Dr. Hara D. Charlier, president of Central Lakes College in Minnesota, was recommended unanimously by the Board of Trustees following a national search, pending approval by the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education.
In a letter to Community Development Corporation of South Berkshire, MassDEP wrote that, while the plan to remove all contaminated soil from both the Housatonic riverfront and from the area for an affordable housing development is “protective of human health and the environment,” the relocation of that soil to other parts of the site may be harmful.
