Faucets in Berkshire Countyâs smallest water district sometimes just stop flowing.
The volunteers who run the Briggsville Water District in Clarksburg know what s wrong â but canât yet afford the full fix, despite mandates from the state DEP.
The district gets scant outside help, but plenty of reminders from the state about needed repairs.
Carl McKinney, a longtime district volunteer, puts it this way: âPeople want government to fix things? . We are the government.â
CLARKSBURG â Every week through the winter, water stopped coming out of the faucets at John Barnesâ house.
Each time, he grabbed two buckets and trudged to the side of a nearby hill, where water spilled from overflow pipes located just below the spring and storage tanks that supply the Briggsville Water District.
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The yellow line on this map marks the prospective route that will be studied by the state Department of Transportation. PROVIDED BY MAINE RAIL GROUP
Three words that popped onto computer screens Tuesday seemed to capture the terrain ahead, as dozens of civic leaders gathered online to bless an effort to restore passenger rail service across the top of the state.
âOpportunities and Constraints.â
Lots of both, actually.
The phrase appeared on a slide early on, as Makaela Niles of the state Department of Transportation described her teamâs plan, over the next year-and-a-half, to gauge the feasibility of enabling people to travel by rail between North Adams and Boston. Like an earlier study of east-west passenger rail travel across the stateâs midsection, including Pittsfield, this venture was ordered up by the Legislature.
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On Monday evening,
The Town of Great Barrington will present their Select Board Regular Meeting at Town Hall, located at 334 Main Street. Even though the COVID-19 pandemic is winding down, as a safety precaution, participants can follow the latest developments on-line. For more information, log on to the town s web site by going here.
You can participate in this evening s session via Zoom by accessing this link
WEBINAR ID: 884 1009 9986 passcode: 6611333
DIAL-IN (AUDIO ONLY) 1-929-205-6099
A CALL TO ORDER
will take place approximately 6 pm followed by an approval of minutes followed by Select Board announcements and statements.
A approval of minutes will also be on the agenda looking back to March 8th, April 12th, May 10th, May 12th and May 24th 2021.