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| News and events in South Berkshire, Mass.
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1Berkshire Welcomes Youth Leadership Program Class | 02:15PM / Monday, August 14, 2023 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — 1Berkshire welcomes its 13th class into the Berkshire Youth Leadership Program. This group of 27 rising high school juniors from across the Berkshires was selected through a competitive application process to begin a year-long leadership development program that kicked off in June with a three-day, two-night retreat held at Camp Becket. The 1Berkshire Youth Leadership Program is focused on helping students in the region develop and grow through career opportunity awareness, leadership skill development, and the design and completion of a 9-month-long collective-impact project focused on positively impacting the Berkshires. Selected students have shown 0 Comments
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South County Overnight Construction Operations on I-90| 04:33PM / Sunday, August 13, 2023 | |
LEE, Mass. — The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) announced that crews will be conducting overnight hour line striping work and median pier protection, barrier installation and pavement marking operations on I-90 eastbound and westbound in Becket, Otis, Lee, West Stockbridge and Stockbridge. The work will be conducted at various times and locations from Monday, Aug. 14, through Friday, Aug. 18. Lane closures will be in place during repair operations and traffic will be able to travel through the work zones. The schedule for the work and lane closures will be as follows: Becket/Otis Line striping operations will be conducted nightly on 0 Comments
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CHP Berkshires is On the Road with New Mobile Health VehiclesStaff Reports ,
11:28AM / Sunday, August 13, 2023 | |
 GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — The CHP Berkshires Mobile Health Team is bringing more health care and food security to Berkshires with the addition of two new mobile health vehicles. A third, a mobile dental clinic, is on the way. These new rolling health care vehicles and their clinical staff were introduced on Thursday, Aug. 10, 5-7 p.m., at the Southern Berkshire Chamber After Hours Event at Crissey Farm, hosted by CHP Berkshires. Guests toured the vans, talked with staff, and learned about the importance of mobile health. This year, CHP's old 2002 mobile health van was finally retired. In 2019, CHP partnered with Berkshire-Fallon (the 0 Comments
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Tree Identification Walk in Lower Bowker's Woods| 04:13PM / Friday, August 11, 2023 | |
 STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — Berkshire Environmental Action Team (BEAT) will lead a free tree identification walk on Sunday, Aug. 20, at 9:30 AM. Participants will meet at the trailhead of Lower Bowker's Woods, a Laurel Hill Association property located near Stockbridge. The walk will last between 1.5 and 2 hours. Anybody is welcome to join, but the number of participants is limited. Registration is required to join. Register at this link: https://tinyurl.com/August2023-BEAT-Tree-ID Participants will learn key characteristics of common trees in western Massachusetts and get tips to help identify them by species. The 1-mile trail meanders along the Housatonic 0 Comments
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New Marlborough to Celebrate Elihu Burritt Day| 12:10PM / Friday, August 11, 2023 | |
 NEW MARLBOROUGH, Mass. — New Marlborough will host its 47th annual Elihu Burritt Day on Saturday, Aug. 19 from 10 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The event will take place on the Village Green (Route 57) in New Marlborough. The free town fair offers fun and entertainment for all ages, including live music, local arts and crafts vendors, food, and a live pet parade, with domesticated and farm animals. Hot sausage and pepper sandwiches, tacos, hamburgers and hot dogs, baked goods, ice pops, lemonade, vegetarian fare, and other delectable treats will be available from food vendors. Local crafters will sell their wares in Individual booths featuring antiques, artwork, 0 Comments
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Great Barrington Opens Mid-Year CPA Funding CycleStaff Reports ,
11:08AM / Thursday, August 10, 2023 | |
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — The Great Barrington Community Preservation Committee (CPC) will hold a special "off-cycle" funding round for organizations with projects that meet CPA funding criteria. Organizations must demonstrate to the CPC that their projects are "shovel-ready" and that funds are urgently needed. If the CPC agrees, and if funds are available, the committee may recommend that voters approve the grants at a Special Town Meeting this coming October. Applications are due by close of business on Aug. 28; to request an application or more information, email Chris Rembold, crembold@townofgb.org. The CPA was adopted by the voters of 0 Comments
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Berkshire Money Management Welcomes New Employee| 08:30AM / Thursday, August 10, 2023 | |
 GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Berkshire Money Management (BMM), the full-service financial advising firm with offices in Dalton and Great Barrington, announced the expansion of its Great Barrington team with the addition of Airen Wadsworth as Front Office Coordinator. As the Front Office Coordinator, Airen is the first person to welcome guests to the new Great Barrington office at 72 Stockbridge Road. His goal is to help every client and visitor feel comfortable, at home, and part of the BMM culture. He will also support the firm with scheduling, data entry, and other vital tasks. Airen, a lifelong resident of Lee, earned his bachelor's degree in business 0 Comments
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LitNet Revamps Website to Better Serve Learners, TutorsBy Brittany Polito, iBerkshires Staff
06:02AM / Thursday, August 10, 2023 | |
LEE, Mass. — The Literacy Network has launched a new website that furthers its mission of serving the county's immigrant population through language assistance, U.S. citizenship information, and other resources.
This is the first overhaul of LitNet's website in eight years and features improved translation and an intranet gathering space that allows around 160 volunteers to communicate with each other and staff. The new page was created by Brickhouse Web Design of Pittsfield and was made possible by a grant from the Feigenbaum Foundation.
Executive Director Leigh Doherty compared the former page to a closet in an old house that was so jam-packed it was hard to find
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Trustees Receive Grant to Digitalize Ashley House Collection | 01:30PM / Wednesday, August 09, 2023 | |
BOSTON — The Trustees of Reservations (The Trustees) Archives & Research Center has received a grant for over $344,819 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support a project called "A Tale of Two Communities in Two Centuries." This two-year initiative will process, conserve, and digitize two sets of archives currently inaccessible in The Trustees' collections: the Colonel John Ashley Papers (1755-1818), and the archives of the Boston Natural Areas Network (1977-2014) that includes over 50 Boston Community Gardens. "Spaced nearly two centuries apart and at geographically opposite ends of the state, these collections hold powerful 0 Comments
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Mount Everett Artists Featured in Exhibit| 11:24AM / Wednesday, August 09, 2023 | |
SHEFFIELD, Mass. — Seven student artists from Mount Everett Regional School were selected to have their artwork featured in the "How Shall We Live" exhibit at the Berkshire Art Center. Students created their artwork as a response to the climate crisis, presented by Living the Change Berkshires, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to address climate change and climate justice with urgency, creativity, hope, and optimism on a local level. The student artwork will be displayed on Friday, Aug. 4, for First Friday in Pittsfield, until Wednesday, Aug. 30. "We have some very talented students at Mount Everett who have spent time researching the 0 Comments
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W.E.B. Du Bois Sculpture Project Selects ArtistStaff Reports ,
05:39PM / Tuesday, August 08, 2023 | |
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — The W.E.B. Du Bois Sculpture Project has selected artist Richard Blake to create a monument to W.E.B. Du Bois that will be placed in front of the town's Mason Public Library. Blake was one of three finalists who presented models of their proposed statues to the Sculpture Project jury. The models were displayed to the public at the Mason Library in Great Barrington and at the Berkshire Athenaeum in Pittsfield. "All three of our applicants were talented, highly regarded sculptors, each with a unique vision of Du Bois," said jury leader and board member Lauren Clark, a gallerist. She was joined on that panel by painter/sculptor 0 Comments
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Fairview Hospital Receives Recognition for Quality Patient Care and Experience| 10:55AM / Tuesday, August 08, 2023 | |
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Fairview Hospital, a Critical Access Hospital and an affiliate of Berkshire Health Systems, has been awarded a five-star rating by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for quality patient care. The overall rating, between one and five stars, provides consumers with a summary of a hospital's overall quality performance averaged into a single summary score, with five-stars being the highest rating. Scores are determined from a variety of data reported, including mortality, safety of care, timely and effective care, readmissions, and patient experience. Fairview Hospital is one of two hospitals in Massachusetts to earn the 0 Comments
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