MCLA to offer Green Living series

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North Adams â€“ Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) will begin a Green Living Seminar series this semester, entitled â€œFrom personal decisions to large scale conservation efforts: an introduction to the diverse stewards of the environment.â€ The program is coordinated by Elena Traister, a faculty member of environmental studies. The purpose of the program is to inform the community about the ways that environmental conservation can be achieved through individual actions in combination with larger scale environmental efforts. The first speaker in this series is MCLA alumnus, Christopher Derby Kilfoyle â€™76, president of Berkshire Photovoltaic Services, who will present â€œThe power of solar energy: Benefits and costs of implementing photovoltaics in Massachusetts.â€ The program will take place at 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 31 in Sullivan Lounge in the Amsler Campus Center. Kilfoyle has led BPVS, Berkshire Photovoltaic Services since its formation twenty years ago. The Adams company, a selected contractor for Utility, DOE, and NREL sponsored projects, has designed and installed commercial, residential and agricultural PV systems throughout New England and New York. A leader of the popular "PV for Professionals" workshops sponsored by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association, Kilfoyle, is a NABCEP certified PV installer. A long time member of the American Solar Energy Society and a founding member of the Solar Energy Business Association of New England, he is also the Technical Advisor to the Cornell University Solar Decathlon Team and a frequent guest lecturer on PV and Energy policy issues at Cornell and the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Green Living presentations are free and open to the public. Each presentation will last approximately one hour, and light refreshments will be provided. For further information, contact Traister at 413-662-5301.

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North Adams Officials to Revote School Committee Members

Staff reports06:31PM / Friday, October 09, 2026

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — City and school officials will meet a second time to vote in two new members of the School Committee.

The joint convention of the City Council and School Committee will be held on Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the City Hall conference room and via Zoom.

Damon Grimes and Paul Moriarty were jointly elected on Monday to fill two seats vacated by resignation. They were two of four candidates standing for election.

Mayor Jennifer Macksey, chair of the School Committee, said she had received in inquiry about the votes, which were done by secret ballot.

"I have been advised that voting by ballot was not permissible in this circumstance," she said, after consulting the School Committee's attorney Adam Dupere and city solicitor KP Law.

To ensure the validity of the votes and conduct of the election, the joint convention will reconvene and formally confirm the selection of Grimes and Moriarty.

"I apologize for the inconvenience of having to reconvene," the mayor said in a statement. "My intention in using a ballot was to address concerns raised following our previous convention, when some members expressed discomfort with publicly voting for or against individual candidates.

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