Green Dalton News Today

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Board of Health has concluded its seven-month process of updating the city's tobacco ordinance. "We should be very happy about that," Chair Bobbie...

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The City Council went through 14 petitions in just over an hour on Tuesday. These included retiree cost-of-living adjustments from 3 percent to a maximum of 5...

DALTON, Mass. — Town Manager Tom Hutcheson informed the Green Dalton Committee last Wednesday that Hill Engineering confused the Town Hall/Library project with another project that had...

Dalton — If top managers in Dalton had their way, a volunteer committee that they say operates counter to the town’s interests already would be history. It’s not easy being green, Kermit the Frog said. In these managers’ view, it’s not easy being with the Green Dalton Committee. But, a petition calling for the group’s dissolution never reached a vote when aired at a recent Select Board meeting. Instead, the board’s chairman, Robert W. Bishop Jr., got colleague...