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Healey Announces Executive Order Creating Housing Working Group | 08:17AM / Sunday, January 29, 2023 | |
BOSTON — At the Massachusetts Municipal Association's annual meeting last weekend, Gov. Maura T. Healey said she has filed an Executive Order creating a Housing Working Group. The group will be chaired by Lt. Gov. Kimberley Driscoll and comprised of stakeholders, including housing developers, advocates, municipal leaders and others to be named at a later date. The group is charged with guiding the structure of Healey's new housing secretariat and informing the process of filing an Article 87 to create the position. The governor has pledged to file legislation creating this new secretariat within her first 100 days. "One of the single 0 Comments
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Ashuwillticook Rail Trail Extending Farther Into Pittsfield in 2024By Brittany Polito, iBerkshires Staff
06:18PM / Saturday, January 28, 2023 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Ashuwillticook Rail Trail will extend to Merrill Road in 2024, bringing bike and pedestrian recreation farther into the city. Phase 2 of the extension along the abandoned Housatonic railroad line will be bid in the spring and completed next year. With a state and federally funded price tag of about $1.4 million, it includes a 10-foot paved multi-use path that runs from Crane Avenue to Merrill Road. The trail will eventually travel alongside the road to East Street and larger plans bring it through the whole county. On Tuesday, the City Council approved five temporary property easements to assist in the construction of the
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No Drought Conditions in Berkshire County| 04:41PM / Saturday, January 28, 2023 | |
BOSTON — Through the month of December 2022, the majority of the state experienced drought improvements and Berkshire County has remained at level 0: normal conditions. This is not the case for the rest of the state. Secretary Rebecca Tepper announced the following drought declarations: the Islands Region will remain at a Level 2-Significant Drought, the Northeast and Cape Cod Regions have been upgraded to a Level 1-Mild Drought, and the Connecticut River Valley Region will join the Western, Central, and Southeast Regions at Level 0-Normal Conditions. Rain and snow events during the previous month and a half have been well above normal, and conditions are expected to 1 Comment
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Celebration Focuses on Importance of Water as Critical ResourceBy Brittany Polito, iBerkshires Staff
01:03PM / Saturday, January 28, 2023 | |
Organizer Leslie Gabriel says the fight for clean water means building a cultural connection with the critical resource. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — H20 was the theme of the night on Thursday as dozens of activists gathered at the Beacon Cinema for the first Berkshire Water Celebration. "I think what's missing in the fight for water is connecting people to the culture of water and the consciousness of water, which includes music and art and spirituality and economics and science and the environment, not just the environment, not just politics, not just science, it's all of that," organizer Leslie Gabriel said. "I think if we start to message 0 Comments
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National Grid To Provide Energy Bill Assistance to Mass Businesses | 10:54AM / Saturday, January 28, 2023 | |
WALTHAM, Mass. — National Grid announced it is partnering with four nonprofit business associations to distribute $1 million in grants to help businesses with their energy bills. National Grid is working with the Black Economic Council of Massachusetts (BECMA), the Retailers Association of Massachusetts (RAM), the Massachusetts Restaurant Association (MRA), and the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce to distribute up to $250,000 each to their small business members in need. "Small businesses are the lifeblood of our economy, and the impacts of the global energy crisis are creating real challenges," said Stephen Woerner, President of National Grid, New 1 Comment
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FEMA Awards Over $3 M to Mass for COVID-19 Response Costs| 08:01AM / Saturday, January 28, 2023 | |
BOSTON — The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be sending more than $3 million to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to reimburse the Executive Office of Health and Human Services for the costs of providing virtual triage services for hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic. The $3,056,275 Public Assistance grant will reimburse the commonwealth for contracting to provide virtual triage to reduce transmission that could occur if triage were to occur in crowded, in-person hospital settings between March 2020 and February 2021. The contractor also provided dissemination of information to the public across Massachusetts regarding guidance about the individual's risk 0 Comments
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Owner of Abandoned Cats Pleads Guilty to Animal CrueltyStaff Reports,
05:20PM / Friday, January 27, 2023 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A woman accused of abandoning more than a dozen cats during snowstorm a year ago has pleaded guilty. Kelly Hathaway of Pittsfield pleaded guilty on Friday to two counts of animal cruelty in Central Berkshire District Court as part of a plea agreement. Following the plea agreement, she was ordered to have a mental health evaluation and follow any after care as instructed by the court. She was placed on two years probation and ordered to perform 50 hours of community service. She is not allowed to possess any animals and was ordered to surrender any she has in her care. She is also prohibited from volunteering with any animal 0 Comments
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Pittsfield's Kalinowsky Seeks Voters' Input on North Street Traffic ConfirgurationBy Brittany Polito, iBerkshires Staff
04:34PM / Friday, January 27, 2023 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Councilor at Large Karen Kalinowsky wants to query residents on the downtown's reconfiguration using the 2023 ballot. The City Council on Tuesday supported her petition to place a question on the Nov. 7 general election ballot to return North Street to four lanes of traffic with turn lanes. It will be referred to the city solicitor for revisions and returned to the council at its next meeting. "I know this is my second petition, the last one went to the mayor," Kalinowsky said. "Ever since I was running for City Council, they had placed the bike lanes on North Street and as I was talking to constituents, most of them
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@theMarket: Macro-Economic Data Indicate a Soft LandingBy Bill Schmick,
03:48PM / Friday, January 27, 2023 | |
 The economy grew faster than most expected in the fourth quarter. Unemployment continues to remain tame and corporate earnings, while not stellar, have been good enough to support financial markets this week. Good news on the economy has been bad news for the stock market at least since the Fed has been tightening interest rates. The reasoning has been that stronger growth and employment would feed the inflation rate forcing even further tightening by the U.S. central bank and ultimately choking off the economy. Now that inflation appears to be coming down, a bullish case is building that says we might get away with just a mild (as opposed to a full-fledged) recession. If so, 0 Comments
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Upcoming Nursing Accreditation Review Visit at BCC| 01:51PM / Friday, January 27, 2023 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. —Berkshire Community College (BCC) has announced that it will host a site visit for continuing accreditation of its Associates Degree Nursing program by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN). The community is invited to meet with the site visit team and share their comments about the program in person at a meeting scheduled at 1:30-2:00 pm on Wednesday, March 8, 2023, in G-12 located at 1350 West St. This meeting is also available remotely using zoom - https://zoom.us/j/94368462033. Written comments are also welcome and should be submitted directly to: Dr. Nell Ard, Interim Chief Executive 0 Comments
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BCC Holds Pinning Ceremony for the Inaugural January ClassBy Sabrina Damms, iBerkshires Staff
04:45AM / Friday, January 27, 2023 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Community College honored the first graduates of its January nursing program on Thursday evening in a pinning ceremony held in the college's Boland Theatre. The ceremony marked the work of the 19 graduates over the past two years. It took a week longer than usual after being postponed because of a snow storm last week. "Tonight students celebrate their hard work in a nursing tradition dating back to the 1800s. It is the faculty's favorite time as they watched as their students have grown over the years," said Dean of Nursing Lori Moon. "Tonight is very important and each one of you worked 0 Comments
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Berkshire NAACP Freedom Fund Awards Honor ActivistsBy Brittany Polito, iBerkshires Staff
05:31PM / Thursday, January 26, 2023 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Berkshire NAACP held its annual Freedom Fund award ceremony virtually this past weekend, recognizing three individuals for their commitment to community and justice. The event raises funds to provide stipends to local Black, immigrant and other students of color who pursuing higher education. "Since 1980, the total cost of four-year public and four-year private college has nearly tripled. Federal support has not kept up. Pell Grants once covered nearly 80 percent of the cost of a four-year public college degree for students from working families but now only cover a third," board member Shirley Edgerton 0 Comments
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