Letter: Breen Has Right Experience for North Adams Council

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To the Editor:

Well, I just voted, and I gave my first vote for City Council to Pete Breen. Why, you ask?

No other new candidate has the experience and devotion and has been as generous with their time. Over the past 40 years, Pete has served on many boards and commissions. He has worked for a variety of employers including MCLA, where Pete was a facilitator and instructor for technology and curriculum development and assistant registrar. Pete took that experience over into the town of Adams, where he implemented the town's entire computer system, serving as the town's technology administrator. Pete then went farther south, where he was a member of the adjunct faculty at BCC for four years.

Shifting gears into education, Pete taught computer science at Hoosac Valley for 12 years, while also serving in the district office and as the pupil transportation officer.



After retiring from compensated work, Pete set his sights on volunteering in North Adams serving on the License Board Commission and serving as the North Adams representative for the Northern Berkshire Vocational School District, and finally, Pete's current passion, serving on the Hoosic River Revival Board.

That's why I gave my first vote to Pete Breen. And I hope that you do too.

David Willette
North Adams, Mass.

 

 


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MCLA Awarded Funds For Early Education Center

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Congressman Richard E. Neal joined Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) President James F. Birge, North Adams Mayor Jennifer Macksey, MCLA students, faculty, and staff, and state and local officials to announce $1,200,000 in federal funding for the MCLA Early Education Center.
 
"I am delighted to join with President Birge and the MCLA community to announce funding for the establishment of a new early education center. This investment will deliver tangible results across the board: allowing parents to go to work, ensuring our children have access to a strong educational foundation, and providing hands-on training for our future workforce," said Congressman Neal. "Access to affordable, high-quality child care is essential to working families and strengthening our workforce. That is why, as Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, I helped enact the largest investment in child care in our nation’s history. With announcements like the one today, we are continuing to build on our progress in removing barriers to workforce participation, while giving our children the tools they need to achieve their potential."
 
These funds will allow MCLA to renovate its Church Street Center into a facility that provides a dedicated space for early education partners throughout North County. This space will provide a learning lab for students and child care services for the campus and local community, benefiting a minimum of thirty families and reinstating 12-15 early childhood educator/staff positions.
 
"For the families who depend on these programs and the educators who make them possible, this is a meaningful and lasting commitment, said James F. Birge, president of MCLA. "MCLA is proud to be the home for this work, and we are grateful to Congressman Neal for making it happen."
 
This allocation was made possible through Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Congressman Neal included funding for this project in the Fiscal Year 2026 spending bill.
 
 
 
 
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