“The retreat brings people together, builds community in the forest, gets participants outside and off their screens, and uses nature sustainably to heal and inspire minds and souls,” stated Great Mountain Forest Executive Director Michael Zafros. Retreat registration closes on July 30.
“There is a chronic risk to current postal workers exposed to basement air at the [Great Barrington] Post Office due to naphthalene, PCE and TCE” left from the adjacent Ried Cleaners, an environmental consultant concluded.
“It’s easy to sit back and look at a disaster and say, take the guns away. We do have strict gun laws and we still have a problem.”
-- State Rep. William "Smitty" Pignatelli, D-Lenox
Coleman was an avid hunter and fisherman and loved the outdoors. Coleman worked in the local paper mills and was employed by Peter J. Schweitzer as a boiler technician, in Lee, Mass.
CHP Board of Directors has hired Lia Spiliotes, a partner and senior advisor in Cambridge Management Group to fill the gap left by the resignation of former Director Bryan Ayars.
Katherine worked for many years at Berkshire Bark as a chocolate maker, a job she loved. Prior to that, she worked at St. Mary’s school in Lee, Mass., along with her mother.
"What is good for Williamstown, could be just as beneficial for Sheffield. It’s not about location, it’s about collaboration and process."
-- Andrea Wadsworth, Lee School Committee Chairperson.
An active member of her community, Alma was a former president of the East Lee Civic Association, officer of the Senior Citizens Club, chairperson on the Council on Aging
“The Academy was one of the most physically and mentally demanding experiences I have endured. I feel much more confident in the jobs I will have to perform ... and I am incredibly proud to serve the community.”
-- Great Barrington firefighter Jacob Borden
“We are grateful for Bryan’s important contributions to CHP during his tenure. The Board has engaged an interim management team to bring administrative leadership to CHP in the coming months.”
--- Jodi Rathbun-Briggs, president of CHP Board of Directors
Their concern, doctors say, is that the quality of patient care at CHP’s health centers is at risk in a climate where physicians’ voices are ignored or marginalized, where staff members who raise concerns are bullied to the point where they eventually leave or are fired.
