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Dozens Compete in Fall Foliage 5K

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. – Joshua Miller Sunday won the annual Fall Foliage 5K, covering the course in just more than 21 minutes.
 
Miller hit the finish line in 21:05, setting a mile pace of 6:47, to win in a field of 35 finishers.
 
Second place went to North Adams’ Liv Dalton, who was the fastest female finisher with a time of 22:41.
 
Twenty men and 15 women competed in the race, part of the city’s Fall Foliage Festival. The race finished on Main Street just prior to the 69th Fall Foliage Parade.
 
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Q&A with State Representative Challenger Andrew Fitch

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — On Sept. 1, voters in the First Berkshire District will decide whether they want to send a new representative to Beacon Hill in Boston.
 
Andrew Fitch, currently a city councilor in the district's largest municipality — and the commonwealth's smallest city — is challenging former North Adams Mayor John Barrett III, who won the First Berkshire seat in a 2017 special election, in the Democratic Party primary.
 
There is no Republican on the primary ballot for the First Berkshire seat so the primary will effectively be the election for the seat. 
 
The two candidates met for their only debate on Aug. 13 at Williams College. iBerkshires.com reached out to both candidates to follow up on some of the points raised in the debate and get their thoughts on some other issues facing the district.
 
Below are excerpts from a conversation with challenger Andrew Fitch:
 
Question: From the very beginning, you talked about the campaign as a listening experience, and this week you're continuing that with the bike tour …
 
Andrew Fitch: Knocking on doors that have never been knocked on before. … I was riding through, I believe it was Hinsdale coming into Windsor, and they started to yell at me, 'No!' And then the guy was like, 'Wait a second. That's Andrew Fitch.' They actually knew who I was, and they were actually wanting to chat with me.
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