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The 2022 Lee High School Prom was held at the Berkshire Hills Country Club on Friday, May 27.
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VERDICT: The man who shot and grievously injured a Cheshire man in 2018 was found guilty Friday of armed assault with intent to murder, and other charges, by a Berkshire Superior Court jury.
Amanda Burke
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Berkshire Mountain Distillers pays homage to 15 Berkshire cultural institutions with specially crafted cocktails. The Cultural Cocktails program launches over Memorial Day weekend, as part of the distillery's 15 anniversary celebration.
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The St. Joseph Cemetery Commission is about to dedicate 16 new stained-glass windows installed in a mausoleum at the Pittsfield cemetery, thanks to a Great Barrington company and anonymous donor.
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The City Council voted 6-4 to ask Mayor Linda Tyer to increase the amount of free cash that will be directed towards reducing the tax rate next fiscal year in recognition of the lean economic times facing most city residents.
Gov. Charlie Baker on Friday vetoed a bill making immigrants without legal status eligible to seek state-issued driver’s licenses, saying the Registry of Motor Vehicles, an agency that he oversees, doesn’t have the ability to verify the identities of potential applicants.
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MCLA Arts and Culture will host an artist talk and book signing with photographer Lydia Panas from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, June 3, at MCLA Gallery 51 on Main Street. A screening of Panas’ work will follow from 9 to 10 p.m. at Mass MoCA.
Berkshire Mountain Distillers pays homage to 15 Berkshire cultural institutions with specially crafted cocktails. The Cultural Cocktails program launches over Memorial Day weekend, as part of the distillery's 15 anniversary celebration.
On its surface, Arlene Hutton’s gentle, unassuming play, “Last Train to Nibroc,” is a boy-meets-girl love story that begins on a crowded train in the winter of 1940 and ends in the spring of 1943 on a porch in rural Kentucky. Simple … and, at the same time, as complex as the lives of Hutton’s characters, May and Raleigh, played by Elisheva Novella and Clayton Rardon in director Sky Vogel’s earnest, if less than fully satisfying production at Ghent Playhouse.
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Cam Stockton has been promoted to program director of the Boys & Girls Club of the Berkshires in Pittsfield.
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