PITTSFIELD — The Human Services Advisory Committee will hold a public hearing at 7 p.m. tomorrow in City Hall to obtain input from city residents about human service programs in Pittsfield.
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The city is on a major upswing despite recent setbacks
PITTSFIELD — The doomsayers had practically given up Pittsfield for dead; North Street seemed on a terminal decline; much of the GE campus that sustained the city for so many decades was a Brownfields site, a decaying industrial wasteland; the economy seemed mired in a status quo, at best; crime was rampant; the drug marketplace was thriving; and the city's self-image
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PITTSFIELD —
"Leadership, for reaction and results, has a shelf-life and once you move beyond the shelf-life, you're no longer at your maximum effectiveness," declares Pittsfield Mayor James Ruberto, who's running for re-election to his third term this November but has no intention of seeking to become the city's "mayor for life.
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... is home to Pittsfield State Forest, a 65-acre preserve with hiking and cross-country skiing trails. It includes picnic areas, a popular camping site and a swimming beach at Berry Pond at the summit, at 2,300 feet the state's highest-elevation natural body of water. The nearby display of azaleas usually peaks in mid-June.
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Settled: 1751.
Incorporated: 1761, as a town; 1891, as a city.
Named for: William Pitt, British statesman.
Population: 45,793 (2000 U.S. Census); 40,527 (city census, 2007)
Area: 42.3 square miles.
Elevation: 1,039 feet (average).
Average annual snowfall: 76 inches (National Weather Service, Pittsfield Airport).
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