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New Dentist Joins CHP| 10:48AM / Thursday, August 06, 2020 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Dr. Yaman M. Kana has joined the CHP dental staff. He is seeing patients at both CHP Neighborhood Dental Center in Pittsfield and North Adams Family Medical & Dental. Dr. Kana received his dental education at Ovidius University of Constanta in Romania. He first practiced general dentistry in a private practice in Damascus, Syria, and also in the Syrian military. He then settled in Boston, working in both a private practice and at Boston University's Dental Health Center. Kana later worked at the Brockton Neighborhood Health Center, then went on to practice dentistry at DotHouse Health Center in Dorchester, HealthFirst Family Care Center in Fall River and,
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Berkshires Beat: Food Pantry Returning to Eagle Street Starting Aug. 12| 10:38AM / Tuesday, August 04, 2020 | |
 Back home Starting Wednesday, Aug. 12, the Al Nelson Friendship Center Food Pantry will return to operating out of its home at 45 Eagle St. in North Adams. At that time, the hours will change to 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for those coming directly to the Friendship Center. Intake and food distribution will take place at the front door. Those who cannot physically come to the food pantry or who feel ill, may call 413-664-0123 on Wednesday during hours of operation to set up a delivery. Deliveries will take place between 10 a.m. and noon on Thursday, Aug. 13. The Food Pantry will operate from the Holden Street side of the St. Elizabeth Parish Center one final Wednesday, Aug. 5, during two sessions, 10
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Tanglewood Online Festival Enters Sixth WeekBy Stephen Dankner, Guest Columist
09:51AM / Tuesday, August 04, 2020 | |
 The Tanglewood 2020 Online Festival will enter its sixth week with an expansive range of innovative digital audio and video streams. These performances were recorded at Tanglewood's new and breathtaking spaces at the superbly designed Linde Center – a constituent part of the BSO's/Tanglewood's new entity, the Tanglewood Learning Institute (TLI). Other concerts will include performances previously recorded and archived by the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood. A unique, all-encompassing digital music festival, the array of programming replicates a choice selection of the previously announced 2020 live performances Tanglewood had hoped to present this summer,
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How Can You Help Lower Your Longevity Risk?Submitted by Edward Jones,
09:16AM / Tuesday, August 04, 2020 | |
 The investment world contains different types of risk. Your stocks or stock-based mutual funds could lose value during periods of market volatility. The price of your bonds or bond funds could also decline, if new bonds are issued at higher interest rates. But have you ever thought about longevity risk? Insurance companies and pension funds view longevity risk as the risk they incur when their assumptions about life expectancies and mortality rates are incorrect, leading to higher payout levels. But for you, as an individual investor, longevity risk is less technical and more emotional: it's the risk of outliving your money. To assess your own longevity risk, you first will want to
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Pittsfield Police Chief Says Too Soon Assess Budget Cut ImpactBy Jack Guerino, iBerkshires Staff
01:18AM / Tuesday, August 04, 2020 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — It's only one month into the fiscal year so it's still not clear how cuts made to the city's police budget will play out. Police Chief Michael Wynn told the Police Advisory and Review Board that it is still too soon to tell how the reduced budget will affect operations. "It is up in the air we really just got a budget past," Wynn said. "Operationally we really are just getting our feet under us." During the June budget hearings, the City Council cut $100,000 from the department's budget and earmarked another $85,000 for additional mental health clinicians The $100,000 2 Comments
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Isaias to Bring Rain, Wind to Northeast | 10:07PM / Monday, August 03, 2020 | |
 A tropical storm warning has been issued for Massachusetts and Connecticut as now-Hurricane Isaias was nearing landfall along the Carolinas' coasts. Rain in the region is expected to start during the night on Monday and continue through Wednesday. "Along and just northwest of the I-95 corridor of the mid-Atlantic and southern New England, heavy windblown rain with embedded thunderstorms will be the central theme from Isaias," AccuWeather Northeast weather expert Elliot Abrams said on Monday. Isaias is expected to make landfall Monday night as a Category 1 and shift inland, with Accuweather saying the eye of what should then be a tropical storm moving north 0 Comments
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First-Responder Profiles: EMS Director Jen Weber| 01:23PM / Monday, August 03, 2020 | |
Jen Weber shows students some of the ambulance equipment. LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — The COVID-19 pandemic has perhaps brought the role of first-responders more to the forefront lately, but these men and women have regularly been serving their communities in numerous emergency situations. This is a series profiling some of our local first-responders in partnership with Lee Bank to highlight the work they do every day — not just during a pandemic. Emergency medical technician Jen Weber has been working in the health-care field for awhile but only recently became involved in emergency medicine. She attended Mount Anthony Union High School in Bennington, 0 Comments
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Pittsfield Thunder Baseball Takes Two from AmericansCommunity submission,
12:04PM / Monday, August 03, 2020 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- Brayden Gutzmer had four hits, including a double and a triple, to help lead the Pittsfield Thunder 14-year-old travel baseball team to a double-header sweep of the Berkshire Americans on Sunday at Joe Wolfe field. In the opener, Gutzmer had two extra-base hits, and Antonio Scalise tripled and scored twice. Nick Brindle had two hits and a walk in an 11-0 win. Charlie Wendell struck out five in four innings of work to get the win on the mound. Austin Buda doubled for the Americans. In Game 2, Alex Williams doubled, and eight different Pittsfield players had a hit in a 6-2 win. Ben Cornish and Gutzmer split time on the mound; Cornish 0 Comments
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Pittsfield Panel Wants Public Participation on Pot Growing By Jack Guerino, iBerkshires Staff
02:11AM / Monday, August 03, 2020 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Ordinance and Rules subcommittee will take up outdoor marijuana cultivation in residential zones once members can meet in person. The subcommittee voted to table an agenda item Wednesday that would restrict marijuana cultivation in residential zones until meetings can be opened more fully to the public. "I think it is important that we can meet in person," Chairman Nicholas Caccamo said. "If you attended the meetings before, there was a lot of community involvement and a lot of neighborhoods are involved in this." In February, the Community Development Board acted on a petition from Councilor at Large Earl Persip 0 Comments
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Markey Talks Education, Health & Green New Deal in Campaign SwingBy Jack Guerino & Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
07:35PM / Friday, July 31, 2020 | |
Markey says public education and student access to the internet are keys to the future during a stop in North Adams. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — U.S. Sen. Edward Markey made three stops in the Berkshires on Friday to speak on education, technology climate change, health care, racial justice and other issuing affecting the nation. His "Leads and Delivers Tour" bus campaign has been making its way around the state as he seeks re-election in the U.S. Senate. The state's junior senator is being challenged in the Sept. 1 Democratic primary by U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy III of Brighton. The former Malden representative is known for his 5 Comments
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@theMarket: Stocks Fall as Congress Fails to ActBy Bill Schmick,
04:06PM / Friday, July 31, 2020 | |
 It should come as no surprise that our politicians failed to compromise on a new bailout package this week. It is symptomatic of a country that suffers from a great philosophical divide. The only entity that investors can truly believe in is the Fed. Keep the faith. Chairman Jerome Powell, in his Thursday press conference after the two-day Federal Open Market Committee meeting, said the path forward is "extraordinarily uncertain." As such, our central bank will remain accommodating, he promised, which means the financial markets will continue to be supported going forward. Readers should remember that. Over the long term, I plan to remain constructive towards 0 Comments
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Governor Launches Mask Awareness Campaign After COVID-19 OutbreaksBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
02:48PM / Friday, July 31, 2020 | |
 I’m joining @MassGovernor & @MassDPH to keep Massachusetts safe. It’s time to #MaskUpMA! https://t.co/oFUZs2q1QM pic.twitter.com/NlQv1d9Qna — Wally (@Wally97) July 31, 2020 BOSTON — House parties, camps and other large gatherings are being blamed as contributing to "a slight but important rise" in positive cases in Massachusetts. Gov. Charlie Baker, in announcing a #MaskUpMA initiative on Friday, said these "lapses in judgment" are "missed opportunities to keep the door that we all work so hard to close shut." All of the gatherings cited that have created hot spots were in the eastern part of the state, where the 1 Comment
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