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A "Protect the Vote" panel at Tyringham Union Church on Sunday examined ways to not only protect Black voters, but to empower them to get involved in the political process.
Heather Bellow
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“I was told that I wouldn’t be able to have children," said one cancer survivor Saturday at the annual Relay For Life of Berkshire County. "I have a 9-year-old girl; [she] keeps me on my toes.”
Heather Bellow
Reporter
The Stockbridge home of Black Revolutionary War patriot Agrippa Hull was moved to its new spot above where it has rested since it was built around 1830.
Heather Bellow
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
Greta Jochem
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A motorcycle rider struck a deer in Cheshire on Sunday afternoon, sustaining minor injuries.
No injuries were reported after a car caught on fire Sunday afternoon on South Street in Pittsfield.
Don't panic, but using a garbage disposal to eliminate kitchen food waste might not be such a great idea. In fact, after 52 years, an Adams bylaw requiring that every new residential unit have a garbage disposal installed in the kitchen sink has been rescinded by voters at the recent Adams Town Meeting.
PITTSFIELD — Several defendants arrested in connection with a police investigation into a drug trafficking operation in Pittsfield and Springfield have either struck, or are heading toward plea deals with prosecutors.
On Sunday, an open swimming team has planned an event to teach all how to swim safely beyond the buoys.
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Ten years ago, the Massachusetts voting public wasn’t ready to support an aid-in-dying ballot referendum measure. Ten years later, it appears …
We have some English words that seem like fossils, yet, like those of us born in the last century, they keep a death grip on life. These words are called “fossil words.”
The Taliban, as you well know, is a militant, fundamentalist movement that favors dark robes, male supremacy and the primacy of religion over …
“The tears of the insane bounce like bullets off my brain.” The words of “Country Joe” McDonald about New York City — where I was, as I like t…
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.
CHICAGO (AP) — A prosecutor has asked a federal judge to sentence Jerry Harris, a former star of the Netflix documentary series “Cheer,” to 15…
In a ruling praised by gun rights advocates, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down New York’s concealed-carry gun licensing law with …
The Massachusetts House took a major step Thursday toward injecting billions of dollars into work on the state's transportation and environmental infrastructure — including $250 million toward a possible east-west rail extension.
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation will be conducting overnight guardrail repair operations on sections of I-90 in Lee, Becket and Otis next week. Drivers who are traveling through the affected areas should expect delays, reduce speed and use caution.
Architect, author and historian Gary Lawrance will give a visual presentation on "Elm Court: Berkshires Estate of Emily Vanderbilt and William Sloane" at 4 p.m. Tuesday, June 28, at Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum.
Dan Brown, Susan Choi, Ayad Akhtar and Henry Louis Gates Jr. are among the featured speakers at The Authors Guild's inaugural WIT: Words, Ideas and Thinkers Festival on Sept. 22-25 at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox. Advance registration is required to save a spot to attend the festival. Session selection will take place later this summer.
A number of area college students have been recognized for their academic achievements.
The joint is truly jumpin’ throughout director/choreographer Jeffrey L. Page’s singular, boldly theatrical treatment of “Ain’t Misbehavin’: The Fats Waller musical,” which opened over the weekend at Barrington Stage Company’s Boyd-Quinson Stage.
The Theater Barn is suspending the remainder of its 2022 season following the last performance on July 3 of its current production, Agatha Christie's “Fiddlers Three.”
BECKET — Celebrating the reopening, after necessary renovations to its main venue, the Ted Shawn Theatre, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival is off…
ADAMS — Four artists working with the Real Eyes Gallery aim to raise $10,000, for the Louison House, through art sales and donations from busi…
In the private universe of her mind, American socialite Florence Foster Jenkins (1868-1944) was a virtuosic opera soprano of epic megastar proportions. In reality she was constantly flat; tone deaf; unable to hold a rhythm or hit the high notes you expect a soprano to be able to hit.
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Aura Whitman, the part-owner of Berkshire Mountain Bakery who also owned and operated the former Cafe Reva in Pittsfield for 11 years, talks about what it takes to be a professional chef.
Tony Dobrowolski
Business writer
Diane M. Austin was recently elected president of the board of directors of the Bidwell House Museum replacing Rob Hoogs, who had served in that position since 2010.
Real estate salesperson Leslie Glenn Chesloff of William Pitt - Julia B. Fee Sotheby’s International Realty’s Great Barrington brokerage has been ranked in the 2022 REAL Trends list of “America’s Best” real estate professionals.
Carol Allman-Morton, an ordained minister, has been named director of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Berkshire Community College
PITTSFIELD — Six dominant wins in the heat over three days.
The Suns gave up five runs before they got an at-bat, and that proved too steep a hill to climb on Saturday night.
This week's Berkshire Woods and Waters column touches on boating under the influence, potential avian flu, the Hoosic River Clean-up and much more.
Quintin and Steve Sumpter are ready to go this weekend. The brothers will be fighting in separate cards at the Road 2 Stardom in Framingham.
The Associated Press tracks down some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals that were shared widely on social media.