Berkshire Nursing Families Celebrate World Breastfeeding Week at Whitney's Farm

Print Story | Email Story
CHESHIRE, Mass — Berkshire Nursing Families (BNF) invites the community to join a lively celebration of World Breastfeeding Week on Saturday, Aug. 2, 2025, from 10 AM to 1 PM at Whitney's Farm.
 
Highlights include interactive science fun (think bubbles!), a petting zoo, and a play yard for little ones. Community partner Hilltown Village will be on hand with a collection of free baby clothes to give away from the Village Closet and the Berkshire Diaper Project will have free diapers.
 
BNF has provided free, feeding and parenting support throughout Berkshire County. This includes in-home lactation consultations, a 24/7 support line, peer support groups, playgroups, and childbirth and breastfeeding classes.
 
Admission is free.
Share
If you would like to contribute information on this article, contact us at info@iberkshires.com.

Dalton Eyes New Software to Streamline Payroll

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
DALTON, Mass. — Since taking on the role of town manager, Eric Anderson has been finding ways to streamline operations to save on labor hours — now he is eyeing improving workforce management. 
 
"By my rough math, we're chewing up some 1,500 hours a year doing payroll, and there's just no reason for that. The way we're doing it now is incredibly inefficient," he told the Select Board last week. 
 
The board approved Anderson's recommendation to undergo contract negotiations with TimeClock Plus, a scheduling software designed to simplify employee time tracking and workforce management.
 
The town has 62 paid employees who currently submit their timesheets on paper, which are then manually reviewed by department heads, who calculate hours, vacation time, and prepare cover sheets before forwarding them to the treasurer or town manager to be approved. 
 
The assistant treasurer then spends several days each week processing the town's payroll, Anderson said. 
 
As part of his efforts to streamline this process, Anderson looked at multiple different services narrowing it down to TimeClock Plus, or TCP, because of its ease of integration with the town's regular financial software and that it's commonly used by municipalities. 
 
"Some of the payroll programs are designed to go directly to payroll companies, but since we do our payroll in house, this cuts all the manual correlation, and it filters directly into our existing [Enterprise Resource Planning] financial software," he said. 
 
View Full Story

More Cheshire Stories

Sports
image description

Canes Reign in Division 5 Boys Basketball

Sports
Sports
image description

Hoosac Valley Boys Upset Drury in State Quarter-Finals

Sports
Sports
image description

Drury Comes Back on Hoosac Valley to Advance to State Semi-Finals

Sports
Sports
image description

Pittsfield Girls Get Back to Final Four

Sports
Sports
image description

Throwback Friday: Tonight's Hoosac-Drury Game Has Echoes of 2013

Sports
Sports
image description

Lee Girls Go 1-2-3 at Individual State Championships

Sports
Latest Stories
Previous Next

What's Trending?