All Saints Offering Annual Senior Thanksgiving Dinners

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — North Berkshire seniors home alone on Thanksgiving can sign up to have a turkey dinner with the trimmings delivered to their home. 
 
This year's "Thanksgiving for Seniors Program" will enter its 39th year serving the Northern Berkshire area.
 
It is designed to serve people 60 years of age and older who are alone on Thanksgiving and have no way of having a traditional Thanksgiving meal and who reside in Adams, Cheshire, the town of Florida, North Adams and Williamstown. The meals will be delivered by community volunteers on Thanksgiving Day between 11 a.m. and 1p.m. 
 
The program is provided and organized by local volunteers from the Northern Berkshire community and by the All Saints Weekend Meal Ministry. Funding for this program is provided by All Saints Episcopal Church and community donations.
 
This year, Shannon Daugherty, Aja Daugherty and Syid Uqdah will be spearheading the program. They have assisted with this program for numerous years and are ready to take the helm. The meal will be a traditional Thanksgiving dinner consisting of roast turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, vegetable, gravy, cranberry sauce, roll and pumpkin pie. 
 
There is no charge for this meal but seniors who wish to receive a meal must make a reservation beginning Monday, Nov. 6, through Nov. 17.
 
To make a reservation: contact All Saints Episcopal Church at 413-664-9656 between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 1 p.m., Monday through Thursday. If no one picks up, leave your name, address including town, and phone number on the answering machine. Please speak clearly so the office can call back to confirm your reservation.
 
The ministry is also looking for volunteers to deliver the meals on Thanksgiving Day; volunteer by calling the number above. 

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North Adams' Route 2 Study Looks at 'Repair, Replace and Remove'

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff

Attendees make comments and use stickers to indicate their thoughts on the priorities for each design.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Nearly 70 residents attended a presentation on Saturday morning on how to stitch back together the asphalt desert created by the Central Artery project.
 
Of the three options proposed — repair, replace or restore — the favored option was to eliminating the massive overpass, redirect traffic up West Main and recreate a semblance of 1960s North Adams.
 
"How do we right size North Adams, perhaps recapture a sense of what was lost here with urban renewal, and use that as a guide as we begin to look forward?" said Chris Reed, director of Stoss Landscape Urbanism, the project's designer.
 
"What do we want to see? Active street life and place-making. This makes for good community, a mixed-use downtown with housing, with people living here ... And a district grounded in arts and culture."
 
The concepts for dealing with the crumbling bridge and the roads and parking lots around it were built from input from community sessions last year.
 
The city partnered with Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art for the Reconnecting Communities Pilot Program and was the only city in Massachusetts selected. The project received $750,000 in grant funding to explore ways to reconnect what Reed described as disconnected "islands of activity" created by the infrastructure projects. 
 
"When urban renewal was first introduced, it dramatically reshaped North Adams, displacing entire neighborhoods, disrupting street networks and fracturing the sense of community that once connected us," said Mayor Jennifer Macksey. "This grant gives us the chance to begin to heal that disruption."
 
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