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U.S. Rep. Neal Announces Grant For Pittsfield Fire DepartmentBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
07:30PM / Monday, April 29, 2013 | |
 U.S. Rep. Richard Neal, Mayor Daniel Bianchi and Fire Chief Robert Czerwinski announced the grant on Monday. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Fire Department will be purchasing 28 new air packs with the help of a $132,300 federal grant.
The airpacks will meet National Fire Protection Association standards and replace ones dating back to 1997. The city is putting $14,700 toward the purchases, which will be ordered in July and expected to stock every truck.
"This will bring us into a new era of 2013 standards," Fire Chief Robert Czerwinski said on Monday, when he was joined by U.S. Rep. Richard Neal to announce the grant.
The department purchased six new packs in July
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Pittsfield, Lenox Girls Win Science Fair Genzyme AwardBy John Durkan, iBerkshires Staff
12:43PM / Monday, April 29, 2013 | |
 Allison Wolfe, left, and Ella King won the Genzyme Award at the Region 1 Massachusetts Science and Engineering Fair on Saturday. For more photos, see the slideshow. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Eighth-graders Ella King and Allison Wolfe didn't meet each other until February when they started to work together for their Region 1 Massachusetts Science and Engineering Fair project. King and Wolfe didn't even go to the same school or live in the same town — King lives in Lenox while Wolfe resides in Pittsfield. Neither of their schools were in the competition. But King, of Lenox Memorial Middle School, and Wolfe, a student at Herberg Middle School, took the initiative 0 Comments
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 |  Morningside Neighborhood Cleanup & Cherry Street Flower Planting
by Soapbox 01:00PM / Friday, May 17, 2013
Morningside Neighborhood Cleanup & Cherry Street Flower Planting
May 18th
9:00AM--11AM
Morningside Neighborhood Clean Up begins on Saturday May 18th at 9AM, and will end when the dumpsters are full! Bring your acceptable goods to the Morningside Community School parking lot, where it can placed in dumpsters and |
|  PHS Drama Students Present Annual "Haunted Halls" Tour Oct 27-28
by Soapbox 01:02AM / Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Pittsfield High School's drama society, Proteus, will present its annual "Haunted Halls" at PHS on Friday & Saturday, Oct 26-27, from 6:30-8:30 PM
The public is welcome to
|  LA Band With Pittsfield Ties Returns
by Joe Durwin 10:46AM / Saturday, October 06, 2012
Dollyrots to Perform at Chameleons Nightclub Saturday Oct. 6
By Joe Durwin
Pittsfield, MASS- An L.A. act with unique ties to the area will return for its 7th show here in five years at
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Hair Studio to Host Cut-A-Thon Benefit for Junior League| 11:30AM / Monday, April 29, 2013 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Hair Studio will sponsor a Cut-A-Thon event on Sunday, May 5, from noon to 4 p.m. at its salon on 10 Bank Row. The Cut-A-Thon will support the Junior League of Berkshire County's "Curl Up With a Good Book" program. Anyone 12 or older who donates $20 to the cause will receive a hair cut that includes consultation, wash, cut and blow dry, with no appointment necessary. "I think what the Junior League is doing to help our school kids is just great, we all do." said owner Frank Napolitano. "We don't normally work Sundays but all of my stylists were happy to volunteer their time because it's such a great 0 Comments
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Pittsfield Celebrates Arbor Day 2013By Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
07:12PM / Friday, April 26, 2013 | |
 Robert Mellace of DCR said Arbor Day is 'one of the holidays when one person can make a difference.' PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Robert Presutti is considered the "go-to" guy when it comes to anything tree-related. The Lanesborough resident has been volunteering his expertise since 1998. He's served on his hometown's Tree Committee, for which he was named an Outstanding Citizen Forester by the state in 2005, and on the board of the Vincent J. Hebert Arboreteum at Springside Park. Presutti is often seen taking care of trees at Springside and running free pruning workshops, and has worked with the Department of Public Works. He goes to conferences across the
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@theMarket: Five for FiveBy Bill Schmick,
06:38PM / Friday, April 26, 2013 | |
 It was another good week for the averages with all three indexes chalking up five days of gains in a row. Friday, however, was a mild disappointment thanks to the latest GDP data.
Economists were looking for a first quarter gain of 3 percent in GDP. Instead, the nation's gross domestic product came in at 2.5 percent, but it was still a good number compared to last quarter's 0.4 percent growth. The stock markets, however, have proven that they care less about growth and more about how much and how long the Fed's monetary easing will continue.
In this goldilocks market, good economic data is good news for stocks but also are disappointing economic numbers. I know that sounds
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'Trance': You're Getting Sleepy, SleepyBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
12:10PM / Friday, April 26, 2013 | |
 Popcorn Column
by Michael S. Goldberger
Fox Searchlight Pictures You know that dream you have, the one you think you've had several times before, but when you awake can't recall the recurrence? Well, if you can explain what that's all about, you'll have no trouble following director Danny Boyle's quasi-linear "Trance," about a psychologist's attempt to help some art thieves find a misplaced masterpiece. Formed of numerous story striations, seemingly plopped together to confuse, the film's elusive nature does work to draw our interest, but in the final analysis, not all that 0 Comments
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Mass Broadband Updates Pittsfield Economic Group On ProgressBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
11:52AM / Friday, April 26, 2013 | |
 Judy Dumont, executive director of MBI, discussed the progress in the effort to bring broadband to all corners of the state. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — In the last 10-15 years, the Internet has created 1.2 million jobs so bringing broadband to all parts of the county will be a "game changer," Massachusetts Broadband Institute Executive Director Judy Dumont told the Pittsfield Economic Revitalization Corp.
PERC, a volunteer group of county businesses leaders working toward economic development, invited Dumont to be the keynote speaker at its annual meeting on Friday. Dumont detailed the process of using some $85 million in federal and state funds to further
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Superior Court Briefs: April 23 - April 25Staff Reports,
11:13AM / Friday, April 26, 2013 | |
 Cases heard before Judge Daniel Ford on Tuesday, April 23.
Anthony Thompson, 33, of Pittsfield pleaded guilty to a single count of participating in betting.
The case was continued without a finding. Thompson admitted to using illegal poker machines in Pittsfield on April 27, 2012.
Cases heard before Judge Daniel Ford on Thursday, April 25.
Daniel Lowenstein, 22, of Amherst, had not guilty pleas entered on his behalf on three counts of distribution of marijuana and single counts of possession of a sawed-off shotgun, illegal possession of a firearm, possession of a firearm with a defaced serial number, possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and operating a motor vehicle under
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The Independent Investor: R2D2 and the Stock MarketBy Bill Schmick,
03:40PM / Thursday, April 25, 2013 | |
 Tuesday's "flash crash" precipitated by a fake tweet attributed to a major news organization is old news by now. No long-term investors got hurt in the debacle and by the end of the week it was business as usual in the nation's exchanges. That doesn't mean it won't happen again and again.
In just four minutes, $136 billion was erased from the S&P 500 Index, the main benchmark average of the stock market. The Dow lost 145 points at the same time. Both averages regained those losses over the next two minutes causing some traders to check whether the elevator ride was real or a computer glitch. It was neither.
Having a front-row seat to the now-notorious tweet
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Pittsfield Church Celebrating 100th YearBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
01:35PM / Thursday, April 25, 2013 | |
 St. Mark's was formed in 1913 as the daughter parish of St. Joseph's on North Street. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — St. Mark's Church has been a big part of Linda Murphy's life. Her parents were active in the West Street church and so was she. Growing up on Onota Street, she would walk to the church's bazaars and dinners and was in its Militia of Mary.
At one dinner, a young man she hadn't seen too much of at church events helped park her family's car. It wasn't too long after that they were married.
Now Murphy is the parish nurse, hosting health clinics and screenings while her husband, Dick Murphy, works in the parish food pantry and
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