Fall Foliage Festival Leaf Hunt 2015

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The annual Fall Foliage Leaf hunt has begun, and the committee has released the first set of clues.

Colored paper leaves are hidden throughout the area and participants must solve the clues in order to find the leaves and win a prize.

The leaves are well hidden and the committee suggests persons search thoroughly to find them. When a leaf is found the person must sign their name on it and return it to Pedrin's Dairy Bar on Curran Highway to claim the prize. One prize per household please.

There is also a phantom leaf hunt for homebound residents. Those participating in the phantom leaf hunt must send a postcard with their name address phone number and the answer to the clue to the Peggy Oleskiewicz, 264 Sand Springs Road, Williamstown, MA 01267.

In the event of a tie, the earliest postmark will determine the winner. Only mailed postcards will be accepted.

If there are any unsolved clues a second set will be released. This event will conclude on Oct. 16; no leaves will accepted after this date. At the conclusion, answers to the clues along with the names of the winners will be announced. Prizes for the event are generously donated by area merchants.

Second set of clues
These phantom leaves haven't been found yet


2.  Deposits and withdrawals
3.  Founded in 1937 for education
7.  You cannot play at this "park"
9.  Something old, something older
11.  Bless them all, RIP
14.  2nd original 13 flyer
15.  Trailside pusher
16.  Retirement, here I come

Second set for Phantom Leaf

1.  Fabricating, machining, turning
3.   2 and 7

 

First set of clues:
 
1.  Unsociable?
2.  Small town bring$ "6" together
3.  Climbing or knowledge?


4.  SUMMER or spring blossoms?
5.  oCoN
6   no BCD or F here

7.  Monumental moolah?
8.  Before the Empire Struck Back
9.  Gold, Myrrh, Frankincense
10  Walt's Ferry Stop
11.  Ketchum, Bullock, Clark Memorial Park
12.  No ocean sound, hmm
13   Nashville Flow

14   Bluegrass and Syrup modified me
15.  No use till winter
16   World upon your shoulders



 

Phantom leaf hunt clues:

1.  I was called an outdoorsman, but that I was not, now I am the county cat's offspring.
2.  In the "center" of it all, you could enjoy our "famous" Friday, fish and chips or a quick beer with the buddies,
     but urban renewal took it away from us.

3.  I was a "hot" spot for dining and special occasions. Now, I am lonely and empty sitting on a very "cold" spot.
 


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Williamstown Planners OK Preliminary Habitat Plan

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Planning Board on Tuesday agreed in principle to most of the waivers sought by Northern Berkshire Habitat for Humanity to build five homes on a Summer Street parcel.
 
But the planners strongly encouraged the non-profit to continue discussions with neighbors to the would-be subdivision to resolve those residents' concerns about the plan.
 
The developer and the landowner, the town's Affordable Housing Trust, were before the board for the second time seeking an OK for the preliminary subdivision plan. The goal of the preliminary approval process is to allow developers to have a dialogue with the board and stakeholders to identify issues that may come up if and when NBHFH brings a formal subdivision proposal back to the Planning Board.
 
Habitat has identified 11 potential waivers from the town's subdivision bylaw that it would need to build five single-family homes and a short access road from Summer Street to the new quarter-acre lots on the 1.75-acre lot the trust purchased in 2015.
 
Most of the waivers were received positively by the planners in a series of non-binding votes.
 
One, a request for relief from the requirement for granite or concrete monuments at street intersections, was rejected outright on the advice of the town's public works directors.
 
Another, a request to use open drainage to manage stormwater, received what amounted to a conditional approval by the board. The planners noted DPW Director Craig Clough's comment that while open drainage, per se, is not an issue for his department, he advised that said rain gardens not be included in the right of way, which would transfer ownership and maintenance of said gardens to the town.
 
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