Dewey Hall Dahlia Festival

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SHEFFIELD, Mass. — The second annual Dewey Hall Dahlia Festival will be held on Sunday Sept. 15, 2024 from noon-4pm. 
 
Attendees can view dahlia displays submitted for the homegrown dahlia contest, view bouquets available for purchase at the bouquet bar, and enjoy floral foods and beverages. There will also be facepainting, an assortment of local vendors, a garden information booth, and a raffle of fabulous horticultural prizes. 
 
The workshop room will feature workshops in floral arranging with dahlias, creating biodegradable flower crowns, and overwintering dahlia tubers (the workshops are ticketed and registration in advance is encouraged). Harpist Marie Hamilton will provide live harp music to accompany the event. 
 
To enter the homegrown dahlia contest fill out these forms by midnight on Sunday Sept. 8, 2024. Blooms will need to be dropped off at Dewey Memorial Hall on Saturday Sept. 14 between 2pm and 4pm. 
 
To enter the contest fill out this form by Sept. 8: https://forms.gle/G8xPEtFJVq89bviS7
 
 
Workshops
 
ASL interpretation services are available for the workshops if requested prior to Sept.1 by emailing deweyhalloffice@gmail.com. This service will be offered subject to interpreter availability. 
 
The Dewey Hall Dahlia Festival is sponsored by Webster Landscape Inc, One Mercantile/Sett, Windy Hill Farm, Clark, Green, and Bek, Campo de Fiori, John Field Tree Service, Ward’s Nursery, Acrisure, Race Mountain Tree Services, Inc., and Berkshire Mountain Distillery
 
All proceeds support the operation and preservation of the nonprofit Dewey Memorial Hall, an historic community and arts center in Sheffield since 1887.
 
 

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Connecticut Man Killed in Otis Tractor-Trailer Crash

OTIS, Mass. — Thursday's collision between two tractor-trailers on Route 8 killed one of the drivers. 
 
Antonio Luis Marcucci, 32 of Waterbury, Conn., was northbound at about 9 a.m. Thursday when he apparently lost control of the truck and veered into the southbound lanes, colliding head-on with a southbound tractor trailer, according to police. 
 
According to the Berkshire District Attorney's Office, police dispatched to 1322 South Main Road found the truck with Connecticut plates in the northbound lane and a truck bearing Oklahoma plates lodged in a snowback on south side. 
 
The officer began rendering aid to the northbound driver, identified as Marcucci. He was pinned inside the cab of his truck. He was extracated and transported to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield by Otis EMS, where he was pronounced dead.
 
The driver of the Oklahoma tractor trailer in the southbound lane did not receive serious injuries.
 
Early investigation, including dash camera footage captured by one of the tractor trailers, shows the Oklahoma tractor trailer was traveling in the southbound lane and the Connecticut tractor trailer was traveling in the northbound lane, according to the DA's Office. The Connecticut tractor trailer lost control veering off the other side of the road ultimately ending on the southbound lane. Shortly after the two tractor trailers collided in a head on collision.
 
The investigation remains ongoing.
 
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