By Laura Brennan for Berkshire Trade & Commerce July 2021
We’ve all grown weary of quite a few phrases over the last year or so – social distancing, PPE, and Zoom etiquette, just to name a few – but a pandemic platitude that will be particularly good to see fade away is “pivot.”
Study shows evidence of population growth in the Berkshires
Berkshire County has been losing population since 1970, but new data compiled by the U.S. Postal Service suggests that trend is slowing and might even be in the early stages of reverse.
Planning group to apply federal money to Berkshires’ pandemic-recovery efforts
The Berkshire Regional Planning Commission has received $842,522 in federal CARES Act money to develop a program to provide technical assistance to area businesses and municipalities recovering from the economic disruptions caused by the coronavirus pandemic and better prepare them for similar events.
Executive Spotlight: Tom Matuszko
Get to know BRPC executive director Tom Matuszko in the Berkshire Eagle’s first executive spotlight of 2021:
PITTSFIELD — Thomas Matuszko grew up on his family farm in Hadley, then briefly pursued farming as a profession. Working the land didn’t excite him, but preserving farmland from developers certainly did.