Lenox Library Hosts Bestselling Novelists

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LENOX, Mass. — The Lenox Library will conclude the 2022-2023 season of its Distinguished Lecture Series on Sunday, April 30, 2023 at 4:00 p.m. with bestselling novelists Aimee Molloy and Jillian Medoff.
 
Join novelists Aimee Molloy and Jillian Medoff in a conversation about fiction, writing, and living a creative life. They'll share how they published their first novels, how they get ideas, and how they know when something is finished.
 
Aimee Molloy is the New York Times best-selling author of two novels, "Goodnight Beautiful" and "The Perfect Mother," which was translated into more than twenty-five languages and has been optioned by HBOMax. She is also the author of several books of non-fiction, including "However Long the Night" and "Rosewater," which was made into a movie written and directed by Jon Stewart. She lives in the Berkshires with her family.
 
Jillian Medoff is the author of "When We Were Bright and Beautiful." She also has written four other novels: "This Could Hurt," "I Couldn't Love You More" (national bestseller), "Good Girls Gone Bad," and "Hunger Point." "Hunger Point" was made into an original cable movie starring Christina Hendricks and Barbara Hershey and directed by Joan Micklin Silver (Lifetime TV, 2003). A former fellow at MacDowell, Blue Mountain Center, VCCA and Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain, Medoff has an MFA from New York University.
 
The lecture is free and open to the public and will take place in the main reading room of the Library, located at 18 Main Street, Lenox. Please visit https://lenoxlib.org or the Library's Facebook page for more information.
 

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Dalton Fire District Voters OK Annual Meeting Articles

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
DALTON, Mass. — Voters approved all articles but one on the warrant at the annual Fire District meeting on Tuesday night at the Stationery Factory.
 
Some 48 voters attended the meeting, which lasted an hour and 40 minutes, to vote on several articles that make up a total budget of $3,663,081. 
 
However, that amount was reduced to $3,660,581 after voters decided the town would assume responsibility for funding the required 50 percent match for a state Department of Conservation and Recreation grant.
 
If approved, the grant covers forest fighting in fiscal year 2027. The Fire District and the town are separate governing entities, and under state law, responsibility for funding the Forest Warden position and all related expenses falls to the town.
 
Historically, the district has included a $2,500 article to fund the match, but this year the request was "tabled." However, because articles at annual meetings cannot formally be tabled, the action effectively resulted in the request failing.
 
"The Forest Warden budget does provide enough money to supply. I believe it's $3,900 … within the budget to cover that amount of money," the town's Finance Committee chair  William Drosehn said. 
 
Drosehn, who also moderated the annual meeting, clarified before making the comment that he was speaking in his capacity as finance chair.
 
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