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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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Pittsfield CPA Committee Funds Half of FY24 Requests

By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A few projects are not getting funded by the Community Preservation Committee because of a tight budget.

The projects not making the cut were in the historic preservation and open space and recreation categories and though they were seen as interesting and valuable projects, the urgency was not prevalent enough for this cycle.

"It's a tough year," Chair Danielle Steinmann said.

The panel made its recommendations on Monday after several meetings of presentations from applications. They will advance to the City Council for final approval.  

Two cemetery projects were scored low by the committee and not funded: A $9,500 request from the city for fencing at the West Part Cemetery as outlined in a preservation plan created in 2021 and a $39,500 request from the St. Joseph Cemetery Commission for tombstone restorations.

"I feel personally that they could be pushed back a year," Elizabeth Herland said. "And I think they're both good projects but they don't have the urgency."

It was also decided that George B. Crane Memorial Center's $73,465 application for the creation of a recreational space would not be funded. Herland said the main reason she scored the project low was because it didn't appear to benefit the larger community as much as other projects do.

There was conversation about not funding The Christian Center's $34,100 request for heating system repairs but the committee ended up voting to give it $21,341 when monies were left over.

The total funding request was more than $1.6 million for FY24 and with a budget of $808,547, only about half could be funded. The panel allocated all of the available monies, breaking down into $107,206 for open space and recreation, $276,341 for historic preservation, and $425,000 for community housing.

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