Berkshire Conservation District Sets Annual Meeting

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Conservation District will hold its annual meeting and benefit dinner at Zucchini's Restaurant, 1331 North St.,  on Tuesday, Nov. 12, beginning at 5:30 p.m.

The event will take the place of the November board meeting. The event features a talk on biodiversity given by guest speaker Scott Jackson, extension associate professor of ecology in the Department of Environmental Conservation at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Jackson specializes in ecology of amphibians and road underpass and stream crossing systems for wildlife. He has been a long-term collaborator with the state Department of Environmental Protection and the state Association of Conservation Commissioners and is currently working on various watershed and wildlife projects including the Mill River Watershed Project and the state Herpetological Atlas.

Registration forms are available on the website or by calling the office at 413-443-1776, Ext. 102. Registration must be received no later than Nov. 1.



Tickets are $28 per person with choice of entree, chef's choice sides, salad and rolls, coffee or tea, and dessert. This event is open to the public.

The board of supervisors holds open public board meetings every third Tuesday of the month at 4 p.m. in the Conte Federal Building, 78 Center St., Suite 206. Berkshire Conservation District is a tax-exempt agency working in collaboration with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.
 

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Dion Brown Announces Transfer to Boston College

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It will be a shorter trip for Berkshire County basketball fans who want to see former Monument Mountain basketball star Dion Brown play home games next winter.
 
On Wednesday afternoon, Brown announced via the social media platform “X” that he is transferring to Boston College.
 
“I am proud to announce my decision to further my academic and athletic career at Boston College,” Brown tweeted. “I am hopeful for the future! Go Eagles.”
 
In 2023-24, Brown, then a sophomore at Boston College, was named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches’ Division I All-District Second team.
 
Brown was a first-team all-America East performer for the Retrievers last winter, breaking the school’s sophomore record for points with 607. He was third in the America East with 19 points per game and sixth in rebounding with 7.8 rebounds per game for UMBC, which went 11-21, losing to UMass-Lowell in the first round of the conference tournament. 
 
B.C. went 20-16 last winter, falling to the University of Virginia in the quarter-finals of the ACC tournament and advancing to the first round of the National Invitational Tournament.
 
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