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 | @theMarket: 1995 Redux?
By my reckoning, this leg of the stock market rally began about a week after the presidential elections. The rally overall has been going on much longer. The question everyone is asking is how long it can go on without a major correction.
If one looks back through history, the chances of the S&P 500 Index continuing to move higher
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 | Superior Court Briefs: May 10 - May 17
Cases heard before Judge C. Jeffrey Kinder on Friday, May 10.
Christopher White, 25, of Pittsfield pleaded guilty to five counts of breaking and entering in the daytime, five counts of larceny from a building, and single counts of breaking and entering in the daytime placing a person in fear, illegal possession of a firearm, larceny
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 | Berkshires Students Compete at State Latin Convention
Taconic students John Buckley and Robert Mottley wearing togas.
HYANNIS, Mass. — Taconic High and Pittsfield High school students joined Mount Greylock Regional students in Hyannis on Friday, May 10, to participate in the 57th annual Massachusetts Junior Classical League State
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 | Berkshire Bank Foundation Awards 8 Scholarships
Toby Alves Jr. of Charles H. McCann Technical School in North Adams with his surprise Berkshire Bank Foundation Scholarship. See more photos on the Berskhire Bank Facebook page.
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Bank has selected 30 high school seniors to receive a total of $45,000 in scholarships through its
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 | River Council Grills EPA on Silver Lake Cleanup
A floating payloader is being used to pull up debris from Silver Lake; disturbing the sediment caused recent spikes in airborne PCBs.
LENOX, Mass. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was taken to task on Wednesday for not doing enough to alert residents around Pittsfield's Silver Lake to
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 | Wahconah High Graduate Killed in Afghanistan
Army Spc. Mitchell Daehling of Dalton was reportedly killed in action in Afghanistan earlier this week.
Update: The Defense Department on Friday afternoon confirmed that Army Spec. Mitchell Daehling and two others died May 14 "of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked their unit with an improvised explosive
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 | Pittsfield YMCA Planning Major Changes In Operations
CEO Randy Kinnas outlined the new strategic plan on Thursday in a meeting with community leaders.
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Y is completely revamping that way it operates.
The Pittsfield Family YMCA presented a new strategic plan Thursday that calls for dramatically changing how they handle
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 | The Independent Investor: Sticker Shock in Housing Market
The housing market has been in the doldrums so long that most of us believe that when we are ready to buy a new home there will be plenty of deals out there. Think again, the rising costs of everything from land to labor are causing new home prices to climb.
As U.S. residential real estate begins to rebound from its worst downturn since
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 | Pittsfield Council News in Brief
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The City Council approved two new City Hall hires put forward by Mayor Daniel Bianchi on Tuesday.
The approval fills key positions at City Hall. Douglas C. Clark nows heads the Department of Community Development and John M. DeAngelo will serve as personnel director. Clark fills a vacancy left by the departure of
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 | 'The Great Gatsby': A Bit Jazzed-Up
Popcorn Column
by Michael S. Goldberger
Warner Brothers
Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Jay Gatsby in Baz Luhrmann's take of 'The Great Gatsby.'
Too bad the 1926, silent version of "The Great Gatsby," filmed
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