Guests are invited to wander the galleries of the Berkshire Museum, encountering a pop-up-style production of monologues, duologues, and songs from Shakespeare's canon performed with actors performing passages that resonate with the Museum's art and objects.
Building Grounds Superintendent Patrick Pettit told the Select Board last week that he noticed the abatement contractor missed a 3 1/2 by 8-foot section of plaster wall in the opera house.
The tree was donated by the Conway School of Landscape Design in Northampton in honor of its 50th anniversary and replaces one that fell down during a windstorm last about a year ago.
Town meeting will be asked to authorize a number of spending articles, including a $21 million budget. Of that, $10 million is the assessment to the Central Berkshire Regional School District and $9.4 million is the town operating budget.
The School Building Committee had a bit of sticker shock on Tuesday when the range for a renovation or new school construction topped out at $90 million.
Business Development Manager Michael Coakley explained that the conversation began several months ago when the economic development agency asked how it could help attract more innovative companies and advanced manufacturers.
Specifically, school officials attended Monday's meeting to ask the town to support an estimated $550,000 to $600,000 project to replace the two playgrounds at the preK-6 facility.
Neighbors of Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts say they are concerned about a lack of transparency and the unknown impacts that 50 to 75 families will have on the community's resources and the college.
A routine inspection in 2018 uncovered severe deterioration to several of the bridge's beams and showed that the supporting concrete structure needed rehabilitation.
The work is proposed within the riverfront area and bordering land subject to flooding due to its proximity to the east branch of the Housatonic River.
The conference is held annually to highlight the latest innovative transportation systems, management ideas, and initiatives and is open to all transportation practitioners including federal, state, local agencies, Metropolitan Planning Organizations, transit agencies, academia, and private industry.
In 2022, the commissioners voted to go forward with the renovation of the derelict hangar, purchased by the city. The project would tap a mix of state, federal, and local funds.