‘Suzy Polucci Films in Memoriam’ event at Wendell Meetinghouse

WENDELL — The Wendell Meetinghouse plans to host a “Suzy Polucci Films in Memoriam” event from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Nov. 2.

Organized by Nina Keller and local filmmaker Dan Keller, archival footage of various Polucci performances will be shown. Admission is free but donations to support Friends of the Wendell Meetinghouse are encouraged. Polucci was an Erving resident who died in 2018 at age 63.

“This postmortem film show allows us to re-experience the exuberant multi-faceted theatrical faces we loved, those personalities Suzy invited into our lives,” Nina Keller said in a statement.

Polucci moved to Franklin County in the early 1980s and participated in an array of local community and creative projects, and thrilled audiences with her work in live theater, where she excelled as a writer, director, actor, comic, and satirist. With others in the region, she created entertaining, political, and educational performances in solo shows and with several ensembles, including Blue Angel Arts and Thin Ice Theater. She had a popular TED talk that combined hilarity with information regarding neurological functions of the human brain. The TED Talk can be viewed at: tinyurl.com/SuzyPolucci.

According to her obituary, Polucci died at home on March 27, 2018, following a rapid decline due to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare and fatal condition affecting the brain. While experiencing puzzling undiagnosed symptoms in December 2017, she reportedly wrote to a close friend, “I feel fragile and mortal, and I want to marry all my friends and never let them go.”

For more information on this event, contact Court Dorsey at courtcdorsey@gmail.com or visit www.wendellmeetinghouse.org.

Swift River School Council needs volunteers

NEW SALEM — The Swift River School Council needs some caregiver and community representatives, according to the New Salem News.

This group meets approximately four to six times each school year. Its primary purpose is to adopt educational goals consistent with local educational policies and statewide student performance standards, and to identify educational needs of students attending the school.

The group also will review the annual school building budget and help to formulate the school improvement plan. Anyone interested should email Principal Kelley Sullivan at sullivan@swiftriverschool.org.

Harris resigns from Orange Cemetery Commission

ORANGE – Glen Harris has stepped down from the Orange Cemetery Commission.

The Selectboard unanimously accepted Harris’ resignation at its Oct. 30 meeting.

The Commission consists of three members and is scheduled to have a joint meeting with the Selectboard on Nov. 13 to appoint Harris’ replacement. Anyone willing to take on the position can submit a letter of interest to the Selectboard’s administrative assistant, Brianne Bruso, at taadmin@townoforange.org no later than Nov. 7.