If the town meeting is not able to pass a budget by the end of the fiscal year on June 30, the town of Great Barrington, like hundreds of other small municipalities in the state with a town-meeting form of government, has a problem.
In the cannabis industry, trying to raise capital through traditional borrowing is difficult, in part because most commercial banks avoid lending money for marijuana businesses.
The idea for retail businesses is that most will require masks of customers for the foreseeable future. If a customer does not have a mask, businesses can offer them one because they will now have a supply.
Graduating seniors have been coming into school, three or four at a time, and walking across the auditorium stage to receive their diplomas. The video footage of the students will be incorporated into a virtual graduation.
Prior to reopening, all programs must develop plans for daily health screenings and ways to identify children and staff who are sick, symptomatic or who become exposed to coronavirus.
The project overall remains in strong shape, having received another $400,000 worth of historic rehabilitation tax credit funds earlier this year from the Massachusetts Historical Commission.
Hinds said Berkshire County might see a more aggressive reopening schedule than other portions of the state because of the county's sparsely populated rural landscape.
Nonessential businesses have been shuttered since March 23, but after the Reopening Advisory Board met with over 40 industry stakeholders across the Commonwealth, Baker said in his Monday press briefing that some may gradually begin to reopen by Monday, May 18.
Shoppers are asked to arrive with patience, flexibility and face masks as the community makes yet another shift to what will be the season’s “new normal.”
Limestone Communications, the Record's holding company, also published several other revenue-generating publications, including Best of the Berkshires, and a series of guides for the seasons.
Gov. Charlie Baker recently awarded the Community Development Corporation of South Berkshire an allotment of the 2020 Community Investment Tax Credit Program in the amount of $150,000.
