Pittsfield Green Drinks: Protecting What Sustains Us All

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Environmental Action Team (BEAT) invites everyone to join them on Tuesday, Dec. 20, at 6 PM for their monthly Pittsfield Green Drinks gathering. 
 
Discuss the organization's work of this past year and explore what comes next as the new year approaches. 
 
BEAT is an environmental nonprofit located in Pittsfield that was established in 2003. The organization does a scope of environmental work: improving wildlife movement corridors, monitoring water quality, fighting for clean and equitable energy, and cleaning up the environment through organized cleanups. BEAT's mission is to protect the environment for wildlife in support of the natural world that sustains us all. 
 
Join BEAT for their last Green Drinks of the year to hear about ways they hope to get Pittsfield residents involved in their upcoming air quality monitoring; how they're currently working with the City to remediate pipes that discharge pollution into the Housatonic River; the findings from coldwater streams monitoring; and next steps in their continuing fight to shut down peaking power plants. 
 
This gathering will take place on Zoom. Registration is required to join the gathering.
 

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Dalton Town Meeting May 6 Preview

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
DALTON, Mass. — Voters at the annual town meeting on Monday, May 6, will decide 22 articles, including articles on sidewalks and the authorization of a number of spending articles, including an approximate $22 million budget. 
 
The meeting will take place at 7 p.m. at Wahconah Regional High School. Town meeting documents can be found here.
 
A little more than a dozen voters attended the nearly two-hour town meeting information session on Monday. 
 
"That budget is going up about 8 percent from what it was last year. Sounds like a lot, it is a lot, the majority of that is coming from increases in insurance, and schools, and other things the town does not have direct control over," Town Manager Thomas Hutcheson said.
 
"So, the actual town increase is a little under 4 percent. Everything else we're at the mercy of outside forces."
 
Of the $22 million budget, $10,537,044 is the assessment for the Central Berkshire Regional School District and about $10 million is the town operating budget.
 
"Last year, that part of the budget went up 10 percent. So, we're going in the right direction. It's not as low as we'd necessarily like to see, but I think both the Select Board and the Finance Committee did a great job this year of trimming away where they could," Hutcheson said. 
 
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