Pittsfield Has Spent 70% of ARPA Funds

The city's nearly $41 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds are committed and almost 70 percent has been spent.

Pittsfield Allocates All ARPA Funds

All of the city's American Rescue Plan Act monies have been allocated to meet the state's end-of-year deadline.

Pittsfield Housing Trust Awards $860K in APRA Funds

With an end-of-year deadline, the trust recommended three projects for funding, and extra American Rescue Plan Act monies were allocated to fill the gaps. The panel was originally awarded $500,000 to disperse.

Dalton Board to Discuss Remaining ARPA Funds

The town will be deciding how it wants to use its remainder of the American Rescue Plan Act funds before the Dec. 31 deadline.

Pittsfield Housing Trust Has End of Year ARPA Deadline

The Affordable Housing Trust has four months to commit a half-million dollars in American Rescue Plan Act funds.

Bel Air Dam's $20M Demolition Facing Year-End Deadline

The $20 million allocated to demolish the Bel Air Dam will expire at the end of the year if a contractor is not chosen.

Williamstown Select Board Commits ARPA Funds to Mount Greylock School District Project

On a vote of 4-0, the board agreed to contribute about $66,000 — what remains uncommitted from the town's original ARPA grant of about $2 million — as requested by the Mount Greylock School Committee.

Mount Greylock Committee Accepts ARPA Offer, Sets Vote on Latin

The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee on Thursday moved forward with a proposal to fund a consultant with about $66,000 of Williamstown's American Rescue Plan Act funds.

Williamstown Officials Mull ARPA Funds to Address School Race Issue

The Select Board on Monday considered dedicating some of the town's remaining ARPA funds to address an emergency situation in the local public schools.

Dalton Fire District Votes to Return Ladder Truck ARPA Funds to Town

Williamstown Select Board Awards ARPA Funds to Remedy Hall

On a unanimous vote, the board voted to grant the American Rescue Plan Act money to support Remedy Hall, a resource center that provides "basic life necessities" and emotional support to "individuals and families experiencing great hardship."

Pittsfield Has Allocated Almost All ARPA Funds

The city has allocated $40.4 million of its $40.6 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds and the rest must be committed by the end of the year.

Pittsfield Receives $20M For Bel Air Dam Removal

On Friday, members of the Healey-Driscoll administration celebrated the investment of $25 million in ARPA funding — most of it going to Pittsfield — to remove eight abandoned, hazardous dams in the commonwealth.

Select Board Considers Reclaiming Ladder Truck ARPA Funds

Despite earlier reports from the district that the ladder truck had entered the paint booth in August, it was disclosed in a board meeting in October that the truck was far from completion.

Dalton OKs More ARPA Allocations

The town had previously decided to allocate $380,000 for sewer repairs but it was announced during the Select Board meeting on Tuesday that the sewer rehabilitation bids came in substantially lower than what was projected.

Pittsfield Shares profiles of ARPA Recipients

The city released the sixth profile, highlighting the work of Arts in Recovery for Youth (AIRY).

Pittsfield Spent 30% of ARPA Funds By Second Quarter

Pittsfield received the funds nearly two years ago and has expended more than $12 million of the nearly $41 million award.

Pittsfield Sees Significant Spending of ARPA Funds in First Quarter of 2023

Fifty percent ($2.1 million) funded negative economic impacts, 32 percent ($1.4 million) public health, and 15 percent (about $682,000) infrastructure.

Williamstown Select Board Directs ARPA Funds to Elementary School Projects

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.

Williamstown Library Seeking ARPA Funds for Building Study

Milne Public Library officials last week asked the Select Board to allocate American Rescue Plan Act funds to pay for an architect's analysis of the Main Street facility.