EPA Sets Meeting on Silver Lake Maintenance

12:27PM / Tuesday, July 22, 2025Print Story | Email Story

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency invites the public to attend a meeting on Tuesday, July 22, on Silver Lake.

The meeting will take place at 6:30 p.m. in City Council Chambers.

GE will provide a presentation on upcoming maintenance of the cap that covers the bottom of Silver Lake and then take questions with members of EPA's GE-Housatonic River Superfund Site team.

Under the 2000 Consent Decree, GE was required to remove contaminated bank soils, remove and replace sediments near an outfall from the GE plant, cap the entire 26-acre lake bottom and perform periodic reviews of the cap’s effectiveness and integrity.

More information is available at www.epa.gov/ge-housatonic.

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Police Seeking Suspect in Fatal Hit-and-Run

08:50PM / Wednesday, February 11, 2026

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Police are searching for a suspect in a fatal hit-and-run on Tuesday.

The victim, whose identity has not been released, was found nearly four miles away from where he was reportedly struck.

The initial report was that someone was in the road, possibly struck by a motor vehicle, at the intersection of Linden Street and Francis Avenue at about 11:33 p.m.

According to the report filed by Sgt. David Hallas, officers were unable to locate either a victim or a vehicle at the intersection. They spoke with witnesses and canvassed the area.

They were found him in the road in the 1350 block of West Housatonic Street near the Best Western hotel.

The victim was deceased.

The investigation is pointing to the victim being struck the Linden Street intersection and then trapped under the vehicle and dragged "to a final resting place" on West Housatonic.

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