GLASGOW, Scotland – Pittsfield’s Kellie Harrington Thursday finished 24th in the junior cross country Olympic race at the UCI Cycling World Championships.
Harrington finished 7 minutes, 38 seconds behind the champion, Canada’s Isabella Holmgren, and in the top half of the field among 56 athletes from around the world.
Holmgren completed the race in 1:07:37, to finish 39 seconds ahead of runner-up Marin Lowe, also of Canada.
Harrington finished 21 seconds behind her Team USA teammate, Vida Lopez de San Roman in 23rd place.
The fastest American in the field was Andie Aagard, who placed eighth in 1:10:37.
Both Aagard and Lopez de San Roman compete with Harrington on the Bear Development team, based in Santa Cruz, Calif.
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Child-Care Providers Want Mental Health Support, Better Wages
By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff
Education Secretary Patrick Tutwiler and Early Education and Care Commissioner Amy Kershaw host a listening session on early child care at BCC on Wednesday.
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Local child-care providers called for mental health support and equitable pay at a listening session with state officials this week.
"We don't provide resources for our educators so that they have a strength in the classroom. They're putting out fires constantly. How are they educating? How are they teaching?" said Elise Weller, senior director of child care services at 18 Degrees.
"The social-emotional development of these children is so important."
Katherine Von Haefen, director of community impact at Berkshire United Way, said a single parent with school-aged children needs to make between $70,000 and $80,000 annually just to meet basic needs and a great many local parents are not making that mark — including teachers.
"Just over half of our population now in Berkshire County is considered to be economically challenged, working yet still struggling to make ends meet. Too many of our local educators are part of this economically challenged population," she said.
"Frequently we hear directors sharing stories of staff refusing raises or bonuses so that they do not lose out on key benefits. This is not OK. Early childhood compensation is truly a very complicated issue and one that frankly, has not yet been fully successfully addressed across the country. It's one that's complicated yet, we still need to look at a variety of possible solutions. Multiple solutions that can be piloted and road tested before engaging in large-scale efforts."
Education Secretary Patrick Tutwiler and Early Education and Care Commissioner Amy Kershaw hosted the childcare listening session Wednesday at Berkshire Community College. The panel also included state Outdoor Recreation Director Paul Jahnige, Alvina Brevard of the state Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities, and Undersecretary of Education Mark Reilly.
"We know that there are some really difficult barriers facing this particular field: accessibility, affordability for families, opportunity, and so we will be discussing, I'm sure, all of that," BCC President Ellen Kennedy said.
"I am particularly committed to this. I am the parent of a son who is now in his thirties with a son who was at a child-care center but my son went in at eight weeks old and I have shared on one or two occasions that it was the professionals in the child-care center that made me a better parent, that actually taught me how to parent, and I am forever in their debt for the ways in which they helped me help my son."
On Monday, the Licensing Board approved a new annual downtown all-alcohol restaurant license for the eatery's new location in the former Trattoria Rustica at 27 McKay St.
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Construction vehicles and piles of materials can be seen on the southern portion of the 237-acre park next to the pavilion. Plans include sediment removal, dam repair, and increased accessibility.
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The parking medians are overgrown with weeds, the rain gardens look like jungles and greenery is invading the spaces around the building's exterior.
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