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Pittsfield's Fourth of July Parade returned after a two-year hiatus from the COVID-19 pandemic. For those who attended, the parade offered a welcome return to form for Pittsfield, bringing smiling faces together on a nearly flawless morning.
Matt Martinez
News Reporter
The Housatonic River Initiative is urging the Lee Board of Health to hold a public hearing and decide if a planned PCB landfill puts the townspeople and river at risk. However, the board's chair says the panel may not have the authority to act.
Dick Lindsay
General reporter
A new mural by local artist Jesse Tobin McCauley will greet visitors to the city at the Intermodal Center in Pittsfield. The mural was completed in anticipation of the Berkshire Flyer's first trips, slated for July 8.
Matt Martinez
News Reporter
The city’s first modern roundabout, which links Tyler Street and Woodlawn and Dalton avenues in a small circle, opened to traffic eight months ago. While drivers slowly creep through the circle each day, residents still have questions about its design.
Meg Britton-Mehlisch
Pittsfield Reporter
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A parade's easy vibe suggests that COVID-19 is mostly a memory for Pittsfield residents and visitors
Pittsfield residents and visitors feel like the worst of the pandemic is mostly over — and showed it at the city's July 4 parade. Some businesses still notice a slower pace.
Tripping down memory lane at Tanglewood with James Taylor and his All-Star Band is a balm to soothe shattered spirits.
The event, to be held at Town Hall on Labor Day weekend, offers up to 7,000 books donated by area residents; proceeds benefit the Lenox Library Association.
The Lanesborough Police Department responded to a case of larceny from a motor vehicle at the Ashuwillticook Rail Trail parking lot on Sunday morning.
Three city residents were arrested following an investigation into an alleged drug-dealing operation from a Crystal Street home in Pittsfield.
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It’s always a good time to invest in your employees. Giving them more money, whether in the form of a bonus or a raise, may feel like a painful expense when your costs have increased. It would be wise also to consider the pain employees are feeling.
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Pittsfield Mayor Linda Tyer is right: The Wahconah Park grandstand needs to be torn down. Sadly, it is about two decades too late.
The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for a fisherman believed to have fallen overboard from a fishing trawler near Marth's Vineyard. Crewmates of the man contacted the Coast Guard early Friday morning after he disappeared from the Susan Rose, a 77-foot-long fishing vessel based in Point Judith, R.I. Coast Guard cutters and aircraft searched for the man on Friday and Saturday morning in the waters between New Bedford and Martha's Vineyard. On Saturday afternoon the Coast Guard announced it had suspended the search. The missing 54-year-old fisherman has not been identified.
The attorney general’s office and the Baker administration’s public safety arm have spelled out for licensing authorities and law enforcement …
A Massachusetts man has agreed to plead guilty to fraudulently obtaining about $1.2 million in federal loans intended to help businesses struggling because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Federal prosecutors say 59-year-old James Joseph Cohen, of Wenham, between April 2020 and September 2021 submitted six false applications in which he overstated the earnings, the number of employees, and the payroll for two companies he controlled. Prosecutors say he used the money to pay personal and business loans, including for a mortgage and car payments. A date at which he will plead guilty to bank fraud has not yet been scheduled.
Judge rules social media, membership questions inappropriate in police recertification questionnaire
BOSTON — Just days before the deadline for thousands of law enforcement officers to be recertified, a judge has ruled that two of the eight qu…
The Fourth of July will be celebrated Monday with fireworks, parades and other observances.
Lifeguards from the Berkshire Family YMCA will be on duty at Onota Lake, the public beach within Burbank Park, effective Friday, July 1.
Berkshire Humane Society and Haddad Subaru have launched their 10th annual “Choose Your Subaru” car raffle. One lucky winner will have their choice of a 2023 Subaru Crosstrek Limited, Forester Premium or Outback Premium with a value up to $33,000.
The Williams College Museum of Art invites visitors to immerse themselves in new worlds of song, story and dance in a summer program series titled "Immersions." The series opens Thursday, July 7, with Brooklyn-based medieval music ensemble Alkemie.
"Imprinted: Illustrating Race," on view at the Norman Rockwell Museum through the end of October, answers in a sprawling exhibit that covers 400 years of illustrated history with some 300 artworks and objects.
Matthew Neenan’s 2018 dance “A Million Voices” opens the triple bill performed by the Los Angeles-based BODYTRAFFIC at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival this week, reminding us instantly of how terrific this contemporary dance company is.
On Saturday, July 9, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Spencertown Academy Arts Center — located atop a hill near the Village Green in the Spencertown hamlet of rural Austerlitz, N.Y. — will host a free, festive Community Day for all ages. Music, performances, art and historical exhibits offering a glimpse at its storied past are scheduled throughout the day.
In this week’s Pillow Festival program, the EVIDENCE triple bill opens with the long-awaited full premiere of “The Equality of Night and Day.” It’s a quietly stunning work of art, set to an original composition performed live by pianist and composer Jason Moran, and to recordings of excerpted speeches by the social activist Angela Davis.
It’s a time to gather with family and friends for a picnic on the grass, enjoy some wine or a beer, and listen to the sounds of music — cool jazz, swing and soul, Broadway favorites, African rhythms, 60s nostalgia. A time to wander through nature infused with art, with sculptures and whimsical topiary amid the lush plantings.
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ExtraSpecialTeas, a teahouse that employs adults with special needs, is planning to open an outdoor event and dining space at its new location in Housatonic.
Price Chopper/Market 32 is issuing a voluntary manufacturer recall on 16 oz. bottles of Top Care three percent USP hydrogen peroxide.
DALLAS (AP) — The prospect of a takeover of Spirit Airlines threatens to upend the cheap-fare end of the industry much like a series of mergers among big airlines reduced choices for travelers.
The Independence Day Run returned to downtown Pittsfield on Monday for the first time since 2019, traversing 5K along the Fourth of July parade route to an exciting finish at Wahconah Park.
Playing before the largest crowd of the season, 2,327 got to see visiting Brockton score four runs in the top of the seventh inning to break a tie and hand the Pittsfield Suns their third straight loss.
Evan Franz of Tamarack, N.Y., thought it was going to be a good day to meet members of the Brockton Rox who were the children of Boston Red Sox legends he grew up rooting for. Little did he know that the Rox and the Pittsfield Suns put together a surprise at Wahconah Park that included a one-day contract with the Rox and an at-bat against Pittsfield starter Freddy Mosier.
It took three months to gather a staff and recruit players, but earlier this month, new UMass basketball coach Frank Martin went online to discuss the incoming class of Minutemen. UMass has five transfers and two freshman coming in to play this winter.
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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