image description — BEAT Staying Connected Initiative Coordinator Mikael Cejtin, left, and Executive Director Jane Winn show off their locally-made stewardship awards, presented by Patricia Cramer, director of the Wildlife Connectivity Institute.

BEAT Receives International Stewardship Award

05:17PM / Monday, July 10, 2023Print Story | Email Story

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Environmental Action Team received a stewardship award for its work protecting and re-connecting wildlife habitats in the Berkshire Wildlife Linkage area.

The award was presented June at the International Conference on Ecology and Transportation.

The local environmental organization's habitat effort is part of a larger Staying Connected Initiative: a partnership of many conservation organizations that work together to maintain landscape connectivity across the Northern Appalachians in the Acadian Region of the United States and Canada.

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Hancock Man Held on $250K in Pedestrian Hit&Run

12:56PM / Wednesday, February 18, 2026

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A Hancock man accused in last week's dragging death of William Colbert, 69, is being held on $250,000 bail.

William Gross, 65, had not-guilty pleas entered on his behalf on charges of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in injury or death and negligent motor vehicle homicide.

He was arraigned Wednesday morning in Central Berkshire District Court.

Police say Colbert was struck at the intersection Francis Street and Linden Street at about 11:30 p.m. on Feb. 10 and his body was found more than three miles away on West Housatonic Street.

Investigators secured multiple video surveillance footage from local businesses and private residences that traced the route of the vehicle, a dark sedan.

Gross's car matched the description they were able secure from video evidence. According to police, he reported leaving work in Pittsfield around 11:30 p.m. on Feb. 10 and driving a route consistent to the one being investigated. The vehicle demonstrated damage consistent with one being involved in the hit and run.

He was brought in for questioning and then taken to Berkshire Medical Center for unrelated health concerns.

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