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Todd Poulton, a.k.a. The Champ, is opening a boxing academy for Pittsfield kids. The gym, housed in the Berkshire Nautilus, is meant to be a safe space for youth in the city who need more places to go.
Local plumbers say they expect to have their hands full over the coming days with calls of frozen and broken pipes and weak or no heat — especially in the county’s older homes. Here's how to keep things warm and toasty indoors.
Meg Britton-Mehlisch
Pittsfield Reporter
Be on the lookout, it's pothole season in the Berkshires. Have you seen any nasty ones out there? Let us know about it here.
Additional SNAP benefits from the federal government are set to end March 2, giving Berkshire County food pantries just enough time to prepare for an influx of new families to serve. Leaders at the South Congregational Church in Pittsfield say heightened numbers are nothing new.
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The big game is coming up fast and we're already planning our snacks and appetizers selection. No matter what happens on the field, there can only be one winner at the party: Who has the best wings in Berkshire County?
In a series of unanimous votes, the Select Board affirmed the site plan met requirements of the town’s zoning bylaw and set 10 conditions on the special permit. The plan by Construct Inc. of Great Barrington will create the development at the 20-acre property, known as the Cassilis Farm off Hartsville-New Marlborough Road.
A mass of cold air that descended over the Berkshires Friday and Saturday set record-breaking lows for the region.
Video from customers inside the store at the time shows dark water pouring from the ceiling near the entrance to the building. An employee can be heard on the intercom asking customers to leave the Stop & Shop.
Windrose Place, with all required town permits, would include renovation of the 1790 Northrup House, two new residential buildings and a retail building, all in the heart of the downtown village.
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If you take Ukrainian officials at their word, Russia this summer could face Crimean War II.
Grammar columnist Curtis Honeycutt says: "In an effort to have better grammar, we can often make it worse."
Eagle columnist Dalton Delan writes: "Here’s my nightmare scenario, and my moonlit dream scenes have an unfortunate habit of becoming daytime reality."
(Overheard in a Congressional backroom sometime in the near future.)
Actress Jennifer Coolidge is being celebrated as Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals 2023 Woman of the Year. Coolidge won Emmy and Golden Globe awards for portraying Tanya McQuoid-Hunt in the acclaimed HBO series “The White Lotus.” Coolidge will be honored Saturday with a parade through Harvard Square, followed by a roast when she will be presented her Pudding Pot award. Hasty Pudding Theatricals is the oldest theatrical organization in the nation and one of the oldest in the world. Since 1951, it has bestowed this award annually on women “who have made lasting and impressive contributions to the world of entertainment.”
The Arctic air that descended on the Northeast has brought dangerously cold sub-zero temperatures and wind chills to the region. That includes a record-setting wind chill of minus 108 degrees Fahrenheit on the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire. The Mount Washington Observatory at the peak of the Northeast’s highest mountain, famous for its extreme weather conditions, also recorded an actual temperature of minus 47 and tying an observatory record set in 1934. Across the rest of the region, wind chills — the combined effect of wind and cold air on exposed skin — dropped to as low as minus 45 to minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit on Saturday.
There will be something for everyone at Tanglewood this summer. The Boston Symphony Orchestra announced Wednesday that the 2023 season will feature the traditional performcaes by the BSO and the Boston Pops, dozens of new performers, conductors, and composers, and the crowd-pleasing popular artist series. The season starts on June 22 and runs until late August. The popular artist series features two performances by James Taylor and his All-Star Band, including one on the Fourth of July, and an episode of “Wait Wait ... Don’t Tell Me!” NPR’s irreverent news quiz show. Tickets go on sale March 9.
WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) _ Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (TMO) on Wednesday reported fourth-quarter profit of $1.58 billion.
The Berkshire Botanical Garden is registering for Landscape Design II, a 10-week course meeting from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursdays, Feb. 9 to April 13, in-person at BBG.
Novelist Maggie Anton will discuss her latest book, "The Choice: A Novel of Love, Faith, and the Talmud," as part of Jewish Literary Voices, a Jewish Federation of the Berkshires program in collaboration with The Jewish Book Council.
Singer Sherri James Buxton, accompanied by pianist Bob Shepherd, will perform a Valentine cabaret on Sunday, Feb. 12, at Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum.
Flying Cloud Institute and Greenagers will hold a science and art exploration program during the February school break for children ages 7 to 13 years.
With these 30 acres, Tamarack Hollow now preserves a stretch of 62 acres along the whole of the northern border of Notchview — 3,000 acres held by the Trustees of Reservations — and a central tract of a high-elevation wetland surrounded by the Savoy and Eugene Moran Wildlife Management areas.
Taking time to focus on your emotional, mental and physical wellbeing isn't selfish, it's self care. Prioritizing that self care, if even for a few minutes a day can make the difference. And despite what the latest social media influencer is telling you, the path to your "healthiest self" doesn't come in a "one-size-fits-all package."
For her exhibition, “Hot Corners” at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Yoes has created a series of installations inspired by the lush décor and vintage feel of "period rooms."
J. Peter Bergman directs playwright Arthur Laurents’ “Invitation to a March” at Ghent Playhouse
"Fun Home" has an eight-performance two-weekend run, Feb. 3 to 12, at Hubbard Hall in Cambridge, N.Y.
The long-vacant lot at the corner of South and Reed streets in downtown Pittsfield isn’t looking so empty these days. Lee Bank’s newest branch…
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The warehouse that housed the former Shire City Herbals was purchased at auction Wednesday. The decision to sell the warehouse also affected two tenants, Berkshire Organics and Hosta Hill.
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Denise Markonish has been promoted to chief curator at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the first person to hold this position in the museum’s nearly 25-year history.
Chef Jeremy Rock Smith, who has worked at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health and Canyon Ranch, has been named culinary camp director at Berkshire Hills Culinary Camp.
Stephanie McNair, the manager of William Pitt Sotheby’s International Realty’s two Berkshire brokerages, has been named the company’s 2022 Manager of the Year.
The Minutemen gave up 93 points at the Mullins Center Saturday afternoon.
After the pandemic and parity knocked the Spartans for a loop in recent years, coach Jill Svirida's teams finished off an unbeaten winter season in pools across Berkshire County.
Eagle sports columnist Howard Herman is wistfully remembering the days of the Berkshire North boys' basketball battles. Last Monday's overtime win by Pittsfield over Wahconah brought those memories flooding back.
In this week's Berkshire Woods and Waters, Gene Chague talks a record season for deer hunting in Massachusetts, and details a bunch of local ice fishing derbies.
The Associated Press tracks down some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals that were shared widely on social media.
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A tribute to those we have lost, September - November 2022
The best of the best of Berkshire County, chosen by Berkshire Eagle readers
1Berkshire presents the official guide to the 66th Annual Fall Foliage Parade.
The annual guide to preparing your home for the coming New England winter.
Berkshire Community College presents an annual roundup of forty young leaders making a difference in Berkshire County.
Embrace warmer weather with the Berkshire Eagle's guide to backyard improvement.
