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Cheshire Cleaned Up In May

Since 2014, the Cheshire Community Association has organized a community cleanup during the month of May and even with challenges this year they found a way to persist.

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Campers From Camp Lenox Help Clean Up Pittsfield's West Side

More than two dozen teenagers from Camp Lenox spent Friday cleaning up the west side of Pittsfield. In partnership with Central Berkshire Habitat for Humanity, the campers cleaned up Durant Park, Columbus Avenue, and opened up the staircase at the end of Francis Avenue that had become overgrown to help people in the neighborhood more easily get to Big Y and CVS.

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Cheshire Community Cleanup This Weekend

The event kicks off Saturday morning at the Highway Garage. Signups will take place between 9 and 9:15 and there will be coffee and doughnuts.

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Springside Park Cleanup Going Strong 30 Years Later

At 9 a.m. the rain was pouring down heavily. And despite that, some 30 people volunteered their time to go into Springside Park and clean up litter and debris left behind. The annual park cleanup has hit a milestone with this being its 30th year. The effort is all volunteer and organized by the Friends of Springside Park.

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Residents Unhappy With Mediation For GE River Cleanup

Why is this even being negotiated? That's what many of the residents along the Rest of the River corridor rhetorically asked Monday night in regards to the cleanup of PCBs in the Housatonic River.

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Volunteers Clean Up Pittsfield's Clapp Park

On a cold and windy morning, some 40 volunteers gave up their afternoon to spruce up Clapp Park. Central Berkshire Habitat for Humanity organized the clean up as part of its neighborhood revitalization efforts. Lowe's, Habitat for Humanity's national partner, awarded the local organization $40,000 to invest back into west Pittsfield.

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