The final 3rd Thursday of 2019 is 3rd Thursday: Walk a Mile, a fun annual fundraiser which raises money for the Elizabeth Freeman Center. Plus enjoy a live performance from Whiskey Treaty Roadshow,Barkha Dance Company in the Jacob's Pillow Dance Zone, food, vendors and other entertainment for the entire family. 5-8 p.m.
Hancock Shaker Village presents a screening of Museum Town, Jennifer Trainer's new documentary that tells the story of the power of art to transform a post-industrial city. Threaded with interviews with artists including Nick Cave and David Byrne, and featuring narration by Meryl Streep, the film traces the remarkable story of MASS MoCA. This screening includes a BBQ dinner and a conversation with Trainer and social impact investor Jack Wadsworth. $45. 6p.m.
Berkshire Athenaeum will hold aRead with Meinformation session on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. Read with Me is a caregiver/child book club for grades 4-6. Every month, caregivers and their youth will come together with the children's librarian to eat pizza and discuss a title from the list of 2019-20 MA Children's Book Award nominees. Copies of each month's title will be available to borrow. September's session will serve as a chance to discuss the structure and expectations of the group, and to order copies of October's title for those who need it. Pizza will be served.
Join instructor Ron Tritto atBerkshire Yoga Dance & Fitness for East Coast Swing I (4 classes) which can be followed by East Coast Swing II beginning on October 18.Both couples and singles are welcome to attend. Advance registration required. The cost is $55 per student. Receive a $10 discount if you register for both classes!
The 10th annual Berkshire BioBlitz is a 24-hour biological survey, held at Springside Park from 12 p.m. on Saturday - 12 p.m. on Sunday.Join a scientist out in the field to see what you can find on this 237.5-acre preserve. Biologists will take to the woods, wetlands and fields to find and tally species from as many taxa as possible, including algae, ferns, trees, fungi, arthropods, mollusks, fish, birds, reptiles and more. FREE and open to al - bring the kids!
The Berkshire Museum's Voices & Visionaries series presents dinner and a conversation with prominent early childhood educator Beth Fredericks and the Museum's Chief Experience Officer Craig Langlois. Fredericks will offer insight into her work in Singapore, a country known for its early childhood education programs. A global leader in her field, she has been living in Southeast Asia for the past 3 years preparing educators and leaders to design and create strong early childhood infrastructure. The evening will also include a look into the Berkshire Museum's work in this area as Langlois showcases its publication In Kindergarten, which was distributed to every rising kindergartner in Massachusetts in 2019. 5:30 p.m.
Set in 1825, Clare, a young Irish convict, chases a British officer through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. On the way, she enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy, who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.
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EPA Lays Out Draft Plan for PCB Remediation in Pittsfield
By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff
Ward 4 Councilor James Conant requested the meeting be held at Herberg Middle School as his ward will be most affected.
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — U.S. The Environmental Protection Agency and General Electric have a preliminary plan to remediate polychlorinated biphenyls from the city's Rest of River stretch by 2032.
"We're going to implement the remedy, move on, and in five years we can be done with the majority of the issues in Pittsfield," Project Manager Dean Tagliaferro said during a hearing on Wednesday.
"The goal is to restore the (Housatonic) river, make the river an asset. Right now, it's a liability."
The PCB-polluted "Rest of River" stretches nearly 125 miles from the confluence of the East and West Branches of the river in Pittsfield to the end of Reach 16 just before Long Island Sound in Connecticut. The city's five-mile reach, 5A, goes from the confluence to the wastewater treatment plant and includes river channels, banks, backwaters, and 325 acres of floodplains.
The event was held at Herberg Middle School, as Ward 4 Councilor James Conant wanted to ensure that the residents who will be most affected by the cleanup didn't have to travel far.
Conant emphasized that "nothing is set in actual stone" and it will not be solidified for many months.
In February 2020, the Rest of River settlement agreement that outlines the continued cleanup was signed by the U.S. EPA, GE, the state, the city of Pittsfield, the towns of Lenox, Lee, Stockbridge, Great Barrington, and Sheffield, and other interested parties.
Remediation has been in progress since the 1970s, including 27 cleanups. The remedy settled in 2020 includes the removal of one million cubic yards of contaminated sediment and floodplain soils, an 89 percent reduction of downstream transport of PCBs, an upland disposal facility located near Woods Pond (which has been contested by Southern Berkshire residents) as well as offsite disposal, and the removal of two dams.
The estimated cost is about $576 million and will take about 13 years to complete once construction begins.
U.S. The Environmental Protection Agency and General Electric have a preliminary plan to remediate polychlorinated biphenyls from the city's Rest of River stretch by 2032. click for more
The joyful celebration on Thursday at North Adams Regional Hospital was a far cry from the scene 10 years ago when protests and tears marked the facility's closing. click for more
The City Council on Tuesday unanimously gave Superintendent Joseph Curtis the green light for the SOI to the Massachusetts School Building Authority by April 12.
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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.
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The Licensing Board on Monday gave Pancho's Mexican Restaurant the OK to close one hour later — extending last call to 12:30 p.m. and closing at 1 a.m. There have been no reported incidents since a weeklong license suspension.
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