With a state grant in hand, the towns of Dalton and Hinsdale will hire a consultant to study this question: Can one police department, Dalton’s, serve both communities?
Officials in Otis and Becket soon might decide to ask a single chief to run their separate police departments, easing a financial burden on both and putting a spirit of
State and local police and K9 Emma travel on Goose Pond. BECKET, Mass. — State and local police apprehended a fugitive from Maine on Tuesday who had fled to a cabin on.
Becket residents work through a 20-item warrant at their annual town meeting Saturday night. LARRY PARNASS â THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
BECKET â In construction season, as many as 100 heavy-duty trucks can pass each day along Becket roads where Robert Benton likes to walk.
Thatâs what happens when you live near two busy companies, Williams Stone and Tonlino & Sons Crushed Stone, on Algerie Road and neighboring streets.
Benton rose during the annual town meeting Saturday to explain why he shaped a citizens petition on the nightâs warrant after speaking with local truckers and twice presenting a case to the Select Board that the noise from âengine brakingâ is detrimental to well-being and public health.
BECKET â The cause of a devastating Nov. 17 fire that destroyed a performance center at Jacobâs Pillow never will be precisely known, officials now say.
After what it terms an âextensiveâ probe, the office of the state fire marshal said Tuesday that while officials know where the fire started at the nationally known dance center, its cause remains âundetermined,â in part because the building that burned, the Doris Duke Theatre, was a complete loss.
A fire burns Nov. 17 at the Doris Duke Theatre at Jacobâs Pillow in Becket. The fire destroyed the theater, causing $3 million in losses. No one was hurt.