“This event brings everybody in the community together,” Chamber Executive Director Betsy Andrus told The Berkshire Edge in a past interview. “It brings out residents and out-of-town visitors together with our business owners.
In a letter to the editor, Mae Whaley writes, "As much as it is necessary for us to stay aware of the overt ways in which police departments across the country are contributing to racism, we cannot allow the constant images and videos of tear gas, rubber bullets and concussion grenades to lower our standards for how we expect our police to behave."
