Letter: Jennifer Macksey for Mayor

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To the Editor:

Jennifer Macksey is quite simply the best mayoral candidate for North Adams. As any of Jen's coworkers, current or former, will tell you, Jen is a strong independent woman who has been successful in every position she has held. I have personally seen her incredibly strong work ethic and she puts her whole heart into everything she does — just imagine what she will do for the city she loves.

What an incredible benefit to have our new mayor walk into City Hall with the knowledge of how city government works. She will brainstorm with all the city departments to figure out what needs to be prioritized and get to work on it. There will be no long learning curve.

I find it disturbing that the only reason I hear to not vote for Jen is that she will be our former mayor's "mouthpiece." For those of you who have made that statement, you obviously don't know Jen.


She is as passionate about this city as anyone I have ever met. Safety, jobs, education and housing are all on the top of her to-do list and she wants to work with the citizens of the city to improve them all.

If you are on the fence about who to vote for, I urge you to talk to Jen, she welcomes any and all conversations. I also urge you to watch the 10/21/21 debate.

I support Jen Macksey and urge you to do the same, she will make this city proud.

Rebecca Cellana
North Adams, Mass.

 

 

 


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Education Sustainability Group Launches Website, Talks Engagement

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires.com
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. – The group studying the potential for more collaboration among North County school districts Wednesday saw a website built for their project and discussed how it will gather input from community members over the next 10 months.
 
"The website is actually live," consultant Jake Eberwein of Berk12 told the North Berkshire Educational Sustainability Study steering committee in a meeting in the Drury High School library. "We can certainly do some edits.
 
"This is the official launch, tonight, I guess. There are no dead links, but there are areas without a lot of content."
 
Eberwein showed the committee sections of the nbess.org website, including the resources page, which will be key to keeping residents informed about the study's findings and collecting information from those residents.
 
"The last link is the contact page," Eberwein said. "It allows people to give us their name. If they want to ask a question, great. If they want to just get on the distribution list, that's great, too. … I think it's critically important that when people have a question, they get a response.
 
"It's critical people feel this is an open and transparent process."
 
Among the resources on the project's website is a slide show that framed Wednesday's presentation from Eberwein, Berk12's Brendan Sheran and Robert Putnam, like Eberwein a retired long-time administrator in Berkshire County who is helping compile historical research for the group.
 
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