image description — The EV charging stations were installed at the Stanley and Susan B. Anthony Annexes in August of 2025, and are meant to power BCC maintenance and state-owned vehicles.

BCC Gets EV Chargers Through State Grant

By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff
12:21PM / Wednesday, April 15, 2026Print Story | Email Story

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — With a state grant, Berkshire Community College has installed eight chargers for electric maintenance vehicles.

On Tuesday, the college highlighted this "step towards technological modernization" that was made possible by a $133,000 grant from the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources.

The EV charging stations were installed at the Stanley and Susan B. Anthony Annexes in August of 2025, and are meant to power BCC maintenance and state-owned vehicles. Installation was funded by a $133,161 Fleet EV Charging Deployment Grant Program award provided by the Mass DOER's Leading By Example grant program.

Director of Facilities Jason Dion reported that the EV stations are restricted to maintenance vehicles because there is no purchasing option for the electrical use. The project essentially created a grid of charging stations across the Commonwealth for any state-owned vehicle to charge while traveling outside its respective county, he explained.

"The grant covered costs associated with fleet electric vehicle charging deployment at BCC, including procurement, installation and maintenance of eight single-port charging stations and preparatory work to enable future installation of two additional charging ports," a press release from BCC reads.

"In October 2024, Guardian Energy was awarded the contract to install the EV charging stations at the Stanley and Susan B."

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Dalton Considers Updating its Municipal Code

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
01:21PM / Thursday, August 27, 2026

DALTON, Mass. — The town is considering updating its original 18-year municipal code to 2026 standards.

During a recent Select Board meeting, General Code New England account manager Zach Dumont outlined the 18- to-24 month process.

General Code New England is a division of the International Code Council, which writes all the statewide building codes across the United States. For the last 18 years, the organization has been the codifier for municipalities.

"We work with communities to build, maintain, and update your local municipal code. That is your collection of bylaws, ordinances, regulations, and any other legislation you've ever adopted," Dumont said.

Once the project is complete, the town would have a fully updated set of books and an improved eCode360 site, he said.

"The way the process would work is we would put together a scope of work, a timeline, a price point, and everything that we would want to touch or do as a part of the code project," Dumont said.

When a municipal code is built, it has a general lifespan of about 15 to 20 years, and although that is a long time, it goes by very quickly, he said.

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