Potential unified school district still a prime topic for county education task force

DALTON — A Berkshire County group is ramping up its efforts to improve the quality of education in local schools as enrollment continues to decline.The Berkshire County Education Task Force …

EPA to review cleanup of former disposal site LANESBOROUGH — A one-acre former disposal site on Balance Rock Road that once served as a dumping ground for General Electric is one of 14 Superfund sites in Massachusetts that are required to …

Victim ID'd in fatal Mass Turnpike crash

Making the Album with The Whiskey Treaty Roadshow

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LOCAL NEWS

On the 140th anniversary of the first F. W. Woolworth store, a look back at its Berkshire footprint On Feb. 22, 1879, Frank W. Woolworth opened his first store, "Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store," in Utica, N.Y. The store saw limited success and closed within months, but that didn't deter the …

No bail for man charged with leading Pittsfield police on foot chase while carrying stolen gun

North Adams man charged with stealing, reselling paintings

Richmond, West Stockbridge agree to share town administrator

Pittsfield mayor looks to help homeowners spruce up exteriors

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Harry Potter Holiday

Big Y in Adams to close follow up

Pleasant Valley February Camp

On the pottery wheel at IS 183

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Lee: Community Access to the Arts exhibit opening

Lenox: Concert, supper to benefit music fund

Adams: Mardi Gras benefit for Haiti Plunge

Pittsfield: MLK interfaith day of service

Stockbridge: 'A Two of Harps' to perform

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Williams-Amherst rivalry tips off for third time this season as programs collide in NESCAC semifinals

Saturday will mark the 226th time Williams and Amherst have met on a basketball court. On the line will be a spot in the NESCAC Tournament championship game Sunday.These historic rivals will play in …

Roundup: Taconic girls wrap regular basketball slate with road win

Pittsfield boys basketball D's up late to beat Wahconah in Dalton

Drury girls basketball denies Mount Greylock postseason bid

Carpenter crosses 2,000 points, as Mount Everett girls basketball pushes by Lee

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Howard Herman | Designated Hitter

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

Howard Herman | Designated Hitter: New UMass football coach Walt Bell talks recruiting, weather and an uptempo pace

Howard Herman | Designated Hitter: Breaking down the Patriots-Rams matchup

MIKE WALSH | THE POWDER REPORT

Mike Walsh | Powder Report: Preaching context in face of outrage towards Jiminy Peak

Mike Walsh | Powder Report: Berkshire East's skiing immaculate, and surrounding area quickly shaping up to be

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Letter: Be wary of US starting Venezuelan civil war To the editor:The criminals in Washington don't sleep. They are working at regime change again! This time in Venezuela, in direct violation of international law.Venezuela has the world's second …

Letter: Trump has found his path to dictatorship

Letter: Trump's hate speech translates to violence

Letter: Mohawk as education center for Holocaust

Letter: County music group has idea for Mohawk

Steve Nelson: Medicare-for-all will hurt seniors

Clellie Lynch: Golden owlets of 2019

Podcast | Don Morrison commentary: Life under the emergency

Francis Moriarty: Trump seeks a useful enemy

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

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Our Opinion: Specifics will keep Blueprint off shelf

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Chan Lowe: The skills of yore are scarce this Yule

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Gypsy Layne Cabaret & Co. offers burlesque with a bit of cheek PITTSFIELD — At the 10x10 Upstreet Arts Festival, the annual 10-day revival of the Pittsfield arts scene during the dead of winter, Gypsy Layne Cabaret & Co.'s performances have contributed …

Singer-songwriter Annie Lennox bringing art installation to Mass MoCA in May Berkshire Eagle staffNORTH ADAMS — Eurythmics co-founder, singer-songwriter Annie Lennox, is coming to to Mass MoCA this spring with "Annie Lennox: Now I Let You Go...," an installation of …

Dump those winter blahs with a tuneful datenight

THURSDAYEDITOR'S PICKEnjoy an evening of bluegrass by Grant Gordy and the Brooklyn Acoustic Allstars, at Race Brook Lodge, 7 to 11 p.m., 864 South Undermountain Road, Sheffield. Race Brook previews: …

Kids in the kitchen: School vacation snacking

Bits & Bites: Library benefit, film and tea on tap this week

Akram Khan brings 'XENOS' to Williams College WILLIAMSTOWN — Akram Khan Company is scheduled to perform "XENOS," a portrait of an Indian dancer whose skilled body becomes an instrument of war, 8 p.m. Thursday at Williams College's '62 …

In Barrington Stage Company's '10X10 Plays,' good things do, indeed, come in small packages PITTSFIELD — L.H. Grant's "Double Entendre," the first of the 10 short plays in Barrington Stage Company's richly entertaining eighth edition of "The 10X10 Plays" is set, the playwright says, …

The Oscars are ready for their close-up

Sunday's Oscar telecast can't come soon enough for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which has been periodically shooting itself in the foot in the run-up to its annual awards …

Iraqi rapper gives angry youth in Basra a music outlet BASRA, Iraq — A youth-led protest movement in the southern Iraqi port city of Basra, which saw riots last summer over failing services and soaring unemployment, has found an artistic outlet in …

People: Clooney among Markle's baby shower gang

'Arctic' is not your average survival story

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THEATER

At Town Players of Pittsfield, 'New and Used' feels more shopworn and discarded PITTSFIELD — I'm not sure the world needs another stage adaptation of a Jane Austen work, especially "Pride and Prejudice," but we have one anyway thanks to Pacific Northwest playwright Gay …

Chester Theatre Company seiects first recipient of new-play initiative

WAM Theatre launching Elder Ensemble; members sought

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

Audiences take a spin with Shakespeare this weekend in Lenox

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