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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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Berkshire Bank Shuts Down Offices to Volunteer in Community

At noon on Tuesday, all of the Berkshire Bank branches and operational centers closed. But, those employees were not far away. In Pittsfield, 150 of them could be found in a vacant storefront on Merrill Road wearing hard hats and putting together wall panels for the soon to be construction of Habitat for Humanity's six-unit Gordon Demming. Others were at the former St. Mark's school cleaning up the playgrounds for Hillcrest Education.

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Williamstown Select Board Salutes Volunteers, Recommends Sand Springs Article

Chairman Hugh Daley opened the meeting by talking about an incident over the weekend when he witnessed local youth Teague Murphy selflessly wade into the Green River to remove some construction materials that had been thrown into the water.

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