🌱 Otis cheese expert joins elite judging panel at The Big E
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- Otis cheese expert joins elite judging panel at The Big E
Today's riddle: What did the carpenter ant say when he walked into the bar? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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📰 News we're reading
• Gold Medal Cheese Competition Returns to Eastern States Exposition (morningagclips.com) — Otis residents may be interested to know that local cheese expert Stephanie Skinner of Otis will help judge this year’s Gold Medal Cheese Competition at The Big E in West Springfield. New England cheesemakers can enter by July 8 for a chance at recognition, feedback from an expert panel, and retail exposure at the Eastern States Farmers Market during the fair. 
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- CDS (Club Demonstration Services) posted a job opening for Part Time Product Demonstrator in Costco in Blandford. Apply here.
- Big Y Foods, Inc. posted a job opening for Bakery Clerk in Great Barrington. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Otis here.
🗞 Nearby News
Becket
- Becket: Crewdson, Irion headline BAC program (berkshireeagle.com)
- Wahconah Regional High School 2026 Awards & Scholarships (berkshireeagle.com)
Lee
- Lee on Legs & Wheels: 250 Years of Personal Transportation (theberkshireedge.com)
- Pride Month is here. Here's what's happening in the Berkshires as Berkshire Pride marks its 10th season (berkshireeagle.com)
- The cleanup plan for Reach 5A outlines five years of work to remove PCBs from the Housatonic River beginning in Pittsfield (berkshireeagle.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Is the bar tender here? (Thank you W. M. for sending it in!)
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