Watch for Runners Near BCC on Thanksgiving Morning

Community submission08:13AM / Wednesday, November 27, 2024Print Story | Email Story

PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- The ninth annual MountainOne Thankful 5K will be held on Thursday, Nov. 28, at 9 a.m. at Berkshire Community College.

The event will have runners and walkers completing a 5-kilometer course that will travel along West Street, thru the Berkshire Community College property out along West Street to Meadowridge and along the Woodland Drive cul-de-sac before returning to West Street and finishing in the Patterson Fieldhouse Parking Lot.

Residents are asked to use caution and reduced speeds when traveling along these roads between the hours of 8 and 10 a.m. on Thursday. Pittsfield Police will be along the course to ensure safe passage of all the participants.

The Berkshire Running Foundation hosts the annual event in which proceeds are donated to the South Community Food Pantry. The organizers also encourage participants to donate nonperishable food items that will also be brought to the pantry to help ease the challenges of food insecurity in our community.

In person registration and bib pick up will be Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Berkshire Running Center, 5 Cheshire Roard in the Allendale Underground, Pittsfield.

“We are thrilled to have a record setting number of registered participants for this year’s event," Berkshire Running Foundation Executive Director Siobbean Lemme said. "With over 600 registered walkers and runners this will be the largest Thanksgiving run in the Berkshires history.”

“This is becoming a family tradition and holiday favorite for our community to give back to those of our neighbors in need, on a day when many of us have more than enough.”

Volunteers are still welcomed for the event, you can contact Lemme directly at director@berkshirerun.org.

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Hinsdale Considers Switching Dispatch Centers Amid Response Time Concerns

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
05:12AM / Monday, August 24, 2026

HINSDALE, Mass. — The town has experienced longer emergency response times since the Dalton Police Department suspended its mutual aid agreement with Hinsdale. Now, Hinsdale is considering suspending its use of Dalton's Communication Center.

During the Hinsdale Select Board meeting on Aug. 12, board member Margaret Gregory raised concerns about the department's response times, recounting an incident the previous Sunday when she called police at about 9:51 p.m. but did not see a state trooper arrive until approximately 10:45 p.m.

"We're here to protect the town and make sure we're getting the aid that we need. That did not happen," she said in a follow-up with the media.

Now word has gotten to Dalton that Hinsdale's department has requested to withdraw from the Dalton Communication Center and use the Berkshire Regional Emergency Communications Center instead.

Dalton Town Manager Eric Anderson informed Dalton's Select Board that he heard indirectly from the state's communications center of Hinsdale's request and that there will be a meeting with the E911 system and all parties sometime later in September.

In order for Hinsdale to switch to the state call center, the town would have to obtain funding to ensure the town's equipment works with the state's.

During Hinsdale's August meeting, Gregory told Peru Police Chief Bruce Cullett that she is concerned with how Dalton's dispatch is relaying information to the state, citing that calls from multiple people about shots fired shouldn't be an hour wait.

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