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The Double Whammy Facing Becket’s Beech Trees

I first noticed it in early June. Mis-colored, crinkly leaves on the beech trees encircling our backyard. When I started noticing the same odd-colored leaves on trees throughout Becket, I knew I had to look it up. Sure enough. It’s a thing. A really bad thing.

Becket’s Bee Gillespie Sees No Place for Hate

Bee Gillespie, explains that the joy they find in meeting people and making friends, along with their desire to create change, were the drivers behind them joining and becoming a leader in the school’s No Place for Hate organization. The group’s work is designed to create

Ad Hoc Building Committee Work Underway

whose formation was initiated by the Town Administrator and approved by the Select Board, has begun its work to review four Town facilities to assess potential maintenance and improvement options. The Committee kicked off in October, and tours have since been conducted at all of the sites: