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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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Former Adams Selectman Applies to Head BRTAStaff reports - January 14, 2008
ADAMS - A former selectman swept up in a scandal in a neighboring transit authority has reportedly applied for the administrator post of the Berkshire Regional Transit Authority.
Gary A. Shephard interviewed for the post last week, according to The Republican of Springfield.
Charles M. "Chuck" MacNeil resigned from the BRTA last year to take a similar job in Albany, N.Y.
Shephard was fired as administrator of the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority in 2006 after it became the focus of a federal investigation into suspected bid rigging. The FBI raided the PVTA headquarters in 2005; no charges have ever been filed against Shephard.
Shephard, however, has filed suit in Hampden Superior Court against the PVTA, according to The Republican, asking for $303,000 in severance pay because he says he was fired without cause. He also asks to be reinstated to his job.
In the suit, Shepard says a contract he signed in 2001 states that if he was fired without cause, he must be paid a lump sum of two times his annual salary at the time, which the suit said means a total of $228,000, according to The Republican.
The suit said the agency, under terms of a contract, also has to pay him an amount 52 times his weekly salary. The amount that Shepard said he is owed is $75,000.
Shephard was elected to the Adams Board of Selectmen in 1978 at age 23, serving until he was named economic development director for Western Mass. by former Gov. Michael Dukakis in 1983. He was hired by the PVTA in 1998. |
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