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Pittsfield 10s, 11s Stay Alive in Little League TournamentsiBerkshires.com Sports,
06:52PM / Saturday, July 12, 2025 | |
 Both Pittsfield Little League teams in action in sectional play on Saturday won to stay alive in their respective age groups. The 11-year-old All-Stars earned a 14-0 win at Westfield behind Hector Reyes-Colon’s complete-game effort on the mound. The Pittsfield 11s came out of the loser’s bracket to earn a date against Holden on Sunday in the finals. A win by Holden, and it takes the Section 1 title in the double-elimination tournament. If Pittsfield wins, it will be home on Monday night in a winner-take-all finale. It is the same scenario for the Pittsfield 10-year-old All-Stars, who won, 7-3, at Holden on Saturday to stay alive in their 0 Comments
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Force 14U Team Wins Three in Connecticut TournamentiBerkshires.com Sports,
05:29PM / Saturday, July 12, 2025 | |
 ENFIELD, Conn. – The Berkshire Force 14-and-under travel softball team went 3-0 in three tight games at the Enfield Invitational on Saturday. The Force edged the host Enfield Extreme Blue, 4-2, before beating the Connecticut Charge 13U squad, 7-2. Berkshire then beat the Senior Noles of Central Massachusetts, 7-5. Ava McMahon struck out seven in a complete-game effort to beat the Enfield Extreme. Amelia Polidoro led the offense, doubling and driving in a pair of runs. Against the Charge, Lillian MacDonald went 2-for-2 with a double and an RBI to lead a 10-hit attack for the Force. Lexi Spratling also doubled in the win, which saw Julia McComish strike out seven 0 Comments
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Pittsfield Native Opens Accounting Business By Breanna Steele, iBerkshires Staff
05:15PM / Saturday, July 12, 2025 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A city native is hoping to help fill a need for certified public accountants in the county. Kevin Garcia recently started his own accounting firm and is accepting new clients. "It's just, it's like the American dream. Ever since college, I've always had that drive to try to start my own [company]," he said. "I just had an itch to just do it. I knew one day I was going to do it. And so I think at one point I was just like, 'I'm going to do it.'" He said Berkshire County is short on CPAs and that fewer people are going into the accounting field. Another local CPA told him that he's having to 0 Comments
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2025 State Wildlife Action Plan for Massachusetts| 03:31PM / Saturday, July 12, 2025 | |
The Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife (MassWildlife) is announcing the Draft 2025 State Wildlife Action Plan (SWAP) for Massachusetts is ready for public review and comment. An approved State Wildlife Action Plan is required by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in order to be eligible for State Wildlife Grants, a key federal funding source for states to conserve plants and animals of greatest conservation need and the habitats on which they rely. Plans must be revised every ten years to evaluate the health of rare, declining, and vulnerable species and to identify opportunities to conserve these species and their habitats. Participation by conservation
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MassWildlife: Report fish kills| 11:27AM / Saturday, July 12, 2025 | |
Seeing dead or dying fish can cause distress and prompt concerns about pollution, but the vast majority of summer fish kills are natural events. As warm weather arrives, lakes and ponds heat up, and natural fish kills may occur. To ensure there is not a pollution problem, please report all fish kills by calling the Environmental Police Radio Room at 1 (800) 632-8075. Natural fish kills are most often caused by low oxygen levels, fish diseases, or spawning stress. Depletion of dissolved oxygen is also a common cause. Water holds less dissolved oxygen at higher temperatures, and in shallower or weedier ponds, levels can drop further as plants consume oxygen at night. Fish spawning, 0 Comments
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Bianchi-Barbarotta Foundation Bestows Annual HonorsCommunity submission,
09:55AM / Saturday, July 12, 2025 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. – The Bianchi-Barbarotta Foundation Friday recognized nine winners of the organization’s annual awards for contributions to sports in Berkshire County. The honorees were recognized at a dinner at the Polish Falcon Club. Paula and Dick Rivers received the foundation’s Living Legends Award. Peter White took home the Connie Bianchi Memorial Award of Merit. Ben Knute was honored as the Volunteer of the year. And recent Pittsfield High School grads Jack Reed and Ella Bassi are recipients of the 2025 Vera Barbarotta Sportsman Scholarships. For the first time this year, the foundation added male and female Athletes of the Year and Coach of 0 Comments
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Berkshire Family YMCA Annual Golf Tournament Fundraiser| 08:37AM / Saturday, July 12, 2025 | |
LENOX, Mass. — Berkshire Family YMCA announced its 25th Annual Golf Tournament Fundraiser, held in tandem with a Cornhole Tournament for families, taking place on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025, at Miraval Berkshires Resort and Spa in Lenox. The event is proudly supported by Silver Sponsor Hill-Engineers, Architects, Planners, Inc. and Bronze Sponsor Smith, Watson & Company, LLP. A shotgun start for golfers is scheduled for 12:00 PM. Sponsorship opportunities and team registrations are open through August 5. Proceeds from the event will directly support the Y's scholarship program, which distributes nearly $300,000 in financial aid annually to remove financial 0 Comments
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Pittsfield Little League 11-Year-Olds Survive and AdvanceCommunity submission,
08:18AM / Saturday, July 12, 2025 | |
SOUTHAMPTON, Mass. – The Pittsfield Little League 11-year-old All-Stars Friday advanced to the Section 1 Tournament loser’s bracket final with a 7-0 win at Southampton. The visitors jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first inning on an RBI double by Myles Morrison-Gould. In the third inning, Sean Roazak reached on an error, moved up on an infield single by Hector Reyes-Colon, and scored on an RBI groundout by Chase Albano. Reyes-Colon came around on a wild pitch to stake Pittsfield to a 3-0 lead. An inning later, Pittsfield added to its lead when Colton Smith reached on an error and scored on a double to left field by starting pitcher Carmelo Coco. Singles 0 Comments
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Ceremony Honors Sacrifice at Vietnam Traveling Memorial WallBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
07:35AM / Saturday, July 12, 2025 | |
Vietnam veteran Woody Vaspra speaks at Friday's opening of the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall. LENOX, Mass. — Like many of the people gathered on War Memorial Field on Friday morning, Cheshire's Lenwood "Woody" Vaspra could remember a time when remembrances of the Vietnam War were the last thing on Americans' minds. "When Vietnam veterans returned home from Vietnam, there were no tributes, recognition, speeches, parades, even handshakes for us," Vaspra told the crowd gathered to open a weekend-long remembrance with the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall. "It was a very obscure re-entry into society. Many of the veterans came back either 0 Comments
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Pittsfield Little League 10-Year-Olds Survive in SectionalBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires.com Sports
08:46PM / Friday, July 11, 2025 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. - Luca Bassi struck out four and allowed four hits in four innings Friday to lead the Pittsfield Little League 10-year-old All-Stars to an 11-1 win over Longmeadow in an elimination game in the Section 1 Tournament at Deming Park. Bassi helped his cause by going 2-for-2 with a double and a pair of RBIs as Pittsfield stayed alive to advance to Saturday’s game at Holden, a 3-2 loser against Westfield on Friday night. Bassi left a runner on third base in three of four innings in Friday’s complete-game effort. He left the bases loaded in the top of the third and had runners on second and third with one out trying to preserve a 10-run lead in the 0 Comments
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HVA Selects Next Executive Director | 03:53PM / Friday, July 11, 2025 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — After conducting a national search, the Board of Directors of The Housatonic Valley Association (HVA) announces that Timothy B. Abbott will be HVA's new Executive Director. He succeeds Lynn Werner, who retired on July 1, 2025, after 42 years with the organization and 30 years as its Executive Director. Abbott has 27 years of conservation leadership experience in western Connecticut and eastern New York with national and regional conservation nonprofits, including 17 years at HVA, where he most recently served as Conservation Director. In making the announcement, James H. Maloney, Search Committee Chair and President of the Board of 0 Comments
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@theMarket: 'Valuations Don't Matter'By Bill Schmick,
02:49PM / Friday, July 11, 2025 | |
Over the last few weeks, the above statement has been appearing on financial channels, in newsletters, and on many trading desks. That runs counter to everything taught in business schools and the financial world at large. Has the stock market truly become a trillion-dollar casino, or is there something else going on? As readers are aware, the Trump administration has pushed back the implementation date of reciprocal tariffs until Aug. 1. In the meantime, the White House is sending a flurry of form letters to various countries, listing what will happen if they do not make a deal with the U.S. before that date. A new risk on the tariff front is that Donald Trump showed his 0 Comments
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