New Associate Joins Donovan O’Connor & Dodig

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Kelsey Bain has joined Donovan O'Connor & Dodig, LLP, as an associate.  

Bain received both her J.D. and Master of Environmental Law & Policy from Vermont Law School in 2017. While at Vermont Law School she worked as a Dean’s Fellow and an editor on Law Review. She has been published in the San Diego Journal of Climate and Energy Law ("Planning for the Sun to Come Up") and the Idaho Law Review ("Undamming the Federal Production Tax Credit").

Prior to law school, she graduated from Tulane University in 2012 with a B.S. in Evolutionary Biology.  While developing her legal skills, attorney Bain worked as a legal intern with Earthjustice in San Francisco, where she focused on pesticide and toxic chemical litigation and protecting communities and public lands from oil and gas development. She also served as a judicial extern for the Vermont Supreme Court under the Honorable Justice Dooley.

Bain will be working in both Massachusetts and Vermont, primarily out of the North Adams office. She lives in Williamstown.

Donovan O'Connor & Dodig, is the region's oldest and largest law firm, with offices located in North Adams, Pittsfield and Bennington, Vt.

 

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Macksey Updates on Eagle Street Demo and Myriad City Projects

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff

The back of Moderne Studio in late January. The mayor said the city had begun planning for its removal if the owner could not address the problems. 
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Moderne Studio building is coming down brick by brick on Eagle Street on the city's dime. 
 
Concerns over the failing structure's proximity to its neighbor — just a few feet — means the demolition underway is taking far longer than usual. It's also been delayed somewhat because of recent high winds and weather. 
 
The city had been making plans for the demolition a month ago because of the deterioration of the building, Mayor Jennifer Macksey told the City Council on Tuesday. The project was accelerated after the back of the 150-year-old structure collapsed on March 5
 
Initial estimates for demolition had been $190,000 to $210,000 and included asbestos removal. Those concerns have since been set aside after testing and the mayor believes that the demolition will be lower because it is not a hazardous site.
 
"We also had a lot of contractors who came to look at it for us to not want to touch it because of the proximity to the next building," she said. "Unfortunately time ran out on that property and we did have the building failure. 
 
"And it's an unfortunate situation. I think most of us who have lived here our whole lives and had our pictures taken there and remember being in the window so, you know, we were really hoping the building could be safe."
 
Macksey said the city had tried working with the owner, who could not find a contractor to demolish the building, "so we found one for him."
 
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