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Town Manager Paul Sieloff is retiring.

Lanesborough Town Manager Sieloff to Retire

By Andy McKeeveriBerkshires Staff
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LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — Town Manager Paul Sieloff is retiring.
 
Sieloff told the Board of Selectmen on Monday night that he plans to retire this summer after nearly six years with the town. He said he'll be working on a transition plan to the next manager.
 
"It has been a great five and a half years. It has been great working with the board," he said. 
 
Sieloff said he is still focused on getting the warrant together for town meeting and closing out some of the projects he has been working on. He's eyeing retirement after town meeting but hasn't set a specific date, saying he'll be around. He hopes to advertise for his replacement this week.
 
"We'll have a good transition and everything will work out. I'm not going to disappear. I'll be available," he said
 
Sieloff came to Lanesborough in 2012, after four years in Wellfleet. He had previously worked as a budget analyst with the Albany (N.Y.) County Office of Budget Analysis, as village manager in Northport, N.Y., and in Valley Stream, N.Y. He has a master's in political science with a concentration of state of local government. 
 
He also was the town's first full-time town manager. When Town Administrator Paul Boudreau left after 13 years, the town hired Joseph Kellogg on a part-time basis as it considered making what was then a part-time job into a full-time post. That July, the town meeting approved the full-time position and Sieloff was later hired. The position title was changed to town manager several years later. 
 
In 2015, the Board of Selectmen extended his contract with a new three-year agreement, which would be coming to an end this year.

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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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