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Lee Middle and High School Announces Graduation Speakers

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LEE, Mass. — Isabella Hall and Nox Colello have been named the valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively, for Lee High School's class of 2026.
 
They will speak at the school's 149th graduation exercises on Saturday, June 6, at 1:30 p.m. at Tanglewood in Lenox. 
 
Hall is the daughter of Shaun and Ella Hall of Lee. She is a recipient of the St. Anselm College Book Award and the Rensselaer (N.Y.) Polytechnic Institute Medal. During high school, she was a member of the school chorus and the Western Massachusetts Senior District Chorus, student government, the Social Justice Club, National Honor Society, the Fall Festival of Shakespeare and the spring musical, the Berkshire Theatre Group youth chorus and touring shows, and the soccer team. 
 
Hall plans on attending Emerson College in Boston in the fall, majoring in business of creative enterprises.
 
Colello is the child of Christopher Colello of Pittsfield and Sara Armstrong of Pittsfield and was awarded the Certificate of Academic Excellence from the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents, the St. Lawrence University Book Award, and the University of Rochester (N.Y.) Frederick Douglas and Susan B. Anthony Award, and is a John and Abigail Adams Scholar. In high school, they participated in band and chorus, as a member and president of the school's Gay Straight Alliance, the Social Justice Club, the Fall Festival of Shakespeare and the spring musical each year, the National Honor Society, and the Barrington Stage Playwright Mentor Project.  
 
Colello plans on attending Berkshire Community College as a business major, and the School of Makeup Effects in New Jersey.

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Sheffield Man Charged with Murdering Connecticut Man

Update 4:52 p.m.: The victim has been identified as 40-year-old Michael Moore of Winsted, Conn.
 
Bushnell pleaded not guilty in District Court and his being held without right to bail and a no-contact order to witnesses. 
 
The witness who contacted police Monday said the defendant had shown him the body under a mattress in a greenhouse on the property. The witness was able to leave the property and immediately drove to a Connecticut State Police station near to his location.
 
According to the DA's Office, there were signs of blunt force trauma to Moore's head and a puncture wound in his back. Bushnell apparently returned to his property later that day because of reports his house was on fire; police believe that was prompted by the emergency dispatch calls. 
 
When the defendant returned to the house, "he was wearing clothes stained in reddish/brown consistent with blood," according to the DA's Office.
 
Bushnell, a local painting contractor, and the victim had a friendship and professional connection, including being friends on Facebook. Both men were painters and sometimes worked together, according to the DA's Office, and, prior to the murder, there was a conflict between the defendant and victim regarding a shared job.
 
"Additionally, leading up to the murder the defendant began to demonstrate paranoid behavior and also altered the position of and turned off other security cameras around his property,"  according to the DA's Office.
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