NORTHFIELD — Starting the week of Nov. 9, the Selectboard will hold its meetings on Tuesdays at 6 p.m., instead of on Mondays.
NORTHFIELD — Tickets are still available for the Northfield Dive/Rescue Team’s raffle. The winners will be selected Nov. 10.
Tickets are $50, and give participants a chance to win one of three cash prizes: $5,000, $2,000 or $1,000. The raffle is limited to 300 tickets, and there are about 30 tickets left. The fundraiser is intended to help cover the Dive/Rescue Team’s operating expenses for the next year.
Contact team member Bill Ryan at 413-834-8088, or Fire Chief Floyd “Skip” Dunnell III at 413-498-2256 to buy tickets.
LEYDEN — Applications for Leyden Cultural Council grants, which support cultural activities in the arts, humanities and science, are being accepted until Nov. 16.
According to Cultural Council Chair Rhonda Wainshilbaum, the exact amount of grant money available this year is not yet known. Cultural Council grants support a variety of programs and activities such as workshops, performances, children’s programs, outdoor presentations, exhibits and online projects.
Applications can be submitted online. The forms and more information about the Cultural Council are available at mass-culture.org.
BERNARDSTON — The Selectboard voted to reduce the year’s fees for liquor licenses by 50 percent to help businesses struggling with the added burdens brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Selectboard Chair Stanley Garland said many businesses lost money when they had to close at the start of the pandemic. Now that they are reopening, there are added costs from purchasing sanitation supplies and other equipment to operate outdoors or under health safety guidelines. Garland said board members wanted to do something to help offset these expenses.
Fees before the reduction were $675 for wine and malt beverage restaurant licenses or a farmer series pouring permit; $970 for an all beverage restaurant license; $625 for the Country Corner Store’s all beverage retail license; and a $20 fee for the Veterans Club’s pouring license.
“It’s not much, but it’s the least we could do,” Garland said.
LEYDEN — The Franklin Regional Council of Governments’ Cooperative Public Health Service is holding a flu clinic at the Town Office building, 7 Brattleboro Road, from 10 a.m. to noon on Nov. 8.
Attendees are asked to print and fill out the form available at bit.ly/2IXTeLh, and bring the completed form with them to the flu clinic.