Letter: Vote No On Oct. 8

To the Editor:

My issue is that the numbers just don't add up. [Grades] preK to 2 numbers are trending down. MCAS scores are down. The amount of surplus property the city owns is growing.

Disingenuous people sending their children to private schools while claiming the need for a new school. Additional burden to taxpayers for the need of a new public safety complex.

Sitting city councilor profiting from his documented pro new school position. The omission of up-to-date enrollment numbers.

City employee running a private business in a public building that NAPS oversees. A member of the School Committee that has voted for increases to his employer's bus contract. (Editor's note: the member recused themself. )

These numbers just don't add up for me.

Chris Tremblay
North Adams, Mass. 

North County, Pittsfield Hold Egg Scrambles

iBerkshires Staff02:34PM / Saturday, April 19, 2025

Above, ready, set, go in Williamstown; below a mad scramble for eggs in Clarksburg. See more photos here.

CLARKSBURG, Mass. — A number of egg scrambles were held in the Berkshires on Saturday ahead of Easter. 

 

The light spring ran didn't stop hundreds of children from darting across lawns and fields to search for treasure in the form of plastic eggs. 

 

Peter A. Cook VFW Post 9144 held its annual event at the town field named in memory of Cook, Clarskburg's only Vietnam War casualty. Children in four age categories ran, or toddled, across the field to grab brightly colored eggs. 

 

The returned to the pavilion for juice and cookies and, if they were lucky, a large basket for the holders of tickets hidden in four eggs. 

 

Remedy Hall and Milne Library in Williamstown scattered eggs across the library lawn — and in bushes, up in trees, on benches and tucked among the blooming daffodils. The rain started just at the signal was given but the eggs were scooped up in a matter of minutes. 

 

Children who found an egg with a blue ticket could pick a toy or game from an assortment set up under a tent. 

 

The annual Pittsfield Eggstravaganza brought hundreds to The Common to chase eggs, search for a golden one and get their picture taken with the Easter Bunny.