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DCR Celebrates $750K Renovation of Monterey DamBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
04:23PM / Tuesday, October 23, 2012 | |
 MONTEREY, Mass. — Protecting the Berkshire's scenic beauty means investing in it and with the reopening of the Benedict Pond Dam, the state has spent $750,000 doing just that.
The dam in the Beartown State Forest was renovated to be handicapped accessible and more welcoming to the public.
Department of Conservation and Recreation Commission Edward Lambert said at a ribbon cutting on Tuesday that the new dam not only provides a high quality of life but will also contribute to the tourism industry.
"The bottom line is that we're very pleased with this infrastructure," Lambert said. "We know these facilities are important to the areas for both the quality of life and some 0 Comments
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Berkshire Museum Awarded $1M for Energy Project| 10:45AM / Wednesday, October 03, 2012 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — U.S. Rep. John W. Olver announced that the U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $1,000,000 to support the Berkshire Museum's 21st Century Energy Project on Wednesday. Slated to be completed by September 2014, the $2,063,687 project will take advantage of advances in solar power, lighting, thermal barriers, energy efficient equipment, and capturing heat byproduct, among other means to implement renewable energy and energy efficiency measures into the museum's building systems. "With its well-established track record of providing educational programs for schools and the public, the Berkshire Museum is poised to play a strong role in raising awareness 2 Comments
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Dufour Bus Co. Fined For Hazardous Waste ViolationsStaff Reports,
03:05PM / Friday, August 03, 2012 | |
 HINSDALE, Mass. — The state Department of Environmental Protection fined Dufour Escorted Tours $12,500 for a diesel fuel spill at their South Street facility.
According to MassDEP, the company failed to notify the state agency within two hours of becoming aware of a 10-gallon diesel fuel spill that occurred on June 17, 2011. The spill was caused during the fueling of a bus and was reported three days later. However, state law requires that MassDEP is notified as soon as possible.
On June 23, 2011, MassDEP inspected the facility and cited the company for numerous hazardous waste management violation including that Dufour was incorrectly registered with the state as a generator of waste 0 Comments
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Campers and Volunteers Team Up to Clean Pittsfield RiverBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
05:15PM / Wednesday, July 18, 2012 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Dozens of teenagers from Camp Taconic spent a hot Wednesday morning pulling shopping carts, tires and trash out of the Housatonic River.
Organized by the Berkshire Environmental Action Team, campers spent two hours Wednesday and are planning to spend Thursday morning cleaning the West Branch of the river. The cleanup is one of many BEAT is organizing this year that continues its tradition of trying to keep the water clean.
"BEAT has been doing it for nine years now and we're definitely seeing progress," Bruce Winn, a BEAT strategist, said. "We now have to scout locations to make sure there is enough to keep us busy."
When BEAT first started 0 Comments
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Farm Program Marks 10 Years of 'Sharing The Bounty'By Stephen Dravis, Special to iBerkshires
03:55PM / Tuesday, July 17, 2012 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Giving to those less fortunate is always good.
Giving in a way that multiplies the good work and keeps the money you contribute in the local economy is even better.
That is the point of Berkshire Grown's Share the Bounty program, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this weekend with a party at Lenox's Stonover Farm.
Share the Bounty connects local food pantries, community kitchens and participants in the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program with community-supported agriculture farms throughout the region. Money donated to Share the Bounty is used to buy shares at the CSA farms, and those shares are given to the pantries and kitchens to help them provide 4 Comments
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Pittsfield, Lenox Solar Programs Select Installer| 11:55PM / Thursday, July 12, 2012 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Solarize Pittsfield-Lenox and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center have selected Astrum Solar as the Solarize Mass installer for Pittsfield and Lenox.
Astrum, a full-service residential solar company, will work with Nate Joyner and Susan May, the Solarize Mass Community solar coaches, to implement the program in partnership with MassCEC. A "Solar 201" public meeting will be on , andto introduce the installer to the community, and answer questions from residents and business owners in Pittsfield and Lenox. Both meetings begin at 7 p.m.
"Pittsfield is already leading the way in solar photovoltaics in Massachusetts,” said Joyner, solar coach 0 Comments
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Local Foresters On Lookout For Invasive BeetlesBy Stephen Dravis, Special to iBerkshires.com
11:36AM / Sunday, July 01, 2012 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The closest anyone at Hopkins Forest on Saturday got to an actual Asian longhorned beetle was a dead and mounted variety.
And that is just the way landowner likes it.
But in case the exotic invasive insect finds its way into the Berkshires, several dozen residents are better prepared to spot the pest after Saturday's workshop presented by Samantha Brady, a forest pest outreach and survey coordinator with the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources.
Brady's talk was titled "Invasive Species: What's Here And What's On The Horizon," and it focused on two invasives that have the region surrounded: the Asian long-horned beetle in Worcester and the 0 Comments
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Green Building Practices Driving Design, SavingsBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
01:26PM / Wednesday, June 27, 2012 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The soaring windows of the new MountainOne Financial Center had their start in a more prosaic past: Long lines at pumps back in the 1970s when the oil crisis pushed gas to the exorbitant price of more than 50 cents a dollar a gallon.
The oil crisis sparked a movement for greater efficiency and sustainability not just in automobiles, but in the way we live and what we live in.
The MountainOne building, in its prominent position off East Street in the William Stanley Business Park, is an example of the latest trends in that movement, with the use of recycled structural materials, non-toxic interior elements, extensive and natural site preparation and 0 Comments
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Architect Poses New Ideas for Pittsfield PreservationBy Joe Durwin, Pittsfield Correspondent
12:20PM / Monday, June 25, 2012 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Recent architecture graduate and local-born native Tessa Kelly says there is more than one way Pittsfield can look at historical preservation.
In an new exhibit now on display at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Kelly blurs the lines between art, architecture, and serious suggestions for new ways at looking at preservation in the context of further urban revitalization locally.
In "Re-Imagining Pittfield's History and Heritage," on display through June 30, she poses the idea that local history can be constructively preserved not only in maintaining buildings from the past, but also by incorporating inspirations from what she calls "layers" of 0 Comments
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EPA Outlines Potential Plan for Housatonic CleanupBy Joe Durwin, Pittsfield Correspondent
11:20AM / Saturday, May 26, 2012 | |
 LENOX, Mass. — Months of cooperation has brought some progress in the planning to clean up the southern Housatonic River, though definitive plans for remediation are still evolving, and actual cleanup is still years off.
That was the message that emerged Thursday as representatives from state and federal environmental agencies met with more than a hundred concerned area residents at Lenox Memorial High School to discuss their current thinking on the controversial issue of river cleanup.
"We have a lot more work to do, and a lot more public comment will come in," said Kenneth Kimmel, commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Protection. "But I will say I think 0 Comments
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