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Juvenile Injured in Pittsfield Shooting| 03:52PM / Tuesday, July 19, 2022 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A boy was shot early Tuesday morning and taken to Berkshire Medical Center with wounds that were no considered life-threatening, according to police. Police report that officers responded to a ShotSpotter activation about 12:25 a.m. on Tuesday in the area of Pleasant Street. The activation indicated multiple rounds were fired. Responding officers arrived on scene and located the victim. A home had also been struck by gunfire and officers located additional ballistic evidence on scene. The victim's name is being withheld because he is a juvenile. Police say he is a resident of Pittsfield. Anyone who wishes to provide 0 Comments
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Lenox Residents Encouraged to Bring Storm Debris to Compost Site| 03:00PM / Tuesday, July 19, 2022 | |
LENOX, Mass. — The compost site at wastewater treatment plant on Crystal Street will open on Saturday from 9 to noon for the disposal of any debris from the on July 12 storm. The Department of Public Works is closing Reservoir Road intermittently this week for tree work. The National Weather Service in Albany, N.Y., said straight-line winds of up to 85 mph blew a path nearly a mile wide and 2 miles long and killed a New Hampshire man. A series of large thunderstorms storms were moving through the Northeast, bringing high winds, rain and hail to some areas. The severe winds blew through the town about 5 p.m. on July 12, the same day a microburst 0 Comments
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Lanesborough Planning Board ReorganizesBy Sabrina Damms, iBerkshires Staff
08:48AM / Tuesday, July 19, 2022 | |
LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — The Planning Board welcomed its new member Leanne Yinger on Monday. During the meeting, the board voted to have Gwen Miller as the new chair after Jeff DeChaine decided not to run for another 5-year term. Miller has been on the Planning Board since 2017 and received her master's in regional planning from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and has worked itown and regional planning in the Berkshires for the last decade. The only concern that the board raised was meeting attendance because of family responsibilities and her job as land use director and town planner for Lenox. Miller reassured the board that she 0 Comments
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State Lawmakers Push for Medicare For AllBy Brittany Polito, iBerkshires Staff
04:53AM / Tuesday, July 19, 2022 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Some state legislators argue that passing Medicare for All in Massachusetts could lead to a movement across the nation. That was the topic of a roundtable discussion state Rep. Paul Mark led with state Sen. Jamie Eldridge of Acton and state Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa of Northampton at Methuselah Bar and Lounge on Monday, prior to an event there for Mark's state Senate campaign. The lawmakers spoke about the future of health care in the commonwealth, as Eldridge is the Senate lead and Sabadosa a House sponsor on a bill to establish Medicare for All through a single-payer health care system. With single-payer health care, the costs of health 8 Comments
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Pittsfield Historical Commission Holds Off on Demolition DelayBy Brittany Polito, iBerkshires Staff
06:14PM / Monday, July 18, 2022 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Historical Commission is torn on a demolition delay application from Berkshire Theatre Group for a carriage house located behind the Thaddeus Clapp House. The panel decided to take some extra time with the application last week and will have a site visit to the structure.
After BTG spent more than $1 million to restore the Clapp House, a professional assessment indicated that the best path forward for the barn is to take it down. In the future, the theater sees more artist housing in that space, which is an area where it sees great need.
"We couldn't agree more about the historical value of that property and we feel it even more profoundly now as
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Pittsfield Allocates $8.6M in ARPA Funds for Housing InitiativesBy Brittany Polito, iBerkshires Staff
02:20PM / Monday, July 18, 2022 | |
White Terrace Apartments, the scene of two major fires, will house 37 units of affordable housing depending on state funding support. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Mayor Linda Tyer has allocated $8.6 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding to address an issue that has become more prevalent since the COVID-19 pandemic: housing insecurity and homelessness. The allocation will help fund the construction of 37 new permanent supportive housing units and 41 new affordable housing units in the city.
"Throughout our community forums and our surveys and all the conversations that we've had with our community partners, the guidance that we've received from the city's
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Witchcraft Center and Store Opens on North Street By Sabrina Damms,
05:02AM / Monday, July 18, 2022 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Danielle Nichole Munn has opened Witch Slapped, bringing magic to North Street and providing materials, a workshop, a community room, a healing room, and events to anyone willing to learn or experience magic. "Really, the idea is to create community and bonding and education, and allowing a place where people feel safe to be who they are, to wear their incredibly cool witchy gear and to come here and drop off some positive energy or pick it up if they need it," Munn said Since the May 21 opening, Witch Slapped has accumulated 375 sales, not including the ones on Etsy which she has been selling on before the store opened. Her husband 0 Comments
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12th Annual Dalton CRA Softball Wraps UpBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires.com Sports
08:33PM / Sunday, July 17, 2022 | |
 DALTON, Mass. – Of the four age groups at the 12th annual CRA Softball Tournament, just one was won by a team from outside Berkshire County. But even that team had a Berkshires flavor. Drury High School junior Brooke Bishop went 4-for-4 with an RBI triple and three runs scored Sunday to lead the Brunswick, N.Y., Blitz 16-and-under team to an 8-6 win over the Pittsfield-based Mass Destruction in the tournament finale. Bishop said her association with the Troy area team began a couple of summers ago out of necessity. “I used to play for [Adams-Cheshire-Savoy], but two years ago, when COVID happened, they weren’t playing at the time,” Bishop 0 Comments
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Pittsfield American 11s Forced to Go on Road in Sectional Title BidBy Brian Rhodes, iBerkshires.com Sports
08:30PM / Sunday, July 17, 2022 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Pittsfield Little League American Division 11-year-old All-Stars lost its first game of the state sectional tournament on Sunday, losing to Longmeadow in five innings with a score of 3-6. Now, they face a do-or-die game for all the marbles on Monday night. Kydd Kearns was the lone scorer of the first inning for Pittsfield American, scoring a run early in the top of the inning and putting the team up 1-0 to start the game. Longmeadow, however, quickly answered back in the bottom of the first, with the score tied at 1-1 to end the inning. Both teams were scoreless in the second inning, thanks in part to the pitching of Cooper Reed, who struck 0 Comments
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Goodwill Celebrates Grand Re-Opening in Allendale Shopping CenterBy Brittany Polito,
11:41AM / Sunday, July 17, 2022 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Eager shoppers were lined up around the side of Allendale Shopping Center for the Goodwill’s grand opening Saturday morning.
"This child that you see, this beautiful store, a flagship store, it has taken thousands and thousands of hours for us to nurture this child," Senior Director of Supply Chain Management and Territory Expansion Maryam Kamangar said during a ribbon cutting event.
"To get it standing up and be walking to this point that you see here."
The flagship store —located in the former Big Lots— has a retail space that is over four times larger than its previous location next to Jo-Ann Fabrics on Dalton Avenue,
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Pittsfield's ROPE Program Guides Young Women to Success By Sabrina Damms, iBerkshires Staff
07:04AM / Sunday, July 17, 2022 | |
Shirley Edgerton was presented Berkshire United Way's Daniel C. Dillon Helping Hands, Caring Hearts Award earlier this year for her community work. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Shirley Edgerton has been working diligently throughout her career to inspire and support individuals to be their best selves. Her work led to the founding of Rites of Passage and Empowerment, which recently earned its 501(c)3 status further legitimizing its efforts. It is also the recipient of $550,000 in federal American Rescue Plan Act funds through the city of Pittsfield. "Even though we know the work we've been doing, that the community has embraced it over the 11 0 Comments
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2022 State of County Report Reveals Higher Income, More Mental IllnessBy Brittany Polito,
04:04AM / Sunday, July 17, 2022 | |
BERKSHIRE COUNTY, Mass. — The 2022 State of the County Report shows increases in income and a decrease in unemployment but also a worsening of mental illness and family distress.
Over 100 individuals and community organizations in Berkshire County have worked over the last two years to identify indicators that track the region’s performance across eight sectors: Economy, Education, Environment, Government, Health, Housing, Social Environment, and Transportation.
Berkshire Benchmarks, which is an initiative of the Berkshire Regional Planning Commission, was tasked with identifying these sectors and then highlighting indicators within.
The report was released in May and was
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