Battalion Boosts Playoff Hopes With Big Weekend

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- The Berkshire Battalion kept its playoff hopes alive by winning two of three games this weekend in the Federal Hockey League.
 
With 17 games left in the team's inaugural season, Berkshire is in fifth place in the six-team league, nine points behind fourth-place Danville.
 
The Battalion has two games left against the Dashers, a Valentine's Day weekend set in Illinois that could decide Berkshire's postseason fate.
 
So far this season, the Battalion is 2-4 against Danville, which has won the last two in the season series.
 
On Sunday afternoon at the the Peter W. Foote Vietnam Veterans Memorial Rink, the Battalion knocked off first-place Watertown, 8-4, for the team's third win in four games.
 
Tom Tracy and Tyler Prendergast each had two goals and an assist for Berkshire in the win.
 
Robert Morton set up three goals, and the Battalon got tallies from Martin Uhnak, Michael Kaselouskas, Vladyslav Gavrik and Dimitry Antipin.
 
Louie George stopped 40 shots in the victory to add to his league-leading total of 1,053 saves on the year.
 
The Battalion play their next three games at home, starting with a Friday-Saturday series this weekend against Watertown. The puck drops both nights at 7:35.
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Clarksburg Sees Race for Select Board Seat

CLARKSBURG, Mass. — The town will see a three-way race for a seat on the Select Board in May. 
 
Colton Andrews, Seth Alexander and Bryana Malloy returned papers by Wednesday's deadline to run for the three-year term vacated by Jeffrey Levanos. 
 
Andrews ran unsuccessfully for School Committee and is former chairman of the North Adams Housing Authority, on which he was a union representative. He is also president of the Pioneer Valley Building Trades Council.
 
Malloy and Alexander are both newcomers to campaigning. Malloy is manager of industrial relations for the Berkshire Workforce Board and Alexander is a resident of Gates Avenue. 
 
Alexander also returned papers for several other offices, including School Committee, moderator, library trustee and the five-year seat on the Planning Board. He took out papers for War Memorial trustee and tree warden but did not return them and withdrew a run for Board of Health. 
 
He will face off in the three-year School Committee seat against incumbent Cynthia Brule, who is running for her third term, and fellow newcomer Bonnie Cunningham for library trustee. 
 
Incumbent Ronald Boucher took out papers for a one-year term as moderator but did not return them. He was appointed by affirmation in 2021 when no won ran and accepted the post again last year as a write-in.
 
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