MCLA Green Living series to address the community's carbon footprint

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NORTH ADAMS – The Berkshire Environmental Resource Center (BERC) at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) will continue its series of 14 “Green Living” seminars on Thursday, March 13, at 5:30 p.m. with “Successes and Challenges in Reducing our Carbon Footprint at Home, at Work, and in the Community,” in Murdock Hall room 218. The series, “Achieving Energy Sustainability for the 21st Century: Choices and Challenges,” is free and open to the public.

Nancy Nylen, associate director at the Center for Ecological Technology (CET), will lead the presentation. Nylen has been with CET since 1982, developing and providing training workshops and community service projects. She works with the Town of Adams to implement a sustainable development strategy that integrates environmental and economic concerns. Nylen has a master’s in Education, with a concentration in Environmental Studies from the University of Washington.

The Green Living series aims to inform students and the community about strategies for meeting our growing demand for energy and to encourage debate around several energy options, including those involving water, wind, hydrogen and nuclear power.

The series will continue on Thursdays through April 24 in Murdock Hall conference room 218 at MCLA. For more information, go to www.mcla.edu or contact Elena Traister, (413)662-5303.
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Sanford, Maine, Edges SteepleCats in Season Opener

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires.com Sports
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. – The SteepleCats Sunday started their 2026 season the way they ended their 2025 campaign: with a narrow loss to the Sanford Mainers.
 
Sanford, which won a best-of-three playoff series against North Adams last August, scored four runs on 14 hits to earn a 4-2 win at Joe Wolfe Field.
 
The Mainers broke a 1-1 tie with a two-run rally in the third inning, and four Sanford pitchers combined to collect 11 strikeouts as the visitors improved to 2-1 this summer.
 
North Adams, which saw its planned road opener rained out on Saturday, got to open the season in front of its home fans.
 
And those fans saw a strong performance from the North Adams pitching staff, which, despite allowing 14 hits, including five doubles, gave up just three earned runs.
 
“I like the grit,” SteepleCats coach Mike Gladu said of his team’s Game 1 performance. “I thought the pitchers performed pretty well. We had a couple of situations where we definitely should have gotten some runs in and didn’t get that hit.
 
“And there were a couple of plays with a little rust. Certainly, the ball that was hit over [Evan] Meier’s in left field, he just mistracked that one. And the extra run they scored in the eighth, the kid wasn’t going to go [from third on a fly ball], we made a throw and nobody could stop it.
 
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