Family Services Expands Playgroups to Stockbridge Pinewoods Community

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STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — The Pinewoods community room hosts a playgroup offering creativity, literacy, socializatoin and STEM development, with activities from cooking, to outdoor play, on Wednesdays from 11 to 11:30 a.m.

Playgroups are open to Pinewoods families and any others in the nearby community; the group will be led by local educator and Community Health Programs playgroup leader Sue Ebitz.

Also at Pinewoods, on the second and fourth Fridays of each month from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., Stockbridge Youth Librarian Jenney Maloy will host a pop-up library and story time at the community room.

Pinewoods children in preschool through middle school can sign up for library cards, check out books and read with “Miss Jenney,” parents and each other.


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Dalton Planning Board OKs Gravel Company Permit

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
DALTON, Mass. — The Planning Board approved the renewal of Nichols Sand and Gravel's special permit for earth removal. 
 
The company, located at 190 Cleveland Road, operates a gravel pit there. 
 
The hours of operation will remain 7 to 4 p.m. The commission approved owner Paul Nichols' request to allow trucks to depart the property in either direction. 
 
Nichols has to apply for renewal of the special permit every year. The previous permit required the truck to exit the property to the right.
 
It makes more sense to go left if truck drivers have to go to the Pittsfield area, Nichols said. He has talked to the residents in the area and they are agreeable to the change. 
 
Former residents requested this stipulation nearly 16 years ago to reduce the number of trucks using the residential street to avoid disturbing the quality of life and neighborhood. 
 
There weren't any residents present during the meeting who expressed concerns regarding this change.
 
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