Many of Berkshire County’s most community-minded residents gathered at Tanglewood on Thursday, Sept. 15 as 1Berkshire honored the illustrious music venue and its summertime residents, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, for “Putting the Berkshires on the Map.” As acknowledged by the evening’s speakers – 1Berkshire’s Jonathan Butler and Laurie Klefos, Mass. State Senator Ben Downing, and award presenter Laurie Tierney of Hotel on North – the 76-year-old Tanglewood had an enormously successful 2016 season, welcoming more than 353,000 visitors from around the world. Area leaders presented awards to the winners of the seven Trendsetter Awards, as well. In addition to the winners pictured below, the City of North Adams won for best “Comprehensive Marketing Campaign,” Unistress received the prize for “Growing/Advancing the Berkshire Economy” and “Entrepreneur/Visionary of the Year” went to Zogics founder Paul R. LeBlanc. [Shown above: Mark Volpe, managing director of the BSO and Tanglewood, with Kim Notelmy, Larry Oberwager and Jason Lyon, all of the BSO.] Read more about 1Berkshire celebrating the Berkshires >>
