Berkshire Athenaeum Short Story Contest

07:46AM / Wednesday, June 04, 2025Print Story | Email Story

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield's Public Library, and the Friends of the Berkshire Athenaeum are thrilled to announce the 47th Annual Short Story Writing Contest for Children and the 28th Annual Short Story Writing Contest for Young Adults.

This annual event, fostering imagination and literary talent, officially opened on Sunday, June 1, 2025, and will close promptly at 4:00 PM on Friday, August 1, 2025.

"We are incredibly excited to launch another year of our Short Story Writing Contest," said Youth Services Supervisor, Sara Russell-Scholl. "This contest provides a wonderful platform for young writers in our community to explore their creativity, develop their narrative skills, and share their unique voices. We can't wait to read the inspiring stories that emerge!"

The Library accepts submissions in multiple convenient ways: in person at the Library, via mail (Berkshire Athenaeum, ATTN: Short Story Contest, One Wendell Ave., Pittsfield, MA 01201) or by email. Children's entries can be emailed to childrens@pittsfieldlibrary.org and Young Adult entries to youngadult@pittsfieldlibrary.org.

For more information, including official contest rules and guidelines, visit www.pittsfieldlibrary.org, email childrens@pittsfieldlibrary.org with "Short Story Contest" in the subject line, or call the Children's Library at (413) 499-9480, option 5.

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Dalton Considers Updating its Municipal Code

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
01:21PM / Thursday, August 27, 2026

DALTON, Mass. — The town is considering updating its original 18-year municipal code to 2026 standards.

During a recent Select Board meeting, General Code New England account manager Zach Dumont outlined the 18- to-24 month process.

General Code New England is a division of the International Code Council, which writes all the statewide building codes across the United States. For the last 18 years, the organization has been the codifier for municipalities.

"We work with communities to build, maintain, and update your local municipal code. That is your collection of bylaws, ordinances, regulations, and any other legislation you've ever adopted," Dumont said.

Once the project is complete, the town would have a fully updated set of books and an improved eCode360 site, he said.

"The way the process would work is we would put together a scope of work, a timeline, a price point, and everything that we would want to touch or do as a part of the code project," Dumont said.

When a municipal code is built, it has a general lifespan of about 15 to 20 years, and although that is a long time, it goes by very quickly, he said.

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