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Mount Washington Moves To Address Ailing Dirt Road System

A wooded mountain rises out of a line of trees below a blue sky streaked with white clouds
Josh Landes
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WAMC
Mount Washington, Massachusetts

Monday night, the smallest community in Berkshire County gathered for a special town meeting. Mount Washington, Massachusetts calls itself the Town Among The Clouds from its vantage point on the slopes of the geographic point it draws its name from in the southwestern corner of the Commonwealth. Gail Garrett has represented its 160-odd residents on the town selectboard for almost a decade. On Tuesday, she told WAMC that the town came together to vote on a $12,500 plan to analyze Mount Washington’s increasingly muddy dirt roads, which she says are in dire need of improvement.

Josh Landes has been WAMC's Berkshire Bureau Chief since February 2018, following stints at WBGO Newark and WFMU East Orange. A passionate advocate for Western Massachusetts, Landes was raised in Pittsfield and attended Hampshire College in Amherst, receiving his bachelor's in Ethnomusicology and Radio Production. His free time is spent with his cat Harry, experimental electronic music, and exploring the woods.
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