Fall Foliage Leaf Hunt Winners 2019

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Northern Berkshire Fall Foliage Festival Leaf Hunt Committee has announced the conclusion of this year's hunt.  All winners, non-winners and sponsors are thanked for their participation. Colors and trees dominated the 2019 locations.  
 
 
Results are as follows:
 
1.      Au national symbol: Golden Eagle Clarksburg by Alison Czarnecki, North Adams
 
2.      Evergreen not golden, Fir Inn: Pine Lodge Trailer Park, Williamstown found but unclaimed
 
3.      Now favorite fishing hole: The Spruces, Williamstown, by Annette Czarnecki, Williamstown
 
4.      Colorful former water source: Red Mills, Clarksburg, by Jane Bryce, North Adams
 
5.      Sugary Lane, Sweet place to stay in Billsville: Maple Terrace Motel, Williamstown, not found
 
6.      Sugary Forest: Maple Grove Equipment, Adams, by Lacey Cyr, Florida
 
7.      Multi-colored hut: Rainbow Shack, Adams, by Jaye and Irene Fox, North Adams
 
8.      Church and Road of the same name: White Oaks, Williamstown, by Holly Sumner, Florida
 
9.      Retire in the Berkshires: Sweetwood, Williamstown, by Anne Sulzmann, North Adams
 
10.    Not poisonous condos: Hemlock Brook, Williamstown, by Margaret Sulzmann North Adams
 
11.     Native American Copse, Trail Woods: Mohawk Forest, North Adams, not found
 
12.     Live on the Edge: Pine Ridge Village, North Adams, by Liam Hooks North Adams
 
13.     Buried under the foliage: Maple Street Cemetery, Adams, by Kim Bissaillon, North Adams
 
14.     Leaf peepers by air or land: Tourists, North Adams, by Sara Czarnecki, North Adams
 
15.     42.6977370,-73.1108483: Telephone company (yellow pages), North Adams, by Hannah Hooks North Adams
 
16.     42.7118266,-730960937: JT Tietgens (yellow school buses), Clarksburg, by Jessica Andrews North Adams
 
17.     42.6072670,-73.1245140: DuFour (yellow school buses), Adams, by Brenda Armstrong, North Adams
 
18.     I'm called by one but contain many colors, Flowers at the base of the hills: Mount Williams Greenhouse, North Adams, not found
 
19.     Fall up, not down, Seasonal altitude: Autumn Heights, North Adams, not found
 
20.     Weeping foliage: The Willows Motel, Williamstown, not found
 
The invisible clues were much more popular this year with entrants from North Adams, Adams, Cheshire, Pittsfield and Williamstown.  In some cases winners were determined by the earliest postmark. Results are as follows:
 
1.  "Back in the days to see beautiful Fall Foliage from an elevated spot" you went to Petey Dinks, on the Clarksburg/North Adams line, also known as Mountain View, on Wheeler Avenue where many showers and parties were celebrated: Gail Nelson of North Adams
 
2.  Although we look for colorful red, orange and yellow leaves, this favorite wedding reception and party spot in Cheshire carried the name of Green Acres. In North Adams the Blue Spruce tourist home offered rooms while in the Drury section of Florida we associate another color with longtime family business Brown's Garage: Hazel Hancock of North Adams
 
3.  Near the Adams/North Adams line the Orange Squeeze Bottling Co. on Howland Avenue in the Zylonite section produced many favorite flavors.  A tie between Peggy Oleskiewicz of Williamstown and Marilyn and Ed Wojieck of Adams.
 
The above-mentioned winners received prizes generously donated by Wild Oats, Walmart, Pedrin's Dairy Bar, North Adams Museum of History and Science, Chee's Restaurant, Freight Yard Pub, Boston Seafoods, Planet Fitness, North Adams MoviePlex 8, and Big Y.  
 
Special thanks to Pedrin's Dairy Bar for serving as leaf redemption center and to Tammy Daniels of iBerkshires and Jeannie Maschino of the Berkshire Eagle for posting the clues in a timely fashion.

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Freight Yard Pub Serving the Community for Decades

By Breanna SteeleiBerkshires Staff

One of the eatery's menu mainstays is the popular French onion soup. 
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Freight Yard Pub has been serving the community for decades with a welcoming atmosphere and homemade food.
 
Siblings Sean and Colleen Taylor are the owners Freight Yard Pub. They took it over with their brother Kevin and Colleen's first husband in 1992. The two came from Connecticut and Boston to establish a restaurant and said they immediately felt welcomed in their new home.
 
"The reception that the community gave us in the beginning was so warm and so welcoming that we knew we found home," Colleen Taylors said. "We've made this area our homes since then, as a matter of fact, all of our friends and relationships came out of Freight Yard Pub."
 
The pub is located in Western Gateway Heritage State Park, and its decor is appropriately train-themed, as the building it's in used to be part of the freight yard, but it also has an Irish pub feel. It is the only original tenant still operating in the largely vacant park. The Taylors purchased the business after it had several years of instability and closures; they have run it successfully for more than three decades.
 
Colleen and Sean have been working together since they were teenagers. They have operated a few restaurants, including the former Taylor's on Holden Street, and currently operate takeout restaurant Craft Food Barn, Trail House Kitchen & Bar and Berkshire Catering Co. 
 
"Sean and I've been working together. Gosh, I think since we were 16, and we have a wonderful business relationship, where I know what I cover, he knows what he covers," she said. "We chat every single day, literally every day we have a morning phone call to say, OK, checking in."
 
The two enjoy being a part of the community and making sure to lend a hand to those who made them feel so welcome in the first place.
 
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