Axt, Patel Lead Team to LYBA/WYBA Final

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Alex Axt and Tej Patel scored six points apiece to lead Mickle Electric to a 20-18 win over Williamstown Police in the semifinals of the Lanesborough/Williamstown Youth Basketball Asssociation on Tuesday.
 
In a back-and-forth game that came down to the final minute, Max McAlister and Seamus Barnes led WPD with six each.
 
Mickle moves on to Wednesday's championship game, where it will face MacFarland Office Products. In the regular season, the teams went 2-2 against one another.
 
Last weekend, the Greylock fifth- and sixth-grade boys basketball travel team reached the quarter-finals of the Adams tournament at Hoosac Valley High School.
 
The Boys Club Blue team ended Greylock's run in a 37-32 final on Sunday morning. Anthony Telladero scored 10 for Boys Club.
 
For Greylock, Derek paris scored 17, including nine on 3-pointers, and Thomas Martin added seven.
 
This week, the travel league shifts to the North Adams Armory for action that gets under way on Friday night.
 
Greylock will host the county travel league championships Feb. 26-28 at Mount Greylock and Williamstown Elementary School.
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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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