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Northern Berkshire Youth Hockey to Host Bruins' Learn to Play Program

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- Northern Berkshire Youth Hockey League once again will host the Boston Bruins Academy Learn to Play Hockey Program.
 
This program takes place in two parts: Registration and fittings in August/September, and the four-week on-ice program at Peter W. Foote Vietnam Veterans Memorial Skating Rink starting the first weekend in October.
 
For a registration fee of $140, the program includes: a full set of CCM equipment to keep ($500 value); a professional personalized fitting led by Pure Hockey’s fit experts; four weeks of on-ice instruction led by certified coaches.
 
 
Skating lessons are highly recommended before the start of the Bruins Academy Learn to Play program. In addition, this program is intended for children who have not participated in an organized hockey program or Bruins Academy Learn to Play before. Children must have been born between 2010-14 to take part.
 
Additionally NBYHL will offer Bruins Academy participants 16 additional weeks of hockey in their Learn to Play hockey program. All participants are required to register with USA hockey ($54 cost).
 
For questions, please contact NBYHL at nbyhlwebmaster@gmail.com.
 
Celebrating 50 years of hockey. Northern Berkshire Youth Hockey (NBYHL), founded in 1969, has promoted and developed the game of hockey among the youth of Northern Berkshire County, Massachusetts and Southern Vermont.  Our league has travel teams (Black Bears) for children age 6 years through high school. We also boast a recreational house league (Bear Cubs) for ages 4-12 years, including a session which teaches children how to skate. 
 
The purpose of the league is to provide the best available instruction to teach the game of hockey, stress the importance of physical fitness, and provide the core values of USA Hockey: sportsmanship; respect for the individual; integrity; pursuit of excellence as an individual, team and organization; enjoyment; loyalty; and teamwork.
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North Adams Committee Rejects Changes to Airport Commission Ordinance

By Tammy Daniels iBerkshires Staff
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The General Government Committee is recommending the City Council reject a proposal for council approval of appointments to the Airport Commission.
 
The question had been raised after an appointment to the commission by Mayor Jennifer Macksey had come under fire at a council meeting. Macksey had withdrawn his name and appointed him without council approval, as laid out in the city charter. Prior to that, she had put forward all appointments to boards and committees for confirmation.
 
The 2-1 vote, with committee member Ashley Shade voting nay, came after a sometimes testy debate on Tuesday over whether the current language aligns with state and federal laws. 
 
The committee also recommended, again with Shade voting no, to not amend the ordinance to prohibit anyone with business at the airport from serving on the commission. Attorney Joel Bard of KP Law, the city solicitor, said state laws were in place to deal with the conflicts of interest on the independent commission that Shade sought to deter. 
 
"There's a whole apparatus at the state level to enforce the conflict of interest law. That's not self-enforcing, so if there is a violation that's occurring, somebody needs to bring it to the attention of the staff of the State Ethics Commission," Bard said, attending via Zoom. "There's a large state bureaucracy that enforces that law."
 
Shade had put forward the language she said would bring the ordinance in line with MGL Chapter 90, Section 51E that states airport commissioners "shall be appointed, in cities, by the mayor with the approval of the city council, and in towns by the selectmen." 
 
"It's this MGL provision that allowed us to establish an airport commission. Airport commissions did not exist before the charter, because this provision is what allows us to even have an airport commission," she said. "We should be following this provision in MGL to the exact letter of the law, because it is what allows us to even formulate and have the Airport Commission to run and operate."
 
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