Franklin County sheriff finds space to provide women with addiction treatment equal to men

GREENFIELD — Bring the women home. That's the message a sheriff heard around Franklin County after he built a drug treatment program for incarcerated men. It prompted a big change.After years …

Database will help eliminate twists, turns in trying to find plots at Williamstown cemeteries WILLIAMSTOWN — Time was, finding the resting place of a deceased friend or family member at one of the three town cemeteries would entail some significant sleuthing.The process would begin with …

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LOCAL NEWS

Clarence Fanto: 'Green New Deal' needs a 2.0 version reboot LENOX — "Green New Deal." It's a plan with a catchy slogan conjured up by two articulate co-sponsors in Congress, and it appeals to climate-change-concerned citizens as well as progressives …

Daniel Pearl Berkshire Scholarship doubles; scholarship to music school added

Teen's destiny altered by sports concussion

Hinds to GE: It's time to make good on Housatonic River

Another suspect in reservoir shooting charged with witness intimidation

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Pittsfield: Medicaid guidance dinner seminar

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LOCAL SPORTS

From Berkshires, family and friends watch Mikaela Shiffrin win 4th World Championship gold

LANESBOROUGH — Mikaela Shiffrin never fails to make Berkshire County skiers, and her family, proud. The 23-year-old Alpine skier won an unprecedented 4th world championship in Sweden on …

Williams men beat Trinity on the hardwood, advance to NESCAC semifinal

Roundup: Gill, Rudzinskas wrap Nordic season with wins; Lenox girls secure spot in Western Mass. D IV Tournament

Howard Herman | Designated Hitter: Examining UMass star Makar's spot in Minutemen all-time pantheon

Berkshire County local bowling and youth hockey results

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Howard Herman | Designated Hitter: Asking a former Pittsfield Sun about college teammate Kyler Murray's upcoming pro decision

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Letter: 'Emergency' declaration from wanna-be dictator To the editor:The president said in so many words that he didn't have to declare an emergency, but he did it because it was "faster." He himself stated in those words that his action is one of …

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Letter: Cost of new WRHS worries senior resident

Lettter: Waiting for Neal to sign onto Green New Deal

Robert F. Jakubowicz: Trump building wall on series of lies

Judy Waters: Pullman Porters' movement reached the Berkshires

Lauren R. Stevens: This Greylock Glen plan may reach summit

Andrew L. Pincus: A brother after all

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The lure of the trail FLORIDA — "Nick, are you going to start rounding 'em up?"Florida Mountaineers Secretary Tim Keating was hovering over a deck of cards and a slow cooker filled with pulled pork when he asked his …

Da Vinci is on the move at the Berkshire Museum PITTSFIELD — To say that Leonardo da Vinci was a visionary is an understatement that nevertheless helps explain why, hundreds of years after his death, the world continues to discuss his …

'Has the boy lost his senses?': When George Denison Morgan married the geisha Yuki Kato

LENOX —"Could anything be more unexpected? Word of his son's marriage to the geisha Yuki Kato had just reached George Hale Morgan when a reporter had tracked down the part-time Lenox resident in New York City to get his reaction to the news.

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Pilobolus sees dance through the lens of nature GREAT BARRINGTON — They swing like saplings — roll and lift and orbit. Six dancers blend into three creatures, four-armed like dancing Shivas. They are wearing spare clothing the colors …

Trust runs amok in 'Red Maple' at Capital Repertory Theatre ALBANY, N.Y. — For all the secrets that abound in David Bunce's wildly uneven comedy, "Red Maple" — which is being given a hell-bent, go-for-broke, emotionally raucous world premiere at …

Indie rock fans find comfort in Car Seat Headrest

Thomas Christopher | Be-A-Better-Gardener: Cold Framing 101

At Town Players of Pittsfield, 'New and Used' feels more shopworn and discarded

Chester Theatre Company seiects first recipient of new-play initiative

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ENTERTAINMENT

Glenn Close's Oscar moment may be here at last

NEW YORK — Glenn Close stands doubled over laughing in the doorway to her downtown Manhattan apartment while her loyal white Havanese, Pip, circles an arriving reporter.It's star time for both. …

Girls rule in mesmerizing 'Alita: Battle Angel' Alita is just like a typical teenage girl. She loves chocolate, breaks curfew and crushes on a bad boy with floppy hair, a leather jacket and a motorcycle. But Alita isn't typical in other ways. For …

The rom-com is alive and well in 'Isn't It Romantic'

2018 a good year for diversity in Hollywood, study shows

People: Abramson book sales sluggish in first week

THEATER

WAM Theatre launching Elder Ensemble; members sought LENOX — WAM Theatre is seeking eight women over the age of 65 to participate in its first Elder Ensemble performance group. Led by WAM teaching artists Amy Brentano and Talya Kingston, the …

Looking for love on Berkshire Theatre Group's stages this summer

Audiences take a spin with Shakespeare this weekend in Lenox

Uma Thurman highlights a 2019 Williamstown Theatre Festival season

Shakespeare & Company's Tina Packer wins prestigious lifetime achievement award

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