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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Clarksburg School Eyeing ADA Improvements This Summer

By Tammy Daniels iBerkshires Staff
05:45AM / Tuesday, February 10, 2026

CLARKSBURG, Mass. — School officials are hoping to take the next stop in renovations to the 60-year-old school with a refit of the bathrooms.

Some upgrades had been done but there have been issues with obsolete parts and making them compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

"There's multiple bathroom issues. Every bathroom and the, obviously, we talked about the front entryway with the dangerous concrete," said Superintendent John Franzoni at last week's School Committee meeting. "There's some other things about the exterior, the brick and mortar, ... we look at the garage this summer because we're concerned about some of the access to the outdoors in that area, along with paving issues and the grease trap in the kitchen."

The town was able to get an ADA grant through the Berkshire Regional Planning Commission and has some funds put away in stabilization that could be used toward the project.

Town Administrator Ronald Boucher and Thomas Bona, who's taken on the oversight of several construction projects at the school, agreed to get some estimates on the bathroom work and the cement entry during school vacation next week.

"My goal was, if we could start that work right after school ends in June, we could front load the grant money there so we could use that first because we got to probably do an extensive abatement, I can pretty much guarantee you on whatever ones we decide to do," Franzoni said.

He anticipates a "pretty extensive renvation," and thought it important to get some numbers to see whether it was worth pursuing as it could take up a chunk of the stabilization account. It might be better to do the entryway first if it's a more reasonable project, he said.

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