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DEERFIELD VALLEY — A marketing plan will continue to be deployed to bring more visitors to Dover and Wilmington.

The Southern Berkshire Volunteer Ambulance Squad is asking communities it serves to provide a total of $250,000 through their federal COVID-19 relief grants to help it through difficult times.

Town leaders and residents have plenty of input to digest after release of a report this week, the third Bennington Citizen Survey since 2016.

The Mason Select Board is contemplating stricter enforcement for the area surrounding the Mason Quarry, after the area was swarmed with visitors over the summer.Selectman Charlie Moser said Wednesday that the quarry, which is owned by the town and...

Read Article JAY — The Select Board will spend $5,000 as part of a joint effort with Livermore and Livermore Falls to determine the value of four hydroelectric facilities owned by Eagle Creek Renewable Energy. Eagle Creek Renewable Energy’s Riley hydroelectric facility in Jay is seen in 2017. Sun Journal file photo Two of the facilities are in Jay, while the other two are located in Livermore and Livermore Falls. Both of the latter towns’ Select Boards will also consider next week spen...

Bueller? As enrollment declines in the Old Rochester Regional School District, Tri-Town officials at a July 13 joint meeting of Marion and Mattapoisett’s Select Boards and Rochester’s Board of Selectmen called for an enrollment study on the OR high school and junior high. Marion Select Board member John Waterman said that a study could help the towns and district “to manage or better control” the cost of schooling long-term. Marion Town Administrator Jay McGrail noted that he and Superi...

Hilltown police forces in transition "> Worthington Police Chief Robert Reinke talks about the department. He is the town’s first full-time chief. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS "> Worthington Police Chief Robert Reinke talks about the department and being chief in a small town, which voted to make his position full time. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS "> Worthington Police Chief Robert Reinke talks about the department and being chief in a small town. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS "> Worthington Police Chief...

“Pretty much, Zoom is out”: Most area towns discontinuing virtual meeting participation "> Published: 7/1/2021 5:13:11 PM Virtual meetings became ubiquitous for town boards and committees over the past year. For some towns, the expiration of the state emergency order heralded a return to the pre-pandemic status quo, while other towns don’t want to give up the virtual format – and the wider access it provides. The State stopped allowing exclusively virtual municipal meetings on June 11....

Two hilltowns explore combining police depts. FILE PHOTO FILE PHOTO Published: 6/28/2021 7:37:59 PM CHESTERFIELD — The town is exploring regionalizing its police force with Goshen, with the Select Boards of both communities having discussed this possibility earlier this month. “I don’t know what will come from it,” said Chesterfield Select Board Chairman Roger Fuller. “It’s definitely worth a conversation, for sure.” Fuller said the Goshen and Chesterfield select boards met over Z...

Voters in Camden, Rockport and Thomaston have the opportunity on June 8 to get the ball rolling for high speed broadband service for their towns, with universal access and fiber to the premises for all homes and businesses, and local legislators are...