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THE RECORDER MONDAY MAY 31, 2010 Serving the people of Franklin County and the North Quabbin Region recorder.com 1792 ESTABLISHED GREENFIELD, MASS Classified advertising D2-D4 Comics C6 Death Notices, Obituaries A8, A2 Dollars Sense D1 Editorial page A6 Local news C1, C3 news A3, C7, C8 Puzzles D2 Sports B1-B4 news C5 Talk of the Towns C2 TV C5 INDEX For home delivery 413-774-2741 978-544-2118 By ARN ALBERTINI Recorder Staff OLD DEERFIELD Speakers urged the students in the 211th grad- uating class of Deerfield Academy to use their unique experience to serve their communities and the world. life well-lived should be meas- ured by service to the community and Philip Greer, president of the Board of Trustees, told the 189 graduates, their friends and families gathered on the lawns of Deerfield Academy on Sunday. The Class of 2010 was the first to have spent all four years with the first female headmaster, Margarita Curtis. much good can come as a result of serving said keynote speaker Rush M. McCloy.

just build character, it reveals McCloy graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1992 and since then has run marathons all around the world to raise money for pediatric cancer research. The events of Sept. 11, 2001, inspired him to join the Naval Reserves and on Sept. 11, 2007, he was called into active duty in Afghanistan, where he served for a year and helped develop counter- insurgency strategies and was awarded a Bronze Star. McCloy got his bachelor of arts degree from University of Virginia and later a in business administration in finance and entre- preneurial management from Wharton Business School and a mas- in International Relations from University of Pennsylvania.

He worked at JP Morgan Chase Securities in the investment banking and derivatives department, founded By JO SHIPLEY Special to The Recorder D-Day ended early in the morning of June 6, 1944, for Robert Kiley of Turners Falls. Kiley, a paratrooper with the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division, was dropped behind Utah Beach, Normandy, France, at just about 2 a.m. Veterans later recalled that the flight from England to France had been uneventful until their C-47 transports neared the drop zone. Then, dense cloud cover and heavy flak from German anti- aircraft guns caused the pilots to break formation and drop the paratroopers over a widely dispersed area. Pfc Kiley landed in an apple tree and was unlucky enough to be spotted by a German patrol.

One of them tossed a grenade up into the tree, severely wound- ing Kiley in the face and leg and blinding him in his right eye. Just a few hours later, Alex Kowalski of 75 Washington Greenfield, was aboard a landing craft approaching Omaha Beach, a few miles to the east of Utah. Kowalski, a staff sergeant with the 7th Field Artillery Battalion of the 1st Infantry Division, was a seasoned veter- an of World War II. He was one of the few who participated in and survived three amphibious invasions. He had gone ashore in North Africa, Sicily and Normandy.

Retired Lt. Col. Al Alvarez, who was a green private at Normandy, later recalled Kowalski as strong, firm, yet likeable and credited the veteran with not only teaching him the skills necessary to survive the war but also giving him the impetus to pursue a military career that lasted 32 years. After the Sicily campaign, Alverez By TED ANTHONY and MARY FOSTER Associated Press BOOTHVILLE, La. There is still a hole in the Earth, crude oil is still spewing from it and there is still, excruci- atingly, no end in sight.

After trying and trying again, one of the largest corporations, backed and pushed by the most powerful government, stop the run- away gusher. As desperation grows and ecological misery spreads, the operative word on the ground now is, incredibly, August the earliest moment that a real resolution could be at hand. And even then, no guarantee of success. For the United States and the people of its beleaguered Gulf Coast, a dispiriting summer of oil and anger lies dead ahead. Oh and the Atlantic hurricane season begins Tuesday.

The latest attempt using a remote robotic arm to stuff golf balls and assorted debris into the gash in the seafloor work. On Sunday, as churches echoed with prayers for a solution, BP PLC said it would focus on containment Recorder Staff The aftermath of Wednesday thunderstorms is still visible, but now that power is mostly back in Montague and Greenfield, both towns have lifted the official state of emergency declarations. utility crews and the fire departments did a great Montague Emergency Management Director Robert Escott. were working day and Power in both towns was mostly back on line by Saturday night. Western Massachusetts Electric Co.

deployed 130 line crews and 62 tree crews to help with those efforts, according to a press release from the Greenfield Fire Department. As of Sunday, two customers were without power in By DIANE BRONCACCIO Recorder Staff BUCKLAND If you glanced into the old of room this week at Mohawk Trail High School, you might have thought the ninth-graders were working intently on giant jig- saw puzzles. But what they were put- ting together was much better: glass tile mosaics of the 10 hilltowns around Shelburne Falls. If all goes as planned, visitors to Shelburne Falls will soon see these colorful mosaic landscapes on buildings throughout the village sometime in the fall. Mosaic artist Cynthia Fisher of Buckland has been creating mosaic murals in public buildings for at least a decade, through her business, Bang Among her works is a mosaic of sailboats on the Charles River for the Hospital of Boston and the bench (in honor of the hometown musician), which sits in the Springfield Quadrangle.

Her New England landscape mosaic is promi- nent in the UMass Medical Center, and a mosaic with famous quotes about the stars hangs in the Christa McAuliffe Planetarium in Concord, N.H. not do the same thing for my Fisher asked her- self. Last spring, Fisher started plan- A STORY OF TWO VETS File photo Troops landing on the Normandy beaches usually arrived in Higgins Boats like this one, known to the Navy as LCVPs, for Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel. Once down the ramp, soldiers like Sgt. Alex Kowalski, a Greenfield resident, had to wade ashore in the face of murderous fire from shore.

Sharing D-Day, much more DA Class of 2010 urged to serve others Today is Memorial Day, a federal holiday. All federal, state, regional and town government offices, public schools, post offices and libraries are closed. There is no mail delivery or trash pickup. Liquor stores are closed. Some retail stores may be open.

Banks and most service agencies are closed. The Recorder business offices are closed. Memorial Day closings About Town with Diane Broncaccio Machine shop Flea market combines with engine show in Bernardston. PAGE C1 Station dedication New Turners Falls fire station renamed to honor late chief. PAGE C1 Benjamin Blais Whately Elementary PAGE A7W A SUNNY Hilltowns getting mosaic touch Alexander Kowalski, Robert Kiley of Franklin County were also POWs See WAR Page A2 450 students lend a hand Franz Cindy Fisher, center, is the lead artist on the Shelburne Falls Mosaic Mural Project, making murals for hilltowns.

Students at Mohawk from left are Nick Doneilo, Nat Sherman, Jamie Hoynoski and Alma Crawford-Mendoza. See MOSAIC Page A8 See DA Page A8 working No end in sight for Gulf oil spill Emergency lifted locally See SPILL Page A8 See EMERGENCY Page A7 The utility crews and the fire departments did a great job. Robert Escott Montague Emergency Management director.