Letter: Protect Our Water

To the Editor:

Have you heard about the proposed industrial logging project at our forested public drinking-water reservoir in North Adams? In the late summer there was quite the hubbub (rightfully) after the Conservation Commission recommended that herbicides not be sprayed ... next to Notch Reservoir. It seems ridiculous it was ever a plan supported by Mass Audubon. After nearly two years of secretive planning this was the first time most of us heard about this project.

Were you at the Conservation Commission meeting in September where Friends of Notch Forest packed the room, overflowing into hallways, lining the street in protest? Were you one of the 2,000-plus people locally, regionally and internationally who signed our Save Notch Forest petition?

North Adams deserves more than to be used as an experiment by Mass Audubon and its new industrial-logging partners, which seek to unnecessarily replace a mature diverse forest with a tree-seedling farm that cannot enrich the City, nor benefit its human and wildlife residents. We have a vision — not just to stop the logging project to protect our forest, beloved Bellows Pipe hiking trail, and our drinking water — that could financially benefit the City and our environment for generations to come.

Devin Raber
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.