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Hours after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, residents of Pittsfield, and a few visitors, offered mixed views of the decision.
Aina de Lapparent Alvarez
News Reporter
Disbelief, anger, frustration and fear — those were the emotions expressed by Berkshire County residents and elected officials to Friday's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Tony Dobrowolski
Business writer
In the beginning, residents took this view of the state’s planned roundabout: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Others told naysayers to stop fighting progress. It is not quite done. But it is here.
Heather Bellow
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If the Pittsfield City Council votes to pass the budget with changes at its next meeting Tuesday, Mayor Linda Tyer said she will honor them — even though she doesn't have to do that. "I felt they were fair and reasonable and strengthened the budget," she said.
Greta Jochem
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A lawyer for J.C. Chadwell said Friday the 43-year-old did not pull the trigger, naming the shooter who killed Paul Henry as an alleged gang member whose whereabouts are apparently unknown.
Two people were injured Wednesday after a three-vehicle accident on Howland Avenue in Adams.
Showers will be only occasional and mostly light on Monday, but next week will be mostly rain-free as much of Berkshire County lands in the U.S. Drought Monitor’s abnormally dry category.
Special town meeting voters on Thursday approved projects aimed at protecting town assets. The articles were OK’d unanimously, with no questions or comments.
The court's ruling had been expected since a draft opinion leaked in early May, and reaction from Massachusetts, where abortion remains legal under state law, was swift.
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Carol Allman-Morton, an ordained minister, has been named director of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College
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