Dalton's Lenten Music Series Starts March 8

10:27AM / Wednesday, March 04, 2026Print Story | Email Story

DALTON, Mass. – Tommy T, Black Velvet and Jackson DuCharme will kick off the annual Lenten Music Series on Sunday, March 8, at 3 p.m. at Dalton United Methodist Church, 755 Main St.

Tom Taglieri fronts the group, backed by Black Velvet vocalists Jean Golin, Bet Azar, and Donna Kushi. DuCharme is a teenage Elvis Presley impersonator.

The group will perform gospel, inspirational and spiritual songs with a touch of Elvis and other celebrities.

The nondenominational Lenten Music Series is free and open to the public. It will be hosted by Dalton United Methodist Church at 3 p.m. each Sunday through March 29, with a different Berkshire County group performing each week. A free-will offering will be taken each week, and all attending will be invited for refreshments in the Fellowship Hall.

The March 15 performance will feature the Cross Talk Praise Band of Dalton UMC, the March 22 program will feature the First Berkshire Church of the Nazarene Praise Band, and the series concludes on Palm Sunday (March 29) with The Becket Praise Team from the Yoked Parish of Becket.

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Dalton Police Station OK for Zoning, Once Location Is Chosen

By Breanna SteeleiBerkshires Staff
05:19PM / Sunday, January 11, 2026

DALTON, Mass. — The proposed police station is eligible for a special permit in all zones except a Planned Industrial Development zone, following a public hearing and board consensus.

The town has been exploring solutions to address the station's needs, forming the Public Safety Advisory Committee in July 2024 after reports highlighted the department's deteriorating condition.

Now more than a year into the initiative, progress seems to have stalled because of conflicting opinions on where the proposed station would go, Police Chief Deanna Strout said during previous meetings.

The sticking points have been cost and location, which has had the advisory committee in gridlock for months. Several public officials have expressed their desire to have a new station constructed on town-owned land for the cost savings.

However, the only land sizable to fit the facility is next to the Senior Center, but some neighbors have conveyed their disapproval for that space, which had been earmarked for affordable housing.

So, the committee sought guidance from the Zoning Board but left with few answers.

"We wanted to have a discussion with you as a board about where you would consider this and what your thoughts as a board were specifically," Town Manager Eric Anderson said to the board at the Tuesday meeting.

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