PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Hundreds of people packed Berkshire Community Community College for a tail-wagging good time Sunday.

The 12th annual Not Your Average Dog Show saw hundreds of dogs and nearly 400 community members coming and going from the college's Paterson Field House.

The event is a fundraiser for the BCC Foundation's annual fund, which supports purchasing technology, paying for out-of-classroom learning experiences and student financial assistance.

"We try to give our students every opportunity to compete for jobs or transfers to other schools," said BCC Foundation President Jeff Doscher of the some $4,000 raised each year with the

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — There is still plenty of "low-hanging fruit" the government can pursue to improve the its energy portfolio, according to state Department of Public Utilities Commissioner David Cash.

Cash was the guest speaker Thursday at an energy forum at Berkshire Community College, where he advocated for government officials to continue pushing for alternative energy. Massachusetts is "at the end of the pipeline," which inflates cost and is a factor in why businesses opt to open elsewhere, he said.

However, there are plenty of ways to lower those costs such as improving technology, investing in alternative energy and continuing to

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Museum will host the third annual Science and Innovation Fair, featuring the Taconic High School Science and Engineering Academy and the Pittsfield High School Quark Science Club, on Tuesday, Feb. 12. 

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Pittsfield High School Band is hosting a concert at at the Robert Boland Theater at Berkshire Community College to raise funds for the band's trip to Quebec, Canada, in late April. This event, "Keep Music Education Alive," has raised thousands of dollars for high school education programs throughout New England.

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ADAMS, Mass. — Berkshire Arts & Technology Public Charter School has been given approval to increase its enrollment and include the city of Pittsfield in its charter.

The move will help shorten a waitlist while putting the school on stronger economic footing, according to Executive Director Julia Bowen. The school applied for state approval in August and received it on Tuesday.

The enrollment cap on the Grades 6-through-12 school will increase from 308 to 363, which should to reduce a waiting list and even out enrollment.

Last year some 40 students who applied were not able to attend because of the enrollment cap. While the increase of 55 students would seem

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Community College will host an Energy Forum with state Department of Public Utitilities Commissioner David Cash, BCC President Ellen Kennedy and Berkshire Chamber of Commerce President Michael Supranowicz.

The forum will be held in Room H219 in the Hawthorne Building on campus on Thursday, Feb. 7, from 9 to 10:30 a.m. It will include an optional tour of the newly renovated Ralph Hoffmann Environmental Center, Greenhouse, and Sustainable Energy Center.

Cash will discuss the natural gas boom, electricity rates, how rates are changing and how the state's energy efficiency and renewable energy programs will help mitigate high energy costs and

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Miss Hall's School received a Bronze Award for its annual fund brochures in the Fundraising Materials category of the 2013 Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, District I Communication Awards. This marks the second consecutive year that the school has been recognized with a CASE Award.

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Three candidates will be interviewed over the next two weeks for the position of school superintendent in what the School Committee hopes will result in the culmination of a troubled yearlong quest to fill the job left vacant by Howard "Jake" Eberwein last spring.  

The three finalists, Ann Bradshaw, Jason McCandless and William Hart, emerged from a pool of 18 applicants responding to a revised search conducted with the help of consultants from Future Management Systems, which included an increase in the salary range from $125,000 to a range of $150,00-$170,000. The three were chosen out of six semifinalists interviewed in

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Community College has released the the dean's list for fall 2012.

According to Frances Feinerman, vice president for academic affairs, 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 fall semester; and achieved a 3.250 to 3.749 grade-point average for honors, or a 3.75 to 4.00 GPA 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.

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. — U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal thinks modern technology has hurt communications. And he is willing to put $168,000 of federal funds toward fixing that at Reid Middle School.

Neal visited the school on Thursday to announce a 21st Century Learning grant which will create an array of enrichment programs and increase tutoring for  students. The programming will focus on verbal communication, math science with hands-on projects.

"There is nothing wrong with completing a sentence," Neal told about a dozen students. "Part of the problem with modern communication is that we don't finish a thought."

While testing standards are

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