From top, volunteers from MCLA and pupils and teachers from Greylock School paint brightly colored flowers made by Drury students in the greenhouse program to be displayed around the city; the crosswalks at Marshall Street and St. Anthony Drive get a mod makeover with a design by Gail Sellers (seen marking the grid); Boy Scout Troop 88 rakes and picks up brush at Windsor Lake.
Spring Cleaning
More than 200 volunteers from the community and Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts worked at projects around the city of North Adams on Saturday. This was the 19th annual Community Day of Service, led for years by the college until the city took on a more formal collaborative role last year. Volunteers worked around the city's parks, riverbanks and streets, and on the college campus. The four-hour event concluded with pizza at MCLA's Church Street Center.
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Those crosswalks are Fantastic!!!! They should be on every crosswalk Downtown, and should be a Mass MoCA installation. A map should be made, and this might help draw more museum patrons to the Downtown! :) Brilliant!
Joe Artisto has a great idea.
Maybe a subject for the artwork in the crosswalks could be a timeline of the history of North Adams and/or the artwork could be inspired by the history of the particular location of each crosswalk. A map/guide could tell the story and guide visitors to each crosswalk thus pulling them into the downtown so that they are not stuck only on the Mass MoCA campus.
Another idea would be to put the timeline artwork on the sidewalks. These ideas obviously need to be subject to a brainstorming session.
Does anyone in power read these comments?
Editor: You mean like they're doing in Pittsfield for the 250th celebration? In that case, they are using photographic images and QR codes. Geez, I hope the PTB are reading us.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — There's a cat No Paws Left Behind still waiting for his forever home.
iBerkshire's Companion Corner is a weekly series spotlighting an animal in our local shelters that is ready to find a home. He was previously highlighted but he now has new information.
Grey Boy is 10 years old and is a gray and white domestic shorthair and was previously highlighted on Companion Corner.
The shelter's Executive Director Noelle Howland introduced us to him and his long journey to be ready for adoption.
"He's been here a couple months. He was a transfer from a rescue in Bennington. They were out of space, so we had taken him in with a few other cats. So he's been here a couple months. He came in with what we believed was a respiratory infection," she said. "So it took us a little bit to get him ready, and then he also needed a dental. So he has nice, clean teeth. He had some teeth removed, and then he has to go back in and have one more dental. So he'll be all ready to go."
It was previously thought that he has feline herpes but he was recently diagnosed with a palette fracture because of how bad his dental disease was, which is what is causing his sneezing. He can now go home with cats, a cat-savvy dog and children.
"He has had two dentals since being with us. Due to the palate fracture he will be sneezy for the rest of his life, not contagious sneezing, but that doesn’t stop him from living a perfectly happy life. He should be on wet food with chunks due to this and since he has had many teeth removed," Howland said.
Grey Boy loves to play with toys and enjoy treats. He would also love to have a window to lounge or bird-watch in.
"He is not afraid of anything. He's very curious, so I'm sure he'd love if you have windows for him to look out of. He still plays, even though he's 10 it does not stop him. So any home would be a good fit for him."
Now that he is ready to be adopted, he is excited. When you walk into the room with him he will rub up against your leg introducing himself and asking to be pet.
"Usually, I would say, when you're walking, he'll bonk into you so he might catch you off guard a little bit. He constantly is rubbing against you," Howland said. "He really, I would say he's lazy when you want him to be, and he's active when you want him to be. He'll play with toys. He's usually lounging away. And then when he comes out he'll play. He loves it. So, very friendly, easy going cat."
He is now perfectly healthy with his dentals all done and veterinary care up to date and is ready to find his forever family.
"I would say the friendliest, easiest cat you could have. He's just, he's just gonna be a little sneezy sometimes, but that doesn't stop him from doing anything," she said.
Grey Boy's adoption fee is sponsored by Rooted in Balance Counseling LLC.
Cassidy Flynn scattered five hits in a complete-game effort in the circle as Lenox upset top-seeded Hoosac Valley, 3-2, in the quarter-finals of the Division 5 State Tournament. click for more
Brayden Durant struck out seven and walked one in a complete-game effort on the mound Saturday to pitch the Drury baseball team to a 6-0 win over Keefe Tech in the quarter-finals of the Division 5 State Tournament at Joe Wolfe Field. click for more