Annual Ride of Silence returns to islands to recognize cyclists, more
By TIFFANY REPECKI / trepecki@breezenewspapers.com - | May 18, 2021
An annual event on Sanibel planned for this week will commemorate cyclists who have been injured or killed while riding a bike, as well as raise awareness about the importance of sharing the road.
The 12th event for the islands, the Ride of Silence will be held on May 19 at 7 p.m. starting out at Matzaluna The Italian Kitchen. Organized by the Sanibel Bicycle Club, Billy’s Bikes and Matzaluna, the route will take participants to the bike shop and then back and forth over the Sanibel Causeway.
Berkshire County's rail trail will continue into Pittsfield in the next year and then through South County in the future.
In mid-December, construction began on the extension of the Ashuwillticook Rail Trail that will connect Adams to Pittsfield.
This 1.56-mile extension will run south from the vicinity of mall Connector Road to Crane Avenue. The trail will be a 10 feet-wide, paved, shared-use path that is part of the trail system that currently runs nearly 13 miles through Lanesborough to Lime Street in Adams.
The trail extension currently under design will travel along Route 8 for several hundred feet and then around the boundaries of Unistress Construction yard. It will then go back up to the former Housatonic Railroad rail bed and at that point will stay on the old rail bed straight down to Crane Avenue.
Sedona Red Rock News
For the better part of five months the Sedona City Council conducted the vast majority of its meetings online. But beginning on Tuesday, Sept. 8, the council resumed meetings at City Hall. Photo by David Jolkovski/Larson Newspapers
For most, 2020 is a year they’d rather forget. But now that the new year is here, there may be hope for optimism, including among those on the Sedona City Council.
Each of the seven current members of council, as well as the two who chose not to seek re-election this year, were asked to give their personal opinions on 2020 and the struggles, and in some cases accomplishments, that came with it as a council and city.
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Though the COVID-19 pandemic dominated the airwaves most of the year, there were some other significant developments in 2020. WAMC’s Hudson Valley Bureau Chief Allison Dunne highlights a few of them in an abbreviated year in review.
2020 began with finding ways to help the Rockand County community of Monsey following a December 28, 2019 machete attack during a Hannukah celebration at a rabbi’s home. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo was in Rockland mid-January to announce funding for security infrastructure.
“I want everyone to know that we have learned from Monsey a painful lesson; we’ve learned from what’s going on; and we will respond and we will react and we will do everything in our power on every level to make sure this horrific act doesn’t happen again,” Cuomo says.