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Golden Gib Kittredge for Berkshire Bruins ProgramBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires.com Sports
09:40PM / Sunday, January 19, 2020 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- You’re never too young to be a little nostalgic. After helping the Berkshire Bruins Bantam team earn a 4-0 win in the championship game of the 49th annual Gib Kittredge Tournament on Sunday, Jackson Molleur put the victory into perspective. “It’s great,” he said. “I mean, this is my last year, my last Kittredge Tournament. I’ve played here since I was a mite. So it means a lot win the last one for us. “I think we were sluggish at the beginning, but once we got going, I think we’ve been good all weekend. Hopefully, we’ll be able to carry it into our future tournaments.” Three 0 Comments
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Veteran Spotlight: Marine Cpl. Keil Did Tour in AfghanistanBy Wayne Soares, Special to iBerkshires
04:24PM / Sunday, January 19, 2020 | |
Keil served in the Marines from 2006 to 2010, including in Helmand Province in Afghanistan. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — This week's featured veteran is a benchmark to his peers and to the younger generation because of his examples of class, integrity and humility. Mitchell Keil served his country from 2006 to 2010 in the Marine Corps. A graduate of Wahconah Regional High School in Dalton, he was sent to basic training at the famed Parris Island in South Carolina. "After I graduated, I had two months before I went in. I had a chance to see my family and friends which was great. My parents signed the papers for my induction. If they didn't, I was 2 Comments
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Pittsfield Public Works Subcommittee Recommend Recycling Contract By Jack Guerino, iBerkshires Staff
07:32AM / Sunday, January 19, 2020 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Public Works Subcommittee will recommend a new recycling contract to the full City Council. City Engineer and interim Commissioner of Public Services and Utilities Ricardo Morales presented to the subcommittee on Thursday some changes in the new contract with the state Department of Environmental Protection and WM Recycle America who will operate Springfield Materials Recycling Facility (MRF). "We are getting more out of recycling and we are saving taxpayers money," Chairman Peter White said. "More than if it could be thrown away, which state law would not allow anyway." The proposed five-year dual stream 1 Comment
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@theMarket: Fed Stimulus Continues to Pump the MarketsBy Bill Schmick,
04:59PM / Friday, January 17, 2020 | |
 When asked, the members of the Federal Reserve Board continue to argue that the almost $500 million they have pumped into the overnight repurchase market since September is not quantitative easing. The stock market disagrees. "Not QE" is the term most often used by the Street in describing this fairly hefty expansion of the central bank's balance sheet. Because the purchases that the Fed is making are categorized as debt instruments that mature in 12 months or less, they escape the hard and fast definition of what the Fed labels as quantitative easing. QE is the purchase of longer-dated maturities of debt instruments, so the Fed is technically correct. However, 0 Comments
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10X10 Upstreet Arts Festival Returns in February By Jack Guerino, iBerkshires Staff
04:00AM / Friday, January 17, 2020 | |
Mayor Linda Tyer tells how she used to tend a community garden at Canoe Meadows Wildlife Sanctuary. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The expanded 9th annual 10X10 Upstreet Arts Festival returns to cure those winter blues this February with a new emphasis on outdoor recreation. Mayor Linda Tyer announced this year's festival events Thursday at Canoe Meadows Wildlife Sanctuary along side Parks and Open Spaces Manager James McGrath, Director of Cultural Development Jen Glockner, and Becky Cushing of Mass Audubon as a way to recommit to the city's efforts to capitalize on its recreational economy. "The art festival has amazing events and programs that give 1 Comment
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Mount Greylock Committee Meets Award Winners, Discusses Budget PrioritiesBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
02:29AM / Friday, January 17, 2020 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williamstown Elementary School sixth-graders chosen as examples of good citizenship last week told the Mount Greylock Regional School Committee about one way that example is being modeled to the whole school. Four 2020 winners of the Renzi Awards were recognized at the committee's monthly meeting. And Vice Principal Elea Kaatz explained that the school's Choose to Be Nice program includes a monthly all-school assembly organized by the sixth-grade Spirit Committee. "Each spirit assembly introduces the month's values," Renzi Award winner Yeshe Gutschow Rai told the committee. "The value include respect, kindness, 0 Comments
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Pittsfield Receives Insurance Grant to Inspect ParksBy Jack Guerino, iBerkshires Staff
01:21AM / Friday, January 17, 2020 | |
City Council accepted a number of grants and referred several matters to the Finance Subcommittee. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The city received a $10,000 grant from the Massachusetts Interlocal Insurance Association to inspect all playgrounds and provide inspection trainings. The City Council accepted the $10,000 grant Tuesday. Superintendent of Parks Chris Evangelisto told the council that it will allow the city to inspect its own parks instead of outsourcing the service. "Previously MIIA had a risk assessor they would send out. They haven't done it in three-plus years but that is why we went after this grant," Evangelisto said. "To get an 1 Comment
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BArT Tops Buxton at the Armory| 10:23PM / Thursday, January 16, 2020 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- Brandon Bamba and Isaac Bamba scored 20 and 19 points, respectively, to lead the BArT Charter basketball team to a 63-23 win over Buxton on Thursday. Owen Brady and Kayla Saunders scored seven points apiece, and William Peet recorded three blocks. BArT hosts White Oak on Tuesday at the Armory. 0 Comments
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The Independent Investor: Can We Afford 4 More Years of Trade Wars?By Bill Schmick,
08:02PM / Thursday, January 16, 2020 | |
 The Phase One trade deal with China was signed with a great deal of pomp and circumstance this week. While happy that trade tensions on both sides have been reduced, the vast majority of Wall Street players saw the deal as a win for China. After almost three years of threats, bluster and on-again-off-again tariffs, we are right back where we were before Donald Trump was elected. Yes, China has agreed to purchase an additional $200 billion in U.S. goods over the next two years, but the trade deficit was always the wrong metric when comparing our overall trade with China. Trade imbalances are caused by capital flows. Don't take my word for it, just ask any economist in the 0 Comments
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BCC Announces Fall Semester Dean's List| 04:48PM / Thursday, January 16, 2020 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Community College has announced its fall 2019 Dean's List.
To be eligible for the list, full-time students must have declared a major; completed a minimum of 12 non-repeated, traditionally graded credit hours during the spring semester; and achieved a 3.250 to 3.749 grade point average for Honors, or a 3.750 to 4.000 grade point average for High Honors.
Part-time students are eligible for the list if they meet the same requirements, except that their credit hours may have been completed during the fall and spring semesters of one academic year.
The following 73 students qualified for High Honors: Massachusetts Adams: Allison Armata, Rebekah Baker,
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'1917': Mistaken DestinyBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
04:32PM / Thursday, January 16, 2020 | |
 Anyone with half a brain knows that there's no such thing as a war movie … that there are only antiwar movies, of which director-writer Sam Mendes' "1917" is an iconic example. They also know that this harrowing, R-deserving delve into the bowels of humankind destroying each other with whatever new, technological device available to them, is a symptom of a species not yet civilized. So of course, exiting the theater after receiving this booster shot of a reminder that thou shalt not kill, a cynically overwhelming shadow took center stage of my thoughts. Doubtless, all through this country, in hollows from hinterland to urban ghetto, and all through the 0 Comments
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Local Architect Appointed As Massachusetts Licensing Adviser to National Council| 03:37PM / Thursday, January 16, 2020 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Kerry Bartini, the principal architect at Berkshire Design, was appointed to be the American Institute of Architects' Massachusetts licensing adviser to the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards on Jan. 10.
In her new role, Bartini, who has been a licensing adviser since 2016, will continue to work directly with architectural licensing candidates, but will have more direct contact with AIA branches, firms and schools across the commonwealth, as well as the licensing board. Licensing advisers work with NCARB and are part of a community that helps foster licensing and certification.
"The path to licensure can sometimes be daunting,
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