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Robbin Simonetti, Angie Lingner and "I've applied for one,job," Lingner said,
~:Elaine. Williams were comfortably em- ."but I don't have my resume done yet"
,'plQyed' ass purses at North Ad<Yll§.Re- The former- nurses were among a large
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Ben Garver / Berkshire Eagle Staff/ photos.berkshireeegle.com '. at the'2014 Berkshire CareerFair at employers.zthe majority based in the
Former NARHRN's Mafia Gancarz and Angie LiD.gi'ei tak,
Berkshire Hills Country Club.
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abolJtJob bunting at the 2014 ~erkshife ,Career Fait at the : ., :'It'~
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When' asked how many of her former
colleagues were in at Thursday's job fair,
Simonetti·said, "quite afew of them,"
Then she paused for a moment.
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Another slight pause.
'~&st all of them."
Danielle Thomas of the Berkshire
Chamber of Commerce, the job fair's host'
organization, said more than 100 people
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WINTER PARK -'- A manhunt across Horida ended
Thursday with the surrender
of a driver blamed in a deadly crash at' a 'day care that
injured 14 and killed-a,4-year~
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in Winter Park was torn open attended :within~the ,j'irst two" representative Anna' Chapman: She said, several former
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