Dalton Green Committee Seeking CAP Logo Submissions

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
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DALTON, Mass. — The Dalton Green Committee is asking Wahconah Regional High School to submit logo designs for its Climate Action Plan. 
 
The committee has sent a letter to the school's art teacher, Bonnie Capogna, requesting her students' assistance in creating a design to accompany its CAP. 
 
"We would like the logo to touch upon one or more of the following attributes representative of our community or any other pertinent attributes [including] the Housatonic River, Appalachian Trail, Pine Grove and Greenridge parks, the town hall, Community, Recreation Association, family and community values, smallness, friendliness, and charm of our community," Green Committee member Laurie Martinelli said. 
 
"The logo may reflect Dalton's past, present, and future environmental climate status. Designs may include a phrase or tagline … The artists will be publicly recognized for their cap contribution."
 
All designs should be submitted to the Dalton Green Committee by Oct. 31. Following the deadline, the committee will review all the submissions and submit the qualifying logos to its steering committee for a final selection of one or more designs. 
 
Once a design is selected, the committee's CAP consultant, Blue Strike, will have its graphic designer amend the selected logo, which the artist will review and approve. 
 
Blue Strikes graphic designer is meant to "clean up and tie up a few key concepts" that the committee brings to them, said Cisco Tomasino, climate and events manager, during a previous meeting. 
 
The committee is developing a climate action plan with Blue Strike to achieve net-zero by 2050 by seeking strategies to decrease the town's dependence on fossil fuels for homes, businesses, municipal facilities, and vehicles. 
 
Part of this process is community engagement, which involves informing residents about the climate action plan, gathering community input for its development, and answering people's questions. 
 
"A picture is worth 1,000 words," committee member Antonio Pagliarulo said during a previous meeting.  

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Letter: Is the Select Board Listening to Dalton Voters?

Letter to the Editor

To the Editor:

A reasonable expectation by the people of a community is that their Select Board rises above personal preference and represents the collective interests of the community. On Tuesday night [Nov. 12], what occurred is reason for concern that might not be true in Dalton.

This all began when a Select Board member submitted his resignation effective Oct. 1 to the Town Clerk. Wishing to fill the vacated Select Board seat, in good faith I followed the state law, prepared a petition, and collected the required 200-plus signatures of which the Town Clerk certified 223. The Town Manager, who already had a copy of the Select Board member's resignation, was notified of the certified petitions the following day. All required steps had been completed.

Or had they? At the Oct. 9 Select Board meeting when Board members discussed the submitted petition, there was no mention about how they were informed of the petition or that they had not seen the resignation letter. Then a month later at the Nov. 12 Select Board meeting we learn that providing the resignation letter and certified petitions to the Town Manager was insufficient. However, by informing the Town Manager back in October the Select Board had been informed. Thus, the contentions raised at the Nov. 12 meeting by John Boyle seem like a thinly veiled attempt to delay a decision until the end of January deadline to have a special election has passed.

If this is happening with the Special Election, can we realistically hope that the present Board will listen to the call by residents to halt the rapid increases in spending and our taxes that have been occurring the last few years and pass a level-funded budget for next year, or to not harness the taxpayers in town with the majority of the cost for a new police station? I am sure these issues are of concern to many in town. However, to make a change many people need to speak up.

Please reach out to a Select Board member and let them know you are concerned and want the Special Election issue addressed and finalized at their Nov. 25 meeting.

Robert E.W. Collins
Dalton, Mass.

 

 

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