's intention to later install new tanks in the same location as the removed ones. 
 
With this approval, Lipton can now continue with his plans to invest approximately $3 million to revitalize and modernize the property to reopen it as a convenience store and gas station. 
 
The town's zoning enforcement officer previously denied Lipton's zoning use with an opinion citing the proposed use for "bulk storage and/or sale of petroleum products" are not allowed in a B-2 zoning district and "gas station" is not a recognized use. 
 
The property had been a Mobil gas station and service station for decades, known as Culverwell's Mobil station for nearly 30 years until it was demolished and the current structure built in 1970 as Dalton Mobil. Mobil's request to demolish it and build a larger station and canopy was rejected in 1990. Miller purchased the property in 1996.
 
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