After college, Michael changed gears and became a professional long-distance trucker, working for several companies including Beacon Moving and Storage in New York and UPS.
He worked at the New England Telephone Company and retired as an award-winning sales manager. With good friend Sam Dellea, he started and ran Berkshire County Cellular for many years.
She served as a teacher, a counselor and curriculum organizer in the Pittsfield Adult Learning Center and a program within the learning center became her focus: adult learning disability.
Author Alex Marshall will present new ideas about how transportation–including modern passenger rail and 21st-century innovations such as driverless cars–can be designed and managed in the public interest.
The OLLI University Day speakers will include Sen. Adam Hinds; Ben Forman, research director at MassINC; Christine Rudd, director of Roca in Springfield; Berkshire County Sheriff Tom Bowler; and Kate Byrne of the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative in Albany, New York.
The faith communities of Berkshire County will gather for a public training on the opioid overdose reversal medication Narcan (naloxone) Tuesday, Oct. 17, at 10:30 a.m. at Trinity Church in Lenox.
Participants in the public education forum will include Massachusetts Jobs with Justice, United Educators of Pittsfield, the Massachusetts Teachers Association, NAACP Berkshire County Branch, Berkshire Democratic Brigades and the Four Freedoms Coalition.
Starring Tony Award-winner Roger Robinson–who reprises his BPL staged reading role as Donald–and Leon Addison Brown, “Some Old Black Man” relates the experiences of two generations of African-American men in a post-civil rights movement culture.
O negative red blood cells and AB plasma can be transfused into any patient, regardless of blood type, making donors with these universal blood types an important part of the Red Cross trauma team.
A longtime Stockbridge resident, Denny Alsop made the first crossing of Massachusetts by canoe in 1988 and his journey resulted in the introduction of the Massachusetts Rivers Protection Act.
The Four Freedoms march and rally has garnered the support of over 80 community partners and more than 20 elected officials such as Massachusetts senators Edward Markey and Elizabeth Warren, Pittsfield Mayor Linda Tyer and North Adams Mayor Richard Alcombright.
