Jennifer Segala of Steepleview Real Estate and attorney James Sisto of Berkshire Elder Law marked their anniversaries last week with an open house and music at the Berkshire Plaza on Main Street, where both have offices.
A 50-year anniversary celebration was held at the Berkshire Athenaeum on Wednesday, featuring tables with around 30 organizations that have partnered with the program as well as food and joyful spirits.
Visitors came from as far away as Connecticut, Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont to help mark the occasion and share in the celebration.
The kind of "we’re all in this together" attitude that public health officials were promoting during the pandemic is baked into the culture at the Wild Oats cooperative.
It was founded in 1892 as the Epworth Mission by the Methodist Church and has been at its current location since 1906. Sherman explained that in the late 1800s, many immigrants came to the West Side looking for a better life.