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Berkshire County school districts are planning a lifting of their respective masking mandates at some point, but there is no real consensus among them as to when the best time is to carry out the move.

School kids are going to have to continue wearing facemasks for a little longer, at least.

At the start of the 2021 school year, a mask mandate was put in place by the Department of Education until November 1 and that date is just around the corner.

State Education Commissioner Jeffrey Riley has extended the Massachusetts public schools indoor mask mandate for another month.

As the county negotiates the Delta Variant of COVID-19, we are beginning to see more and more institutions requiring face coverings, especially when indoors. The latest mandate comes from the town of Great Barrington, today.   The town of Great Barrington is now requiring employees, visitors, vendors, and others to wear face masks in town buildings and in town-owned vehicles, effective immediately

Remember when we all first started wearing masks? Even though everyone was starting to do it as a rule, I still felt sort of strange wearing one. I had this odd feeling that people were looking at me because I was wearing one. Obviously, wearing a mask eventually became the norm. Now that the ...