"This funding ensures [these performing arts centers] can continue to attract exceptional touring performances, expand access to high-quality arts experiences, and strengthen local economies across Massachusetts,” said Mass Cultural Council Acting Executive Director David T. Slatery.
Investigating officers concluded that the “verbal altercation...allegedly involving racist comments between two high school students...did not rise to a physical level.”
“It is important that we, as adults, support young people who are willing and have the courage to stand up against injustice.” Dennis Powell, president, NAACP Berkshire County branch
A factor in Downing’s decision to support Hinds' candidacy was Hinds’ familiarity with facilitating collaboration and dialogue among diverse sets of stakeholders.
Christine Canning-Wilson says this is Massachusetts, where Republicans aren’t as hardcore as they are elsewhere. “My social values are very left. I’m very people-oriented. People are people; a soul is a soul.”
Texas Republican John Culberson, who has voted to bar the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases, has said he believes that a higher power has put life on other worlds and he wants to find it on his watch.
Many towns in southern Berkshire County will offer early voting options in advance of the election on Tuesday, Nov. 8. All registered voters are eligible to vote early.
Berkshire Natural Resources Council has launched a $5 million capital campaign to buy up and conserve more “missing pieces” to create trails that will link town and village centers.
Adina Simonson, who drove about 55 feet with one pedestrian on her car, can no longer drive in Massachusetts. She is also prevented from ever reapplying for a new driver's license.
"Imagine a senior citizen going to Boston for a medical appointment paying over $22 in tolls round trip. That toll is far too high and particularly unfair to Berkshire residents.”
--State Rep. Tricia Farley-Bouvier
Daves Rossell graduated from Williams College with a B.A., having majored in German literature, and later, after computers were in widespread use, earned an M.B.A. from New York University, specializing in systems administration.
“There are bigots and racists in the world, but Monument doesn’t have to be the way the world is out there...we can influence our community by the way we treat others and ourselves.”
--- Student Senate President Teddy Michaels
"We envision a 100 percent walkable Berkshires ... it means we want to give someone the chance to walk from Williamstown to Sandisfield with options to stop at every interesting and refreshing place along the way." -- BNRC President Tad Ames
