Letter: New Name for Apkin

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To the Editor:

George Apkin & Sons Inc., would like to share with you some exciting news about our company. We have been working on a strategic plan to ensure that we will be able to continue servicing all our industrial and dealer customers seamlessly for the long term. To ensure that success, we have recently partnered with the Joseph Freedman Co. in Springfield and its affiliates, Perlman Recycling in Pittsfield and Eastern Vehicle Recycling in Westfield.

We are very excited for the depth that this partnership brings. They have a long history dating back 132 years, a great reputation, a professional and friendly team, and a full suite of metal recycling services to further complement our operations.

The only real change will be a small name change to: Apkin Inc. All of our employees in Adams are staying onboard in their current positions, and both of us (Joe Apkin and Bill Apkin) will be staying on as well. Joe Apkin will be leading the company as president, and Bill Apkin will be staying onboard in an advisory role. Sally Cable and Cindi McLain will remain in the office for anything you need.

We appreciate the community that we work with, and it is important to us that we sustain the reputaton and the standing that we have built. To ensure that, we have worked trelessly to make sure that we have partnered with a company that shares our values. We are confident that you will not be disappointed by the transiton.

Thank you to all who have supported us through the years, we look forward to a new chapter.

Joe & Bill Apkin, the Apkin Team
Adams,Mass. 

 

 

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Dalton's White Wins Greylock Road Race

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ADAMS, Mass. – Dalton’s Alexander White and Worcester’s Rachael Hurley were the top male and female finishers at the 51st running of the Mount Greylock Road Race on Sunday.
 
White covered the 8-mile course up the commonwealth’s highest peak in 50 minutes, 21.61 seconds, beating the field by nearly 47 seconds.
 
Boxford’s Danny Cosgrove was the runner-up in 52:08.36 in the event put on by Pittsfield’s Berkshire Running Center.
 
Hurley finished 11th overall and first among the women with a time of 1:06:59.34 and a mile pace of 8 minutes, 22 seconds.
 
In all, 124 runners finished the race with the final finisher hitting the summit in 2:48:03.
 
The first Berkshire County woman across the finish line was North Adams’ Olivia Dalton, who placed 23rd overall and fifth among all female runners with a time of 1:13:02.59.
 
Among the younger runners, Marlborough’s Ben Stephan led the males 13-19 with a time of 1:09:45.75 that was good for 13th place overall. The fastest female teen runner was Dalton’s Megan Tucker, who clocked a time of 1:45:02.36.
 
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