PITTSFIELD, Mass. The MassHire Berkshire Workforce Board on Thursday held its annual meeting virtually during which five local professionals were recognized with Workforce Impact Awards and the board highlighted its yearly efforts in meeting the demand for highly skilled workers in Berkshire County. During fiscal 2021, the board leveraged more than $3.5 million to assist 662 employers, 2,600 job seekers, and 3,400 youth with workforce needs. Since March 2020, the Workforce Board assisted over 650 companies with their workforce needs, answering their immediate employment questions, connecting them to grants and economic development opportunities, referring them to the Career Center, and collaborating with them with numerous training grants, Executive Director Heather Boulger said.
Berkshire Workforce Board Recognizes 5 with Workforce Impact Awards, Highlights Pandemic Efforts
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A map shows areas (in green) that would be covered if AT&T located antennae on just the existing tower near the Williamstown-New Ashford town line. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. The Zoning Board of Appeals on Thursday sent an applicant who wants to build a cellular tower in South Williamstown back to the drawing board one more time. The board spent two hours discussing an application for a special permit from Pittsfield s Evolution Site Services. In the end, the ZBA opted to continue the public hearing to a fourth meeting in hopes that Christopher Ciolfi can design a tower that is as short as possible and that allows for possible expansion if needed in the future.
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The First Congregational Church of Williamstown and the Berkshire County progressive citizens’ group the Four Freedoms Coalition are cosponsoring an interfaith panel discussion Thursday called “Christian Nationalism: How it Harms Us All.” WAMC spoke with attorney Sherwood Guernsey – who represents both the church and the coalition – about the panel, and why the chaotic events in Washington on January 6th inspired it.
GUERNSEY: It s very clear that on the January 6th, 2021 day of infamy, when a mob of insurrectionists sacked the Capitol, that those same insurrection is carried crosses, signs, flags and they were praying to Jesus, all symbols of Christianity, and followed by acts that were really destructive, obviously to our country, and actually to the symbol of our democracy. So that brought this issue of Christian Nationalism, as it was displayed to everyone in the country in the world- That is what brought this to a head. And that s why our church is trying to tak
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The first Democrat to declare a 2022 gubernatorial bid in Massachusetts is a Berkshire County native, prompting both enthusiasm and skepticism back home.
Former state Senator Ben Downing was raised in Pittsfield, and spent a decade on Beacon Hill before moving to the renewable energy sector in 2017. As the first Democrat to throw his hat in the ring for 2022, Berkshire County party activists say there is symbolism to Downing getting in first.
“Ben is young, exciting, energetic. He really understands the need for green energy and climate change. Most of all, he really understands about and wants to make sure that the people who have been left behind, it s a really wide group of people, that they need to be, their needs need to be attended to. They need to be shown that government can do well. And frankly, the race really is going to be about jobs, justice, and health care. And he s on top of all of them, said attorney and former state representative Sherwood Guernsey, a mem
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