NBCC Sets Annual Meeting, Northern Berkshire Hero Award Presentation

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Northern Berkshire Community Coalition will hold its annual meeting at Greylock WORKS on Friday, June 16, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. 
 
This marks its 37th year as a community organization.
 
This year's keynote speaker will be state Sen. Paul Mark and the coalition will honor George and Nancy Canales with the Northern Berkshire Hero Award for their decades of community involvement, including their volunteer efforts with the LaFesta Baseball Exchange, the SteepleCats baseball team and the North Adams visitors booth.
 
The theme of this year's meeting, "Telling Your Story," will include memories captured in photographs of the past 37 years of work the coalition has done in the community. Some  photographs will be enlarged and displayed throughout the event space and thousands of photographs will be available for attendees to search through and take home. The coalition recently digitally archived its collection of photographs and welcomes the community to take home any photographs they would like to keep. Most of the photographs available are from 1998  through 2002.
 
Tickets for the event are $25 per person. Scholarships are available for community residents who would like to attend. Buffet lunch, coffee and dessert will be provided by M&J's Taste of Home Catering. Registration is available online or by calling the coalition at 413-663-7588.
 
Registration link: https://conta.cc/40HKN9l

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Clarksburg Town Meeting to Vote Budgets, Bylaws & School Roof Replacement

By Tammy Daniels iBerkshires Staff
CLARKSBURG, Mass. — Voters will decide a $5.4 million budget at the annual town meeting on Wednesday night and whether to take out a half-million loan to put a new roof on the school. 
 
Town meeting takes place beginning at 6 p.m. on Wednesday in the school cafeteria. The warrant can be found here.
 
School and town officials have been debating for months how to address continued infrastructure needs at the 60-year-old building. The issue took a critical turn earlier this year when the roof began springing leaks and buckets appeared in classrooms. 
 
The conversation over whether to rebuild or renovate was put on the back burner as officials moved forward with plans to at least get the roof fixed. 
 
Article 12 will require a two-thirds vote at town meeting to authorize borrowing for the roof's design and construction. It will also require a special ballot election to exclude the borrowing from Proposition 2 1/2. This was most recently done when the town took out $1 million in 2019 for work on the roads and the school. The debt on that has been cleared. 
 
The bid the for roof was granted to Wooliver & Sons, pending borrowing approval. Article 13 asks to transfer $113,371 from the school roof stabilization fund for use in the roof replacement.
 
Officials have been concerned that while the bid from Wooliver is $400,000, the extent of repair will not be known until the work begins his summer. 
 
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