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2nd Street Names New Board Members| 12:17PM / Thursday, January 05, 2023 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — 2nd Street, an organization supporting formerly incarcerated men and women in Berkshire County, has elected four members to its board of directors, effective as of Jan. 1, 2023. They are Kristin Accetta, Jay R. Green, Andy Ottoson and Nyanna L. Slaughter. Accetta is a clinician for the Acute Care Services/Emergency Services Program at the Brien Center for Mental Health and Substance Use in Pittsfield. After completing Berkshire Community College's Social Work Transfer Program in 2011, she earned a bachelor of social work degree from Elms College in 2013 and a master of social work degree from Westfield State University's Advance 0 Comments
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Moving Pictures: Video Highlights of 2022iBerkshires.com Sports,
10:08AM / Thursday, January 05, 2023 | |
 It was a busy year for athletes throughout Berkshire County, and iBerkshires.com was lucky enough to capture some of their many accomplishments on video. Here is a look back at just some of the high points: January Drury’s Owen Taylor scores in the last second to give his team a 3-2 win at Wahconah. February Taconic’s Noah Poirier gets a pin to win an individual Western Mass title and help the Thunder earn a team sectional crown. The first wave of boys heads out at the state Nordic Ski Championships, where Mount Greylock defended its team title. Maya Duhamel rolls a strike to help Taconic win the Berkshire County 0 Comments
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BRTA, Great Barrington Receives Community Transit Grant Program Funds| 08:15AM / Thursday, January 05, 2023 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Town of Great Barrington was awarded $32,000 to fund the purchase of operational software for on-demand ride scheduling and dispatch to support a new microtransit pilot program in Great Barrington, Egremont, and Stockbridge The Berkshire Regional Transit Authority (BRTA) was awarded $8,414 from the grant program to continue funding for salaries and materials to support BRTA's travel training program. The Baker-Polito Administration announced a total of $1.9 million for municipalities, Councils on Aging, Regional Transit Authorities, and nonprofit organizations under the Community Transit Grant Program administered by the Massachusetts 0 Comments
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YMCA Opens New Basketball Court, Indoor Walking TrackBy Sabrina Damms, iBerkshires Staff
05:10AM / Thursday, January 05, 2023 | |
Branch Director Kayla McNeice, right, and Executive Director Jess Rumlow on the new walking and running track. The YMCA is about to enter the fourth and final phase of its $12.4 million overhaul. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Berkshire Family YMCA held a soft opening ceremony to introduce the organization's new basketball court and walking track to its patrons on Tuesday evening. The basketball court is narrowly finished as it is still awaiting a scoreboard and bleachers that will seat approximately 200 people. Organization leaders and YMCA patrons gathered in the newly renovated basketball court to cheer on raffle winner Owen Joseph as he took 0 Comments
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Shugrue, Bowler Pledge 'Better, Safer' Berkshire CommunityBy Brittany Polito, iBerkshires Staff
07:39PM / Wednesday, January 04, 2023 | |
Sheriff Thomas Bowler is sworn into a third term on Wednesday. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — New District Attorney Timothy Shugrue pledged on Wednesday to make Berkshire County a safer and better community and be responsive to stakeholders. His first act was to create an Office of Community Engagement within the prosecutor's office. "I will express my thanks to you via the daily work my office is committed to. I will not only serve a prosecutorial manner, but perhaps more importantly, an administration that is devoted to improving Berkshire County," the new DA said to the capacity crowd in Berkshire Superior Court for his swearing 0 Comments
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Lanesborough Health Board, Physical Therapy Office at Odds Over MasksBy Brian Rhodes, iBerkshires Staff
03:42PM / Wednesday, January 04, 2023 | |
LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — After hearing several complaints about the facility last year, the Board of Health still has problems with mask compliance at Greylock Physical Therapy. Board Chair Lawrence Spatz said staff in the facility are still not wearing masks, as required by the state Department of Public Health's guidelines. The state's most recent order, issued last October, says staff and vendors in health-care practice settings, including physical therapy, are still required to wear masks. "When you go to any other health-care facility I've been to, they still are required, and the staff is all wearing masks," he said at
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Pittsfield Receives Grant for Wastewater Improvements | 11:05AM / Wednesday, January 04, 2023 | |
BOSTON — The City of Pittsfield will receive a Gap Energy Grant Program to implement a clean energy Combined Heat and Power (CHP) generation project that is expected. The project is expected to save the city over $500,000 annually while reducing electric utility bills by 35 percent Wastewater Treatment Plant. “Assisting municipalities, small businesses and non-profit organizations to proactively work to reduce their energy usage and utilize clean, renewable energy is among our top environmental priorities,” said Governor Charlie Baker. “These Gap Energy Grant Program funds will greatly assist these municipalities and organizations as they work to 0 Comments
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Lanesborough Finance Committee Hopes to be More Involved This YearBy Brian Rhodes, iBerkshires Staff
05:17AM / Wednesday, January 04, 2023 | |
LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — The Finance Committee hopes to be more involved earlier in the budget process this year. The committee has already sent out letters to department heads about returning budgets by Feb. 15. Committee Chair Jodi-Lee Szczepaniak-Locke said she hopes to reduce the budget as much as possible. "I really think that this is the year that we need to be more visible in the pre-planning stages of the budget, before they get to the Board of Selectmen, before they get to the town administrator," she said. "... It's really time for some of those harder conversations to be had." The board had issues at last year's
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New Year, Some New Leadership for Berkshire CountyBy Brittany Polito, iBerkshires Staff
06:04PM / Tuesday, January 03, 2023 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — 2023 will bring some new and familiar leadership to Berkshire County and beyond as a new term begins. The county will see a new district attorney, an incumbent sheriff, returning state representatives, and a new representative in the Senate. This is all under the leadership of a new administration led — beginning Thursday — by Gov. Maura Healey and Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll.
Timothy Shugrue will take over the Berkshire County district attorney's office on Wednesday at 3 p.m. after winning the primary election in September against Andrea Harrington. He had no opponent in the general election.
He pledged to make Berkshire County safer by prosecuting
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Charlie Baker Wraps Up Leadership of a 'Very Special Place'By Brittany Polito, iBerkshires Staff
04:33PM / Tuesday, January 03, 2023 | |
Gov. Charlie Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito touring the vaccination site in Pittsfield during the pandemic. The two state leaders made numerous trips to the Berkshires during their eight years in office. BOSTON — Gov. Charlie Baker bid farewell to the people of the commonwealth virtually on Tuesday after eight years in office. He and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito did not seek re-election and will be replaced by Gov.-elect Maura Healey and Lt. Gov.-elect Kim Driscoll, who are being inaugurated on Thursday.
Baker coined Massachusetts as a "very special place."
"Despite a myriad of political fights and distractions that were raging all around us, people here chose to
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BCC to Offer Flu and COVID Vaccines| 12:22PM / Tuesday, January 03, 2023 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass —?Berkshire Community College (BCC)?welcomes Berkshire Health Systems (BHS) and Community Health Programs (CHP) to campus on?Friday, Jan. 6 from 1:30-3 pm?for free vaccination clinics. The Dec. 16 clinic was canceled due to weather conditions. BCC is located at 1350 West Street, Pittsfield. CHP's mobile health unit, the?"Big Orange Bus,"?will administer Pfizer and Moderna bivalent boosters, COVID vaccines for those age six months and older, and flu vaccines. To schedule an appointment, call (413) 528-0457. Walk-ins are also welcome. Vaccines are given free of charge.?Please bring insurance 0 Comments
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Mass RMV to Remove Option for Customers to Opt Out of Automatic Voter Registration| 08:48AM / Tuesday, January 03, 2023 | |
 BOSTON — The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) is announcing that effective Jan.1, 2023, the RMV is no longer allowed to offer the option for customers to opt out of automatic voter registration. The opportunity for driver's license and ID applicants to decline automatic voter registration is no longer possible in accordance with "The VOTES Act," a new election reform law which was passed by the Massachusetts State Legislature on June 22, 2022. On each business day, the RMV will be required to transmit to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, specific applicant information on all eligible transactions with the RMV meeting the select criteria 3 Comments
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