Letter: Harrington Deserves Another Term

Letter to the Editor07:00PM / Sunday, September 04, 2022Print Story | Email Story

To the Editor:

I'm writing to express my wholehearted endorsement of Andrea Harrington — we have been friends for many years, through thick and thin. I look at the criminal justice system through the lens of our community's most marginalized neighbors. Andrea walks the walk on showing up to make change.

She understands the value of harm reduction better than any other politician I’ve worked with. She has been a champion for keeping drug use in the realm of public health where it belongs. She has focused the arm of justice on where it belongs — domestic violence and murder.

She has faced extremely biased reporting by our local paper of record. It has been very disappointing to see the repeated smears. It has made people afraid to support her publicly, even though in private they think she is doing a good job.

It is also worth noting that the courts were fully closed during a significant portion of her tenure. Now that they are open, violent crimes are being successfully prosecuted.

Andrea has earned your vote for another four years.

Stephen Murray
North Adams, Mass.

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NBSU Gives Clarksburg Year's Budget Relief

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff
05:46AM / Monday, February 23, 2026

FLORIDA, Mass. — The North Berkshire School Union voted to give member town Clarksburg a financial breather — at least for fiscal 2027.

Town and school officials had proposed changes last month as the town's assessment for the union administration climbed to 54 percent.

The "super" School Committee, after more than an hour of debate, voted 7-2 to raise the other four member towns' assessments by 2 percent, thus giving Clarksburg an 8 percent reduction.

Clarksburg officials had initially brought forward a proposal to set a base percentage for all the towns at 10 percent, with 5 percent for tiny Monroe, and then do the balance based on the current enrollment apportionment.

This was rejected by consensus and other proposals were hashed out at a recent subcommittee meeting. The 2 percent change was brought forward to Thursday's joint committee meeting, which is comprised of all the members of the town school committees.

"I do think it's important to come up with some sort of compromise, but I also believe that there's a lot of data that we need to start looking into throughout this one-year agreement that's going to help with a lot of these questions," said Savoy's Arleigh Cooper.

"I know that there's hesitation. We all looked at numbers at 10 percent at 5 percent I think there was maybe a 7.5 percent or maybe that was just my numbers on my own that I was calculating and even giving a small 2.5 percent for just a one year, I think shows Clarksburg, hey, we are willing to help you out. However, there's so much data that needs to be collected, and it's just too short of a window to do a large number."

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