BFAIR to Hold Fifth Annual Mini Golf Tournament Fundraiser

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Berkshire Family & Individual Resources will hold its fifth annual Miniature Golf Tournament on Saturday, Aug. 8, at The Range.

Participants in the tournament will enjoy lunch, a t-shirt and a round of miniature golf. Register as a team of two or individually to be placed on a team. The start times for golf will be 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. The cost for participating is $25 for adults, $10 for children ages 6-12 and free for children under 5.  Additionally, the day will be filled with raffle prizes generously donated by local merchants and businesses.

The tournament will serve as a fundraiser for the nonprofit organization, which meets the needs of people with disabilities and their families.

“This tournament is a great way to get friends and families together for fun while supporting an organization that works tirelessly to support others,” said Patti Messina, clerk of BFAIR's board of directors and chairwoman of the Fundraising Committee.

North Adams to Begin Study of Veterans Memorial Bridge Alternatives

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff
05:21AM / Monday, April 15, 2024

Mayor Jennifer Macksey says the requests for qualifications for the planning grant should be available this month. 

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Connecting the city's massive museum and its struggling downtown has been a challenge for 25 years. 

 

A major impediment, all agree, is the decades old Central Artery project that sent a four-lane highway through the heart of the city. 

 

Backed by a $750,000 federal grant for a planning study, North Adams and Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art are looking to undo some of that damage.

 

"As you know, the overpass was built in 1959 during a time when highways were being built, and it was expanded to accommodate more cars, which had little regard to the impacts of the people and the neighborhoods that it surrounded," said Mayor Jennifer Macksey on Friday. "It was named again and again over the last 30 years by Mass MoCA in their master plan and in the city in their vision 2030 plan ... as a barrier to connectivity."

 

The Reconnecting Communities grant was awarded a year ago and Macksey said a request for qualifications for will be available April 24.

 

She was joined in celebrating the grant at the Berkshire Innovation Center's office at Mass MoCA by museum Director Kristy Edmunds, state Highway Administrator Jonathan Gulliver, District 1 Director Francesca Hemming and Joi Singh, Massachusetts administrator for the Federal Highway Administration.

 

The speakers also thanked the efforts of the state's U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Edward Markey, U.S. Rep. Richie Neal, Gov. Maura Healey and state Sen Paul Mark and state Rep. John Barrett III, both of whom were in attendance.