Danbury Drops Berkshire Battalion

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- Ilya Solarev scored two goals to help the Danbury Whalers hand the Berkshire Battalion a second straight loss on Saturday night at Peter W. Foote Vietnam Veterans Memorial Rink.
 
Danbury jumped out to a 3-0 lead after one period before Tyler Prendergast got the Battalion on the board with a second-period goal.
 
Solarev scored his second in the last minute of the second period to make it a three-goal game, and the Whalers scored into an empty net to cap the scoring late in the third.
 
Daniel Palmkvist made 27 saves for Berkshire in the loss.
 
Berkshire goes on a three-game road trip next weekend to Dayton, Ohio, and Danville, Ill., the first three of nine straight road games.
 
The Battalion comes home on Jan. 10-11 for a two-game set against Dayton.
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Clarksburg Gets 3 Years of Free Cash Certified

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff
CLARKSBURG, Mass. — Town officials have heaved a sigh of relief with the state's certification of free cash for the first time in more than three years.
 
The town's parade of employees through its financial offices the past few years put it behind on closing out its fiscal years between 2021 and 2023. A new treasurer and two part-time accountants have been working the past year in closing the books and filing with the state.
 
The result is the town will have $571,000 in free cash on hand as it begins budget deliberations. However, town meeting last year voted that any free cash be used to replenish the stabilization account
 
Some $231,000 in stabilization was used last year to reduce the tax rate — draining the account. The town's had minimal reserves for the past nine months.
 
Chairman Robert Norcross said he didn't want residents to think the town was suddenly flush with cash. 
 
"We have to keep in mind that we have no money in the stabilization fund and we now have a free cash, so we have now got to replenish that account," he said. "So it's not like we have this money to spend ... most of it will go into the stabilization fund." 
 
The account's been hit several times over the past few fiscal years in place of free cash, which has normally been used for capital spending, to offset the budget and to refill stabilization. Free cash was last used in fiscal 2020.
 
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