Flooding, storms and dam failures are the biggest environmental threats facing North Adams, and climate change is exacerbating those risks.
The city outlined the dangers in a draft Hazard Mitigation and Climate Adaptation Plan published Monday. Under federal law, the city must prepare the plan to be eligible for mitigation project grants.
The report also details potential threats from droughts, tornadoes, earthquakes, wildfires, landslides, insect-borne illnesses, invasive species and cyberattacks.
Former City Administrator Michael Canales led the committee that was formed last year to create the report. The committee included representatives from North Adams public safety agencies, various city departments and the public schools system. The Berkshire Regional Planning Commission worked with the city to gather data and develop the plan.
PITTSFIELD â Mill Town Capital, the new owner of Bousquet Mountain ski area, is expanding its recreational holdings with the purchase of two nearby properties, which also will be placed under the Bousquet umbrella.
The company Friday announced the acquisition of the former Lakeside Christian Camp at Richmond Pond in Pittsfield, according to a news release. It also has an agreement to purchase the Berkshire West Athletic Club on Dan Fox Drive, just across from Bousquet Mountain. That transaction is scheduled to close by the end of the year.
The three properties are in proximity to one another and offer a diversity of year-round features and amenities that include outdoor recreation, indoor athletics training, watersports and lodging, the release stated.
Local investment group Mill Town Capital is expanding Bousquet to two additional locations, creating a trifecta of outdoor and indoor recreation properties within five minutes of the ski area. Mill Town on Friday announced it is acquiring Berkshire West Athletic Club across from Bousquet and the former Lakeside Christian Camp on Richmond Pond. Berkshire West will be renamed Bousquet Sport and Lakeside Christian Camp will be known as The Camp by Bousquet. It anticipates closing on both properties by the end of the year. These three properties will offer diverse, year-round amenities that include outdoor recreation, indoor athletics training, water sports, and lodging under the Bousquet brand.
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BENNINGTON â The concept of a peanut-shaped roundabout on Route 67A near the Bennington College entrance was praised by town officials Monday after they received an update from project planners.
âThis is a great proposal,â said Select Board Chairman Donald Campbell, adding that he liked the description from project designers of a âpeanut,â rather than his first thought of a one-cell organism.
The board was shown the $2.6 million state projectâs conceptual design by VTrans project manager Michael LaCroix, Dennis Vertiyev, of the design firm, Green International Affiliates, and others involved in the multi-year initiative to improve the five-way intersection.
It bothers me in this day and age, why we don t have a larger resource of avenues for individuals. I don t know if that comes from lack of funding from the Commonwealth or if it comes from lack of funding from the federal government, Ward 7 City Councilor Anthony Maffuccio said at Thursday s meeting. We have a serious problem, and people just don t want to talk about it and they think it is just going to go away miraculously one day. Responding to Ward 1 Councilor Helen Moon s petition that requested a presentation on opioid use, Jennifer Kimball, coordinator of Berkshire Opioid Abuse Prevention Collaborative, informed the City Council subcommittee about the city s current issues with OUD.