The city of Pittsfield closed access to the cell tower construction site at the top of Alma Street after neighbors complained of heavy truck traffic.
Jocelyn Coco Gilardi, left, and her sister, Amelia, pose at the top of Alma Street near the project site with signs they created. Their mother, Courtney Gilardi, has led neighborhood opposition.
A pad and some electrical equipment is already in place for the cell tower, to be built as part of the Verizon Wireless network.
Dennis Desnoyers opposes the cell tower project and is upset the city of Pittsfield approved it. "Without any thought of maybe there's harm coming to us, and our property values," he said.
PITTSFIELD — From their side of the mountain, up on Alma, Fairhaven and Ora streets, the commercial hubbub to the west on Route 7 seems far off.
But, as neighbors discovered this spring, what "goes around" over there — at 877 South St., for instance — can come around.
And
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