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Don Zasada always enjoyed rural life, but it took him years to find his niche in agriculture â growing organic produce to sell through a community-supported agriculture program. As a youth, Zasada worked on dairy farms near Bridgeport, New York, and realized dairying was not a good fit for him. âIt was incredibly hard work where you made hardly any money,â he said. âI wanted to get as far away from that as possible.â Little did he realize at the time that his yen to get away would take him to far-flung places like Chile and not-so-far locales such as Williamstown, Massachusetts, where he now lives. ....
On Tuesday evening, they have another chance to decide whether to move forward or again press the pause button.
The committee is scheduled to take a vote on a $44,000 proposal from architect Perkins Eastman to draw up bid documents for a renovation of the school s playing fields that includes a multi-sport synthetic turf field.
Without the updated documents, the district cannot put the project projected to cost north of $2 million out to bid. Committing to the $44,000 expense now makes it a near certainty that it ultimately will reissue the request for proposals.
It would be the second time in a year and a half that the district would be soliciting bids for the project. The first round came in well over the projected cost of the project and were rejected in September 2019. ....
NORTH ADAMS â If you are not talking to your kids about drugs, sex and alcohol, they inevitably will get their information elsewhere. That is what Wendy Penner, director of Prevention and Recovery at the Northern Berkshire Community Coalition, wants parents to know. Kids pick up information about alcohol and sex everywhere, she says, including in advertising, media and their own social circles. âJust because theyâre not saying anything doesnât mean theyâre not forming beliefs,â Penner said. The good news, she says, is that parents can shape those beliefs just by having simple, regular conversations about how to make good decisions: Studies show that young people who openly communicate with their parents are less likely to engage in risky behaviors. ....