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General Electric’s PCB dumping is ‘unconscionable’

In her letter to the editor, Elizabeth Inglis writes: “Depositing PCBs onto land that is now free of toxins in a community setting is unconscionable.”

To the editor:

Come on, GE, do the right thing. You have a chance to do something positive and to show your good intentions to the community in which you operated and from which you benefited for many years. Depositing PCBs onto land that is now free of toxins in a community setting is unconscionable. If you are not careful, we may have to change your motto of bringing good things to life.

Elizabeth Shaker Inglis

Great Barrington

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Berkshire Hills Regional School District’s shortcomings

The upcoming push to fund a new high school is focused on building something bigger and better while ignoring the fact that times have changed and that the goals must change as well.

Ms. Hritzuk’s recent Letter to the Editor regarding Stockbridge Town Meeting contains several inaccuracies

Ms. Hritzuk writes, "the meeting seemed designed to derail the citizen's position." I am aware of no reasonable basis for such an accusation.

Feeling disillusioned after attending my first Stockbridge Town Meeting

While I expected debate on Article 17 to be heated, I assumed that transparent and consistently applied rules would govern the meeting. What I observed instead was a concerted effort to put the citizens who submitted the petition at the grossest possible disadvantage.

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