Senator Mark Announces July Staff Hours

10:05AM / Tuesday, July 01, 2025Print Story | Email Story

BOSTON — State Senator Paul W. Mark announced that his staff will host office hours at six locations in Berkshire County in July.

Residents of any of the 57 municipalities in the Senator's Berkshire, Hampden, Franklin, and Hampshire District are encouraged to share ideas on current or potential state legislation, or to ask for assistance with issues involving any state agency.

Appointments are not required.

Adams: Tuesday, July 15 , from 9 a.m. to noon. Town Hall, 8 Park St., Adams.

Dalton: Monday, July 7 from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.. Senior Center, 40 Field St., Dalton.

Great Barrington: Monday, July 7 and Monday, July 21, from 9 a.m. to noon. Town Hall, 334 Main St., Great Barrington.

Lenox: Monday, July 21 , from 1:00pm-3:00pm. Lenox Town Hall, 6 Walker St., Lenox.

North Adams: Tuesday, July 15, from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. MCLA Alumni Relations Building, 228 E. Main St., North Adams.

Pittsfield: Thursday, July 10, and Thursday, July 24, from 9 a.m. to noon. District Office. 773 Tyler St., Pittsfield.

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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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