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Weekend Outlook: Wahconah Goodbye, Fundraisers and More

By Breanna SteeleiBerkshires Staff
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Check out the events happening in Berkshire County this week including fundraisers, concerts and more. 

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Farewell to the Grandstand,
Hello to the Future of Wahconah Park

Wahconah Park, Pittsfield
Time: Saturday, 1 to 3 p.m.

Reminisce and celebrate the memories and the decades of the historic ballpark and learn about its future. Enjoy food and water while sharing your memories on video or write on a baseball-shaped card.

More information here.

 

'Once Upon a Dream' Children's Concert
Drury High School, North Adams
Time: noon to 2 p.m.

The annual children's princess concert to benefit the AYJ Fund.  Meet and greet with the Princesses and ticket raffle from noon to 1. Costumes encouraged. 

More information and tickets here.

Multiple Days

'James and the Giant Peach'
Drury High School, North Adams
Friday, April 10, at 7 p.m., and Saturday, April 11, at 2 and 7

Drury Stage Company presents "James and the Giant Peach," a musical based on based on the Roald Dahl classic.

Tickets are $5 for students and $10 for adults at the door.

More information here.

Friday

Berkshire County Line Dancers
Tilly's Tap & Tavern, North Adams
Time: 7 to 10 p.m.

Line dancing with Tina; Tilly's is located at Valley Park Lanes on Curran Highway. 

More information here.

Sunset Beaver Watch
Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary, Lenox
Time: 6 to 7:30 p.m.

See the sanctuary's beavers in action. Hike about two miles to get a glimpse of what they do when they harvest trees.

NOTE: This event is full but you can sign the waitlist. More information here.

Thrash'em All Metal Friday
Bright Ideas Brewing, North Adams
Time: 9 p.m.

Enjoy your Friday night rocking out to Metallica and more.

More information here.

Empty Bowl Dinner
First Congregational Church, Williamstown
Time: 5 p.m.
 
Annual fundraiser for the Williamstown Food Pantry. Choose a beautiful handmade bowl from Tim Duncan Pottery and share soup, bread and live music. Seatings at 5 and 6:30. 
 
Tickets are $35. More information here
 

Saturday

Get BArT Smart 2026
1 Commercial St., Adams
Time: 6 to 9:15 p.m.

Berkshire Arts & Technology Public Charter School's biggest fundraising event of the year supports the school's college preparatory program.

Gather a team of one to six people to compete in a trivia contest throughout the classrooms in subjects like STEAM, Art@BART, and BARThropology.

More information and register here.

 
Cheerleading Showcase
Hoosac Valley High School, Cheshire
Time: noon to 2
 
Sponsored by Top Tier Elite, a Berkshires cheerleading program, this inaugural event will showcase the skills of 12 cheer teams.
 
Tickets are $15 adults, $10 children; more information here

16th Annual Splash-a-thon Fundraiser
Berkshire South Regional Community Center, Great Barrington
Time: 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Help raise $20,000 to benefit adaptive swim programs and aquatic equipment. Swim a little or a lot of laps to help or feel free to watch and donate.

More information and tickets here.

'Growing an Art Museum'
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
Time: 2 p.m.
 
Laurie Norton Moffatt will speak on her 40-year tenure leading the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge. She steered the small local museum into an international center for American art illustration. A reception in the Manton Research Center will follow. 
 
The talk is free and open to the public but registration is required. 
 
Registration and for more information here
 
Williamstown Winter Market
Williamstown Elementary School
Time: 9 to 1
 
The final winter market is this Saturday in the school cafeteria with a wide variety of vendors; SNAP dollars are doubled. The next market will in May 16. 
 
More information here
 

Sunday

Craft Jam with Misa Chappell
Future Labs, North Adams
Time: 1 to 3 p.m.

Bring your own craft and work on it with others at the gallery, 43 Eagle St.

More information here.

'Once Upon an Opera'
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, Great Barrington
Time: 2 p.m.

Enjoy a free hourlong interactive concert of opera's best classics. Suitable for all ages. 

More information and reserve here.

2nd Annual Puddle Jumper 5K
Lenox Memorial Middle and High School
Time: 9 a.m.

Lenox Memorial High School's class of 2028 is hosting this year's puddle jumper to celebrate health, wellness, and togetherness to raise funds to support the class throughout their high school years. Enjoy the day while maybe getting a little muddy.

More information and tickets here.


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State Housing Secretary Tours Downtown Pittsfield Developments

By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The state's new secretary of the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities on Monday saw how local developers are transforming historic buildings into downtown housing units. 

Secretary Juana Matias, appointed to the role in February, toured the former St. Joseph's High School on Maplewood Avenue and the near-complete Wright Building Block on North Street.   

Matias observed local leaders working collaboratively to dismantle bottlenecks in housing production, something she said the administration wants to see across all 351 municipalities.  

"This is a perfect model of the partnerships we want to see, and we love coming to the ground and seeing how people are leveraging public taxpayer dollars to help address the issue of our time, which is housing production," she said after the tours. 

Developer David Carver, of Scarafoni Associates & CT Management Group, is seeking support from the state Housing Development Incentive Program to transform St. Joe's into apartments, and Allegrone Companies has secured millions from the program towards the Wright Building renovation

They first visited the shuttered school that functioned as a shelter during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, greeted by broken windows and leaving with Carver's vision. 

The plan is to transform the school with good bones into 19 apartments, 20 percent designated affordable, and 30 percent of the building for commercial use.  Units are expected to cost between $1,700 and $1,900 per month; 14 one-bedroom units and five two-bedroom units are planned. 

The project team is in talks with the nearby Berkshire Family YMCA to expand their childcare activities to the building's lower level.  Residents and the daycare would use different entrances. 

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