Recent first prize winners at the prestigious Bordeaux and Banff International String Quartet competitions, the Marmen Quartet will perform quartets by Haydn and Grosshandler, as well as the Brahms Piano Quintet with pianist Victoria Schwartzman.
The funeral of Mr. Allan W. Leslie will be conducted Saturday, April 13, at 1 p.m., at the Roche Funeral Home, with Rev. Joel Bergenland, Pastor of Zion Lutheran Church in Pittsfield, officiating. A calling hour will precede the service from 12 to 1 p.m. Burial will be at a later date.
Dr. Charles Kenny, who heads the Tri-Town Board of Health, told The Edge that the Dec. 20 proposal is flawed by assuming that trucking is the sole transportation option.
“We certainly don’t want to be the last town to move forward with this; we want to act on this as soon as possible,” Town Manager Christopher Ketchum said.
The fact is our region of the EPA has demonstrated its bias towards landfilling and once again will allow yet another massive PCB-dump in Berkshire County. That a handful of local officials have substituted their limited judgment for the desires of an entire diverse community is a travesty.
As written, the initiative would only require governments and business entities to comply with the rights of the Housatonic River as established by the initiative. No lawsuits could be filed against individual residents.
"We’ll have to see what happens with the signed settlement. We can’t rest easy just yet. We hope there are not going to be any appeals. We hope EPA moves forward to issue a new permit based on the settlement agreement.”
-- Great Barrington Town Manager and Director of Planning & Community Development Chris Rembold
“There is no failsafe technology. In fact, we think the best technology for this level of PCBs is landfilling, because if we use one of these other technologies we might knock it down from 20 ppm to 5 ppm, or even 1 ppm, it still needs to be put somewhere. You still need a landfill.”
-- Bryan Olson, director of the Superfund and Emergency Management Division of the Environmental Protection Agency
The questions I pose are prompted from years working to create strong coalitions to fight General Electric - a rare coalition of former GE workers, sportsmen and women, local Lakewood homeowners whose front- and backyards were contaminated with high levels of PCBs, and environmentalists.
For more than three decades, the EPA has been negotiating with GE toward a goal of cleaning up the Housatonic River. The Rest of River settlement is the latest attempt at fulfilling that goal.
After his retirement from General Electric, he spent 24 years in his hometown of East Aurora, New York, before moving back to Berkshire County in 2011.
The only way for the item calling for withdrawal to be placed on the warrant is for the selectmen to put it there, even though they were the ones who signed the settlement on behalf of the town in the first place.
