ReMarks and Refreshments Forum to be Held in Blandford

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BLANDFORD, Mass. — State Senator Paul W. Mark and state Rep. Nicholas Boldyga invite the public to a "ReMarks and Refreshments" forum on Friday, February 23.
 
The legislators welcome the public to ask questions or offer up comments about opportunities and/or challenges facing the Town of Blandford and Western Massachusetts. Senator Mark and Representative Boldyga will also share some legislative updates from the State House.
 
This event is open to the public and will be held at Blandford Town Hall, 1 Russell Stage Road, from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
 
Senator Mark's Berkshire, Hampden, Franklin, and Hampshire District consists of 57 municipalities in western Massachusetts. He is the chair of the Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts, and Cultural Development; the vice chair of the Joint Committee on Bonding, Capital Expenditures and State Assets; and the vice chair of the Joint Committee on Transportation.
 
Representative Boldyga's Third Hampden District consists of the Hampden County towns of Blandford, Chester, Granville, Montgomery, Russell, Southwick and Tolland; Precincts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 in the city of Agawam; and the Hampshire County towns of Huntington and Middlefield. He is the Ranking Minority on the House Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs.
The Blandford ReMarks and Refreshments event is one in a series of public forums Senator Mark is organizing in an effort to reach all 57 communities.

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Harris Draws Crowds to Downtown Pittsfield

By Brittany Polito & Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff

The closest iBerkshires got was a thumbs up from James Taylor. Most local media was kept outside and iBerkshires has no access to pool photos. 
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Vice President Kamala Harris fired up a capacity crowd at the Colonial Theatre on Saturday afternoon. 
 
The presumed presidential nominee for the Democratic Party was met in Westfield by Gov. Maura Healey before traveling to Pittsfield to give a 15-minute stump speech — more than an hour later than planned. 
 
"It was incredibly inspiring and comforting," said Lee Prinz of Pittsfield. "I felt heard, I felt like, oh, there are people, they are doing something, and we have like-minded individuals and people are taking action. 
 
"It was inspiring because it's also a lot of the responsibility is on us to make this change."
 
Prinz said the veep stuck to the stump speech she's been honing over the last week since President Joe Biden's withdrawal from the campaign. 
 
He said she touched on the administration's successes like the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act, and topics such as bodily autonomy and "hope versus hate." 
 
Harris also talked about Project 2025, a controversial Heritage Foundation document laying out a very conservative path should Donald Trump win the election. Prinz said he was glad to see discussion of the plans break into the mainstream because of how "scary" it is. 
 
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