Mount Toby
Concerts hosting benefit for TASSN
LEVERETT — Mount Toby Concerts is hosting a benefit concert on Friday, March 31, to support the Trans Asylum Seekers Support Network (TASSN), a solidarity-based network supporting queer and transgender asylum seekers in the United States.
Annie Patterson and Peter Blood will perform starting at 7 p.m. They will also lead sing-along numbers.
The concert will be held at 194 Long Plain Road (Route 63) in Leverett and will be family-friendly. Copies of Patterson and Blood’s songbooks, “Rise Up Singing” and “Rise Again,” will be available to buy or borrow for the evening.
A suggested donation of $20 is requested, although folks can pay more or less as needed. Tickets are at the door — if still available — and at bit.ly/3LUHjfG. Attendees are asked to wear masks.
CONWAY — Applications for the Friends of the Field Memorial Library’s $500 scholarship are now available through May 1.
To be eligible, students must be a resident of Conway, be graduating high school (or home school) and maintain good academic standing. Applicants are also required to submit an essay on the topic: “What do you see as the benefits and drawbacks of artificial intelligence in your professional future?”
To get an application, contact your high school guidance counselor, go to fieldmemoriallibrary.org or email Thad Bennett at FieldMemLibraryScholarship@gmail.com.
CONWAY — The Selectboard’s second public forum on Transfer Station policies will be held on Thursday, April 13 at Town Hall, 5 Academy Hill Road, at 5:30 p.m.