Pittsfield Green Drink to Host Waste Reduction Specialist

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Mary Stucklen will speak at the October Pittsfield Green Drinks event on Tuesday, Oct. 18, at 6:00 p.m. on Zoom.

Stucklen will talk about all things waste: reducing waste, easy ways to reuse, as well as how to compost and recycle effectively. She will also give out some simple tips and tricks that everyone can do to reduce the amount of waste they’re producing.

Stucklen is a local to the Berkshires and is a volunteer in the community. She has participated in various local green committees, waste-reduction programs, conservation commissions, and even began BEAT’s Berkshire Zero-Waste Initiative.

Most recently, Stucklen started a compost service named after her son, Tommy’s Compost, and is working to reduce waste in the Berkshires. When she isn’t talking about waste, she can be found kayaking, hiking, and enjoying the beautiful outdoors with her family.

This event will take place on Zoom and registration is required to join. Those interested can register at https://tinyurl.com/Oct2022-Green-Drinks

Pittsfield Green Drinks is sponsored by the Berkshire Environmental Action Team.

BArT Grads Express Gratitude, Aim for Continued Growth

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
05:29PM / Saturday, June 01, 2024

Marissa Ostrowski and M. Madeline Schrade thank the people 'who treated us as family' even though they entered later in their lives. See more photos here.

ADAMS, Mass. — Jonathan Igoe is a relatively new member of the Berkshire Arts and Technology Charter Public School community.

 

But the interim executive director learned a pretty valuable lesson about the 28 members of the class of 2024 who gathered in school's gym for Saturday morning's graduation.

 

Recently, he heard a story about 14 of those seniors on the class field trip to Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut.

 

"They went out to lunch together, a group among this larger group," Igoe said at Saturday's ceremony. "And the owner of the restaurant was so impressed with this group of students that she asked to take a photo and put it on her Instagram account.

 

"She told them that they were the most polite and best behaved group of students that she had ever encountered."

 

True to that reputation for good manners, gratitude was a major theme of Saturday's graduation exercises.

 

In addition to the annual "Moment of Appreciation" school tradition when graduates each give a flower to a faculty member who impacted their life in a significant way, two seniors made appreciation for their parents a major theme of their remarks.