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Louison House Envisions Future Housing FacilitiesBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:58AM / Monday, October 16, 2023 | |
Director Kathy Keeser addresses the annual meeting last week, the first time it's been in person since 2019. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Louison House has been providing temporary shelter for more than 30 years. Now it's looking for a more permanency as the need for emergency and transitional housing has grown. And it's going to need support from its partners and city officials to overcome resistance to the idea, Executive Director Kathy Keeser said at the shelter's annual meeting last week at the Green on Main Street. The nonprofit housed more than 200 people in the past year. Louison House has a good relationship with the motels it's been using 0 Comments
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City Woman Wins Hometown Holidays Gift Basket |
Jonathan Secor had some help in pulling the winning ticket.
Congrats to Janet O'Neill of North Adams who won the big Hometown Holidays gift basket on Thursday. O'Neill won some $1,300 worth of gift certificates and merchandise.
The drawing could be entered by spending $50 downtown during the Thursday night Hometown Holiday events. Jonathan Secor of MCLA Gallery 51 said 62 people had entered the contest (including the editor of iBerkshires &mdash amazing how much cat toys cost nowadays).
Secor contacted O'Neill who was excited and surprised at winning. "No, I'm not kidding," Secor assured her
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