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MCLA Hands Out Book Award Scholarships| 01:40PM / Monday, July 24, 2017 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts has announced the recipients of its Book Award scholarships, which recently were granted to students who will begin their senior years this fall at one of Berkshire County's public high schools. One student from each of the high schools received this award, which honors outstanding high school juniors who have made a positive difference in the community.
"The MCLA Book Award is presented to an outstanding high school junior who exemplifies academic achievement, displays leadership qualities, and has a strong commitment to the Berkshire County community," said Joshua Mendel, director of recruitment and outreach
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Berkshires Beat: Tanglewood, Mass Audubon Team Up for Celebration of Birds and Music| 01:09PM / Monday, July 24, 2017 | |
 For the birds: Tanglewood will launch its first-ever collaboration with Mass Audubon in a program titled "Tanglewood Takes Flight: A Celebration of Birds and Music with Mass Audubon" running from Thursday, July 27, to Sunday, July 30, creating a new multi-faceted and immersive program for concert-goers that explores the intimate relationship between birdsong and music. The series, which pairs guided bird walks with performances of birdsong, will be highlighted by performances by world-renowned pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, lectures and bird walks by Mass Audubon Ornithologist Wayne Peterson, and performances by Fellows of the Tanglewood Music Center, the Boston Symphony
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Berkshire Force 10U Wraps Season with Tourney WinCommunity submission,
10:18AM / Monday, July 24, 2017 | |
 DALTON, Mass. -- The 10-and-under Berkshire Force softball team went 4-0 this weekend to win the Dalton Invitational Softball Tournament. In its season finale, the Force once again turned in a total team effort with great pitching, flawless defense, and strong at-bats. In pool play it defeated Hoosick Falls, 12-2, followed by a nine-inning battle with Guilderland that the Force won, 5-3. In tournament play they beat Hoosick Falls, 15-0, in the semi finals. In the finals, the Force battled Guilderland again, taking a 5-4 lead into the bottom of the sixth before blowing it open with a seven-run inning and eventually taking the championship, 12-5. For the season, the Force 0 Comments
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Lanesborough School Chair 'Re-Energized' By Task Force VoteBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
03:57AM / Monday, July 24, 2017 | |
 LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — School Committee Chairwoman Regina DiLego participated in 32 meetings of the Berkshire County Educational Task Force over the past two years. And it was exhausting. But as the group voted last Saturday to recommend a single school district for all of Berkshire County, she's become "re-energized." "I'm really excited about it all. I think we can do something for our kids," DiLego said. DiLego said she was somewhat surprised by the vote. She was expecting the group to come to the conclusion of recommending three separate districts. But, the more discussion the group had and the more issues arose with that, DiLego 3 Comments
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Potash Powers Post 68 Juniors to Win at State TourneyiBerkshires.com Sports,
09:21PM / Sunday, July 23, 2017 | |
 FRANKLIN, Mass. -- Hunter Potash threw three innings of shutout ball and hit a grand slam Sunday to lead the American Legion Post 68 Juniors to an 11-8 win over Rockland at the State championship. The win kept Post 68 alive in the losers bracket of the eight-team tourney. After dropping a 4-2 loss to Methuen on Saturday, Post 68 bounced back to stay alive and knock Rockland out of the championship. Potash started on the mound and left with a 10-0 lead. He combined with four other pitchers on the win: Joe Cracolici, Ryan Guadette, Joe Traversa and Carter Matthews. Matthews earned the save by coming in to get the final out with the bases loaded in a three-run game 0 Comments
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Shire City Sessions Returns to Pittsfield on MondayBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
06:04AM / Sunday, July 23, 2017 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Shire City Sessions are back. The weekly concert series takes place over the next three Mondays at the First Street Common. The concerts bring original live music to the Berkshires, and fills up what tends to be an uneventful night of the week. "There is a little bit of a hole in the cultural scene when it comes to original music," said Alan Bauman, who founded the concert series in 2015 to bring in national and regional music talent to tackle that issue. It began in the parking lot of the Shire City Sanctuary the first year. Last year, it moved to the Common and worked in tandem with the Shakespeare in the Park, using the same 0 Comments
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Zion Lutheran Church Opens 1892 Time CapsuleBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
01:21PM / Saturday, July 22, 2017 | |
The box was found in the northwest corner of the building. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — When the Zion Lutheran Church was built on First Street in 1892, the congregation placed a time capsule in the cornerstone. And it sat there for 125 years. The Rev. Timothy Weisman knew there was one somewhere in the building's structure, but wasn't sure where. Seven months ago, the church embarked on a $1.2 million renovation and the mason dug around the northwest corner of the building and found it. The capsule was placed there on July 13, 1892. "After a renovation of about seven months, coinciding with the 125th anniversary of the building, we decided to 1 Comment
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Unpaid Bills Are Starting to Pile Up For Berkshire MallBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
05:06AM / Saturday, July 22, 2017 | |
 LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — The Berkshire Mall bills are piling up. The mall owner, Kohan Retail Investment Group, under Berkshire Mail Realty Holdings, owes close to a half million in taxes to the town and to the Baker Hill Road District — $230,000 for the road district and $209,000 to the town. "The Baker Hill Road District is moving aggressively to communicate with the mall about the failure to pay taxes," Town Manager Paul Sieloff recently told the Finance Committee. "They have not paid the road district in many months." Also in recent months, the court awarded another quarter-million dollars to companies that filed lawsuits against 7 Comments
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Leominster Ends Pittsfield Nationals' Run in Little League TourneyBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires.com Sports
08:12PM / Friday, July 21, 2017 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- Twenty-four hours after falling victim to a dramatic sixth-inning comeback, the Pittsfield National Little League All-Stars Friday found themselves needing to do the same thing. But after putting two men on base with two out and a four-run lead, Leominster was able to get the final out on a swinging strike and secure a 6-2 win that ended the Nats’ run in the Major League sectional tournament. “I said to them, ‘We have the recipe for coming back because we just had it done to us,’ “ Pittsfield NL coach Darren Lee said. “But we weren’t able to execute.” Cal Lewis and Johnny Crawford each singled around a 0 Comments
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'The Big Sick': Has a Healthy OutlookBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires film critic
03:23PM / Friday, July 21, 2017 | |
 Director Michael Showalter's "The Big Sick," based on Pakistani-born comedian/actor Kumail Nanjiani's real-life story, is often hilarious proof that in jest there is truth. While gleefully verifying that in dedicated hands the classical romantic comedy remains a viable entertainment, this convivial foray into whether or not love conquers all also asserts a humanistic message that is of late egregiously absent from our national consciousness. Nanjiani's tale sagely solicits art to fill this vacuum. On the surface it plays rather simply. Kumail, who Ubers for a living when he's not trying to "kill" the audience at a Chicago comedy club, one night 0 Comments
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MassDOT Secretary Praises Massive Road Reconstruction in DaltonBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
02:01PM / Friday, July 21, 2017 | |
Pollack praised the adoption of a Complete Streets design in the project. The secretary says she wants road projects to include bicycle lanes and renovated sidewalks to accommodate all modes of transportation. DALTON, Mass. — MassDOT Secretary Stephanie Pollack says the massive $10.5 million reconstruction of East Housatonic Street is a perfect example of what the state wants to see. The project has been in the works for years and finally began construction in March 2016. It is on pace to be completed in October, with punch list items being completed in the spring. It entails everything the state Department of Transportation would like to see in a road 3 Comments
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Pittsfield Cooperative Bank Names Chief Information Officer| 01:58PM / Friday, July 21, 2017 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Pittsfield Cooperative Bank has announced Adrienne DeBlieux Speed as senior vice president and chief information officer of the bank.
DeBlieux Speed has 25 years of experience most recently serving as VP Information Technology.
"Technology has never been a more integral element of success in the financial industry than it is today and it will only become more so over time," said J. Jay Anderson, president and CEO of the Pittsfield Cooperative Bank. "Whether utilizing technology to enhance the customer experience or to defend our customers privacy in an age of cyber-criminality. With Adrienne's experience and expertise she will help
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