Age-Friendly Berkshires Highlights Successes, Launches Video

After a pedestrian was hit by a vehicle and later died, the senior citizens of Great Barrington were scared to walk. Emergency management from Fairview then crafted a program to purchase reflective vests to hand out to those walking, to help make them feel a little safer. Police cruisers will pull over and offer them to the pedestrian. The vests are available at the council on agings and events. It is one effort to help the aging population be a little, a little healthier by continuing to wa