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The 1983 Blazer is being sold for parts and scrap only.

Lanesborough Puts Fire Department Trucks Up For Sale

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The 1986 GMC being sold by the Fire Department needs some maintenance.

LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — The town is selling two former Fire Department trucks.

The vehicles are a 1983 Chevrolet Blazer and a 1986 GMC Forest Fire truck. 
 
The Blazer is being sold as is with a minimum bid of $250. The truck is for parts or scrap. The forest fire vehicle is in usable condition.
 
The vehicle is in need of maintenance but has only 30,761 miles on it. A minimum bid for that is $1,600. 
 
The vehicles are parked behind the fire station. Sealed bids are due to the town secretary at Town Hall by noon on March 31.
 
The Selectmen do have the right to reject any and all bids.
 
The board members have already rejected one set of bids because they felt they were too low. They added the minimum bid requirement. 
 
"We were only offered $1,500. I believe the trucks are worth more," said Chairman John Goerlach.
 

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Berkshire Wind Power Cooperative Corporation Scholarships

LUDLOW, Mass. — For the third year, Berkshire Wind Power Cooperative Corporation (BWPCC) will award scholarships to students from Lanesborough and Hancock. 
 
The scholarship is open to seniors at Mount Greylock Regional High School and Charles H. McCann Technical School. BWPCC will select two students from the class of 2024 to receive $1,000 scholarships.
 
The scholarships will be awarded to qualifying seniors who are planning to attend either a two- or four-year college or trade school program. Seniors must be from either Hancock or Lanesborough to be considered for the scholarship. Special consideration will be given to students with financial need, but all students are encouraged to apply.
 
The BWPCC owns and operates the Berkshire Wind Power Project, a 12 turbine, 19.6-megawatt wind farm located on Brodie Mountain in Hancock and Lanesborough. The non-profit BWPCC consists of 16 municipal utilities located in Ashburnham, Boylston, Chicopee, Groton, Holden, Hull, Ipswich, Marblehead, Paxton, Peabody, Russell, Shrewsbury, Sterling, Templeton, Wakefield, and West Boylston, and their joint action agency, the Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company (MMWEC). 
 
To be considered, students must submit all required documents including a letter of recommendation from their school counselor and a letter detailing their educational and professional goals. Application and submission details will be shared with students via their school counselors. The deadline to apply is Friday, April 19.
 
 MMWEC is a not-for-profit, public corporation and political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts created by an Act of the General Court in 1975 and authorized to issue tax-exempt debt to finance a wide range of energy facilities.  MMWEC provides a variety of power supply, financial, risk management and other services to the state's consumer-owned, municipal utilities. 
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