Berkshire Babypalooza 2023

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Berkshire Babypalooza 2023 will be held Saturday, April 15 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Greylock Works 
 
The event is free.
 
Local agencies and vendors will be present to answer various questions about pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, family planning, and more 
 
There will be games and door prizes for the first 250 families.
 
This event is being presented by Berkshire Area Health Education Center's Tobacco Free Community Partnership Program and the Berkshire Babypalooza 2023 Planning Committee Members from, Northern Berkshire Community Coalition, North Adams Public Schools, Berkshire Bounty, WIC and Childcare of the Berkshires.
 

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Study Recommends 'Removal' for North Adams' Veterans Bridge

By Tammy Daniels iBerkshires Staff

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Nearly a year of study and community input about the deteriorating Veterans Memorial Bridge has resulted in one recommendation: Take it down. 
 
The results of the feasibility study by Stoss Landscape Urbanism weren't really a surprise. The options of "repair, replace and remove" kept pointing to the same conclusion as early as last April. 
 
"I was the biggest skeptic on the team going into this project," said Commissioner of Public Services Timothy Lescarbeau. "And in our very last meeting, I got up and said, 'I think we should tear this damn bridge down.'"
 
Lescarbeau's statement was greeted with loud applause on Friday afternoon as dozens of residents and officials gathered at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art to hear the final recommendations of the study, funded through a $750,000 federal Reconnecting Communities grant. 
 
The Central Artery Project had slashed through the heart of the city back in the 1960s, with the promise of an "urban renewal" that never came. It left North Adams with an aging four-lane highway that bisected the city and created a physical and psychological barrier.
 
How to connect Mass MoCA with the downtown has been an ongoing debate since its opening in 1999. Once thousands of Sprague Electric workers had spilled out of the mills toward Main Street; now it was a question of how to get day-trippers to walk through the parking lots and daunting traffic lanes. 
 
The grant application was the joint effort of Mass MoCA and the city; Mayor Jennifer Macksey pointed to Carrie Burnett, the city's grants officer, and Jennifer Wright, now executive director of the North Adams Partnership, for shepherding the grant through. 
 
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