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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text](Photo: From left, Berkshire Gas' Chris Farrell, Adams Town Administrator Jay Green, Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito and sculptor Brian Hanlon) By Chris Farrell, Berkshire Gas Manager of Communications and Government Relations The town of Adams, MA in the Berkshire Gas service territory marked a moment in history last week with the unveiling of a statue honoring suffragette Susan B. Anthony, commissioned in recognition of the 100th +1 Anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave women the right to

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Avangrid Foundation has awarded a grant to The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art to fund the restoration of Enoch Smith Woods’s Nathan Hale (1889), the bronze figure displayed on the Main Street lawn of the museum, located in Hartford, CT. The Foundation’s award of $50,000 will fund the conservation of the slightly-larger-than-life sculpture of the Revolutionary War martyr, perhaps the first such restoration work since its installation in front of the museum in 1894. The grant will also realize a plan to illuminate the