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Mount Greylock School Committee Sends 'Multipurpose' Building Out to Bid

At a special afternoon meeting of the committee last week, the panel authorized architect Perkins Eastman to release bid documents with a stated budget of $2.1 million for the building, which would house the district's central administration, storage space for Mount Greylock's groundskeepers, space for the school's athletics program and, potentially, a public restroom to service the playing fields.

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Pittsfield Awards Wastewater Project Contract

The upgrades to the wastewater treatment plant will cost $13 million less than expected. The city awarded Methuen Construction a contract of $51,423,287 to make the upgrades required to comply with a U.S. EPA mandate to lower the levels of phosphorous and aluminum being discharged into the Housatonic River. It also includes adding a nitrogen optimization process. The City Council had previously authorized $74 million to complete the work.

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Pittsfield Receives Proposal For Animal Shelter, Mum on Details

The city of Pittsfield is apparently giving up its attempts to run an animal shelter on its own but a request for proposals to take over the care of strays has only elicited one bid. Earlier this month the city issued a request for proposal for animal sheltering. The proposals were due on Monday and the Berkshire Humane Society was the only one to respond. Pittsfield officials are mum on what the organization has proposed or what the city is looking for in such a contract.

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$18.5M Notre Dame Hotel Proposal on North Adams Council Agenda

The church property was one of four parcels put out to bid in July. Mayor Thomas Bernard is asking that the council authorize him to enter into a purchase-and-sales agreement with The Square Office LLC.

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McCann Tech to Overhaul Outdated Website

Brosnan said there was a small website update 10 years ago but much of the information on the site is outdated. The website administrator in New Hampshire has to be called to make any changes on the site.

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Adams Receives Town Hall Roof Bid

The aging roof has been on the town’s radar for some time now and $220,000 was actually allocated in fiscal 2018 to make various repairs to Town Hall.

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Clarksburg Opens Bids for Gleason Street Culvert Repair

Town officials on Wednesday opened six bids for repairs to a 200-foot culvert that has failed near Gleason Street.

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Adams Looking Toward Scenic Rail Boarding Platform

The bids opened on Thursday are to construct a boarding platform at the Hoosac Station at 4 Hoosac St. that would allow passengers to board the Berkshire Scenic Railway that extends to North Adams.

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