A powerful coastal storm is expected to dump as much as 6 inches of snow on the Berkshires, and bring blizzard conditions to metro Boston and surrounding counties in eastern Massachusetts.
Before the museum closes indefinitely on Sunday, we took a look at its collection and just a few of the items that honor and preserve North Ad…
Greta Jochem
Reporter
The Berkshire Arts & Technology Charter Public School ordered staff and students to shelter in place Thursday afternoon as police investig…
AccuWeather.com predicts that the still-developing storm may become a major nor’easter that will bombard eastern and central New England with …
State tops up funding for Greylock Glen project, adding $2.8 million, with May groundbreaking likely
ADAMS — A second major infusion of state funding clears the way for a long-awaited Greylock Glen outdoor recreation center to be built, starti…
Larry Parnass
Investigations editor
Today's Top Headlines
Northern Berkshires
Nine Adams residents and an external consultant soon will embark on a mission to review and modernize town government in Adams, a process that the Select Board believes is long overdue.
Danny Jin
Statehouse reporter
North Adams City Councilor Ashley Shade is seeking to repeal an ordinance dating back to the 1940s that sets a 10 p.m. curfew for minors under the age of 16.
Greta Jochem
Reporter
Residents who wanted to buy homes, including some in North Adams, were "unfairly and deceptively" ensnared into agreements for unaffordable homes in poor condition, the attorney general alleges in a lawsuit.
Greta Jochem
Reporter
After about a year in her position, City Clerk Cathleen King will be leaving her post in mid-February.
Greta Jochem
Reporter
Central Berkshires
An expected Lenox zoning board decision on a major mixed-income housing complex at Brushwood Farm off Pittsfield Road has been delayed at the request of the developer amid negotiations with a neighboring hotel owner.
Jason Smegal, owner of the J Smegal Roofing, is planning to purchase an 8-acre parcel on Brushwood Farm for a new company headquarters and for other professional offices, pending sign-off by the Lenox Planning Board.
The Lee town administrator search committee has narrowed a list of 20 applications to five semi-finalists to be interviewed via Zoom next week. The seven person ad hoc panel plans to have a list of finalists for the Select Board to interview by early February. The board is seeking a replacement for Christopher Ketchen who went back to serving Lenox full time in September.
Dick Lindsay
General reporter
A plan for a restaurant and on-site brewery on a site off the busy state highway known as Pittsfield Road was withdrawn by Lee restaurateur Rob Trask without explanation.
Southern Berkshires
The Southern Berkshire Volunteer Ambulance Squad is asking communities it serves to provide a total of $250,000 through their federal COVID-19 relief grants to help it through difficult times.
Heather Bellow
Reporter
The latest in a series of water woes that has residents clamoring anew.
Heather Bellow
Reporter
STOCKBRIDGE — The Community Preservation Committee will hold a public informational hearing in the Community Room of Town Hall this Wednesday …
The Du Bois Sculpture and Education Project estimates it will need to raise $350,000 for the entire project, which is proposed for the front lawn of the Mason Library.
Felix Carroll
Reporter
EAGLE INVESTIGATION: As state lawmakers pursue nursing home reform, better wages for workers, improved reimbursements for nursing facilities and increased support for alternatives to nursing care are all on the table.
Danny Jin
Statehouse reporter
EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: The people who run Berkshire County's nursing homes agree with their critics that workers need better wages — and the buildings need more staff — to provide a higher quality of care. They disagree on how to achieve this.
Heather Bellow
Reporter
EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: Poor staffing ratios have festered for more than a decade in the majority of Berkshire County nursing facilities, and continue today. Our investigation puts faces to those numbers.
Heather Bellow
Reporter
EAGLE INVESTIGATIONS: Dr. Scott Goffin of Great Barrington, whose office was visited by the FBI in October, performed procedures on Medicare patients at rates significantly higher than other Massachusetts dermatologists. In 2019, he took in more than $1.6 million in Medicare payments.
Francesca Paris
Data and public records reporter
Depending on who you talk to, 2022 is either going to be one of those “this is my year” years, or a cautious minefield to enter if read as “2020, (Part) 2”.
