News & Notes: Round and Round They'll Go

By Larry KratkaBerkshire News Network
06:17AM / Sunday, April 20, 2008Print Story | Email Story

PITTSFIELD — Build it and they will come. That's the projection of a group of residents currently raising money and awareness of a project to build a carousel and equip it with 36 horses carved by local artists.

The carousal building will be constructed on property that was once the site of the old Falcon Chevrolet/Cadillac dealership on Center Street, alongside the current CVS store.

The site had been proposed for a minor league baseball stadium until voters shot the idea down several years ago. The CVS store was built there but the rest of the property's been vacant.

Organizer Frank Bonnevie said the group's vision of the project is a 60-foot diameter, enclosed gazebo to house the carousel and an attached building for a carousel museum.

The carousel would be open year-round. The state-of-the-art museum would house memorabilia and a history of carousels. The project is the dream of developer Jim Shulman, who purchased the property for $325,000 and is recruiting area artisans to carve each of the 36 carousel horses.

Shulman, a retired psychologist from Ohio, is a Pittsfield High School graduate.

Organizers are shooting for a grand opening in 2011, the 250th anniversary of Pittsfield's founding. A fundraiser event will be held the weekend of May 3 and 4 under a big top at the Center Street location — complete with a 60-horse carousel.

The benefit will include silent and live auctions and a raffle, all for time (and lunch) with local celebrities and at area cultural venues.

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Dalton Capital Planning Committee Members Selected

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
12:57PM / Wednesday, January 21, 2026

DALTON, Mass. — The members of the town's Capital Planning Committee have been selected.

In December, the Attorney General's Office approved the Capital Planning Committee bylaw that was approved by voters at the annual town meeting last May, Town Manager Eric Anderson said last week.

The bylaw creates the committee, outlines membership, appointment and term, and highlights the committee's duties, which is to prepare a Capital Improvement Plan financing plan with a five-year forecast of revenues and expenses.

The members of the committee are Karen Schmidt and Tom Irwin, representatives of the Finance Committee, and Dennis Croughwell, a representative of the Planning Board. Anderson accepted the Finance and Planning Board's selections for the committee.

Also serving on the committee is Town Planner Janko Tomasic, and Lee Nunez, principal assessor.

Temporarily serving until the town hires a new town accountant and finance director will be Sandra Albano, who retired in October but has stayed on in the role until a replacement can be found.

Anderson appointed the at-large committee members as Daniel Esko, to ensure a Select Board member is involved, and the town's former town manager Kenneth Walto, because of his 19-year experience in the town manager position.

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