NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — North Adams Public Schools will be celebrating "Walk to School Day," with students, parents, teachers, administrators and local "celebrities", on Wednesday, Sept. 20.
"Walk to School" events work to create safer routes for walking and bicycling and emphasize the importance of increasing physical activity among children, pedestrian safety, alleviating traffic congestion, concern for the environment and building connections between families, schools and the broader community.
There will be opportunities to walk with "walking school buses". There will also be "park and walk" sites for families that live outside the routes and/or farther from the schools.
These sites are: Sullivan School Parking Lot on Kemp Ave., Flynn and Dagnoli on West Main St. and the old Price Chopper parking lot, departing these sites between 7:55 am - 8:10 am. The "walking school bus" routes and park and walk sites can be found at www.napsk12.org/WalkToSchool and on the North Adams Public Schools Facebook page.
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Letter: On Timberspeak in North Adams
Letter to the Editor
To the Editor:
Like every other resident of North Adams, I was until very recently unaware of a sneaky logging plan for a patch of pristine public lands on the south side of Mount Greylock called Notch Woods.
Excuse me, it's not a logging plan, it's a forest management plan, or is it a forest stewardship plan? Whatever obfuscating rhetoric you choose, the timber industry is about to rip 70 acres of iconic public land to shreds, and on that razed ground build back what might be their crowning achievement in euphemism, wait for it, a "climate resilient forest."
You can almost hear the snickering timber industry executives. What we need instead is a forest seemingly impossible to come by, one resilient to human intervention.
Although the city of North Adams unfortunately fell for the "climate resilient forest" pitch over two years ago, our civic leadership withheld the cutting plan from its citizens so we now have almost no time to organize and disrupt the imminent sound of mechanical treatments, scheduled to begin in a couple of months. ("Mechanical treatment" is timberspeak for "sawblades gouging into wood," FYI.)
"So what's the big deal," you might ask? "70 acres doesn't sound so bad. Quit crying, lumber has to come from somewhere, why not North Adams?"
Here's why:
We're only the pilot program. Notch Woods is home to the Bellows Pipe trail, voted by Conde Nast Traveler as one of the top 25 hikes in the country on which to enjoy fall foliage, and in an obscene example of irony, the trail walked by perhaps nature's most eloquent advocate, Henry David Thoreau, as he summitted the tallest peak in Massachusetts. If the timber industry can pull off this swindle on a historically recognized piece of public land, the precedent will be set for its ability to target public land anywhere.
"Hello, are you concerned about climate change? You are?? So are we!!! I knew we'd have a lot in common. Good news is that we've got a fantastic solution for you and your community ... ."
Sound cool?
Maybe you'll be as lucky as we are in North Adams to enjoy the privilege of getting your very own brand-new "climate resilient forest" delivered at no cost by the benevolent hands of the timber industry.
The only catch is that they have to cut down all your trees before they can begin to rebuild.
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