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The Berkshire Shamrocks 30-plus masters hockey team poses after its Bay State Winter Games championship on Sunday.

Shamrocks Take Bay State Games Gold

Stephen DravisiBerkhires.com Sports
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The Berkshire Shamrocks 50-plus masters hockey team competes in pool play on Sunday morning at the Peter W. Foote Vietnam Veterans Memorial Rink in North Adams.

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Berkshire Shamrocks hockey team took home the gold medal in the 30-plus division of the Bay State Winter Games on Sunday afternoon.

The Shamrocks defeated the Braves, 9-4, in the championship game to complete a 4-0 weekend for the team at the Peter W. Foote Vietnam Veterans Memorial Rink.
 
The Shamrocks opened the tournament on Friday with a 7-2 win over Realestategoalie.com and picked up two more wins on Saturday by scores of 11-1 and 9-0 heading into Sunday's championship game.
 
In the final game of the three-day competition, the Shamrocks' 50-plus team dropped a 5-2 decision to Chicopee's Teddy Bear Pools and Spas in their championship game. Teddy Bear scored four third-period goals to break open the game after the teams skated to a 1-1 tie through two periods.
 
At Williams College's Lansing Chapman Rink on Sunday afternoon, the Bay State Games' figure skating competition concluded after a successful three-day run for the local competitiors from the Pittsfield Figure Skating Club and Christmas Brook Figure Skating Club.
 
Over the course of the three days, gold medals were earned by Williamstown's Petrea Mannello, North Adams' Vincienza Alicandri, Adams' Daniel Pompi, Pittsfield's Payton Wojtkowski and Daniella Santamarina, Clarksburg's Lauren Lampiasi and Cheshire's Hannah Fuller.
 
Bronze medal winners from the area included Adams' Shaleigh Levesque and Pittsfield's Aimee Boulais and Brooke VanBramer.

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Dalton Board of Health Approves Green Burial Verbiage

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
DALTON, Mass. — The Board of Health approved wording for the green burial guidelines during its meeting on Wednesday. 
 
The guideline stipulates that "Ebola or any other diseases that the CDC or Massachusetts Department of Public Health deem unsuitable for green burials can not be approved by the town Board of Health." 
 
The board has been navigating how to include communicable diseases in its guidelines to prevent them from spreading.  
 
Town Health Agent Agnes Witkowski has been working to clarify the state's guidelines regarding infectious diseases and green burials. 
 
She attended a presentation on green burials and consulted with people from various organizations, including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where it was determined that the state is behind in developing guidelines for green burials.
 
Currently, the only disease that would prevent someone from being able to have a green burial is ebola, board member Amanda Staples-Opperman said. Bugs would take care of anything else. 
 
The town running into situations surrounding an unknown disease would be a very rare occurrence, board members said. 
 
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