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MASSIVE HOUSE CLEANING SALE!!

$0.50 ¢ to $100 !!! Complete home furnishings!! Furniture, lamps, tables, dining room, bedrooms!! Complete room accessories!! Priced to sell! Many Items NEW!!!  594 Main Street Becket MA – fenced yard across from Becket Country Store & Café.  Every Sunday in May.

Paint/Oil collections slated for South Berkshire Towns

CET will coordinate three separate collections of oil paint, stains, paint thinners, and turpentine, as well as waste motor oil in Lenox and Great Barrington for South Berkshire Towns. Pre-registration with CET is required.
This program is sponsored by the 15 towns that form the South Berkshire Household Hazardous Waste Collaborative.  The participating towns are: Alford, Becket, Egremont, Great Barrington, Lee, Lenox, Monterey, Mount Washington, New Marlborough, Otis, Richmond, Sheffield,  Stockbridge, Tyringham, and West Stockbridge. 

Saturday, May 17, 9 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Lenox Department of Public Works
275 Main Street (Across from Mass Highway

Saturday, June 14, 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Great Barrington Recycling Center
Route 7 (across from Monument Mountain High School)

Latex paint will not be accepted at any events.  Usable paint can be given away through www.freecycle.org or some non-profits.  Empty or dried-up cans of latex paint can be disposed with the regular trash.  Empty cans of oil-based paint, stains and solvents can be disposed with the regular trash as well.
To pre-register or for information about what can be brought to the collection, visit www.cetonline.org or email amandad@cetonline.org or call Amanda at 413-445-4556 ext. 17.  Residents from communities that are not participating should call their City or Town Hall for information about household hazardous product collections.

Town Hall Information:
8 Summit Hill Road
Washington, MA 01223
Ph: 413-623-8878
Fax: 413-623-2116
Hours:
Monday - 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Town Clerk: Allison Mikaniewicz

Selectmen Meetings: Monday evenings

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White Wolf Septic & Portables
600 Upper Valley Road
Washington, MA. 01223
Phone: 413-623-5079
Fax: 413-623-5654
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Proprietors: Craig H. Willis & Paul M. Willis
Office Manager: Paul A. Lisi, Jr.
Office hours: Monday - Friday: 7:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
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Berkshire Taconic Announces New Grants for Community Initiatives  in Central Berkshires 

Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation today announced that its Central Berkshire Fund is offering two-year grants of up to $38,000 for nonprofit initiatives that support health, education, culture, environment, childcare or human services in Dalton, Hinsdale, Peru, Becket, Cummington, Windsor and Washington, MA.
"This community impact grant, which is being funded by an anonymous donor, gives the fund the opportunity to significantly help residents of the central Berkshire region, said John Kittredge, chair of the advisory committee of the Central Berkshire Fund.
The community impact grant may be one grant of $38,000 or two of lesser amounts. Organizations that apply for the community impact grant remain eligible to apply to the annual grant program of the Central Berkshire Fund. 
Funded projects must begin on or after January 1, 2009; project funding concludes on December 31, 2010 at the latest.
To apply, nonprofit groups must submit a letter of interest to Berkshire Taconic by May 31.  The advisory committee of the Central Berkshire Fund will review the letters and select two to four projects to be developed into full proposals.  The committee must receive full proposals by September 1 and will announce grant recipients in January 2009.
Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation builds stronger communities and improves the quality of life for all residents in the region it serves: Berkshire County, MA; Columbia County and northeast Dutchess County, NY; and northwest Litchfield County, CT.  Founded in 1987, Berkshire Taconic currently has over 500 funds and manages more than $84 million in assets.  Each year, it distributes more than $7 million through grants and scholarships, helping thousands of donors achieve their philanthropic goal and hundreds of nonprofits carry on their good work.