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Housatonic Boys Strong at North Adams Youth Basketball TourneyiBerkshires.com Sports,
09:15AM / Tuesday, February 21, 2017 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- Housatonic took home two titles from this weekend's John Gaudreau Memorial Youth Basketball Tournament. Housatonic beat the Boys Club in the boys third- and fourth-grade final and topped Adams in the boys seventh/eigth grade final. The South County program also reached the title game in the fifth/sixth grade bracket, where the Dalton Blue team prevailed to take the title. In the third/fourth grade girls competition, host North Adams defeated the Girls Club in Monday's championship game. The Greylock seventh/eighth team advanced to the quarter-finals, where they were edged by Adams, 54-52, in a game where Carson Meczywor scored 33 0 Comments
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Adams, North Adams Softball Leagues Partner UpBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires.com Sports
04:29AM / Tuesday, February 21, 2017 | |
 A partnership between two North County youth softball leagues will open up competitive opportunities for their “house” leagues and a world of opportunities beyond. The Adams Lassie League and Northern Berkshire Softball have entered an agreement that will allow teams from each league to play against one another this spring. And Adams’ charter with Babe Ruth Softball will allow the leagues to contribute players to newly formed teams eligible to compete for chances to play in the Babe Ruth World Series. The new partnership in part revives an old arrangement that saw North Adams and Adams teams play against one another, Lassie League board member Gary Puppolo 3 Comments
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North Adams Looks at Shorter Bike Trail ProjectBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
03:59AM / Tuesday, February 21, 2017 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The city is still hoping to hook up to the planned bike path that will run through Williamstown, albeit in a truncated fashion.
"What we're kind of doing here is replacing the whole idea of designing a portion of the bike path from the Spruces to MoCA," Mayor Richard Alcombright told the City Council last week. "That kind of fell by the wayside over the last year."
North Adams had been working with the Berkshire Regional Planning Commission to develop a trail that would run from the Williamstown line through Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art to Western Gateway Heritage State Park. The trail was part of a much larger vision of
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Berkshires Beat: Bad Weather Doesn't Stop Lenox Robotics Team| 09:37AM / Monday, February 20, 2017 | |
 Way to go: When Lenox High School's robotics team, Team Enginuity, canceled its field trip to the First Technology Challenge qualifier in Dedham, Mass., on Feb. 11 because of bad weather, two students persevered.
Ella King, senior and founder of Team Enginuity, received a group text between runs at a FIS Giant Slalom Race at Sugarbush Mountain in Vermont that her team was not going to the robotics meet. She knew this qualifier was the last one before the state championship and it would be critical for the team to attend. She called her dad, who was still in Lenox, and asked him to pick up the robot from school. The family's plan was to meet on the eastern side of the state
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Berkshire Scenic Releases Strong Ridership Numbers For Inaugural YearBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
06:16AM / Monday, February 20, 2017 | |
The railway is a volunteer-run organization that offers rides through the summer and fall in North Adams. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Some 9,600 passengers rode the rails between North Adams and Adams during the Hoosac Valley Service's freshman year.
The 8-mile ride from the city to Renfrew and back in a restored 1955 Budd car kicked off in October 2015 with a few pilot rides. It returned for a few more in December and then went full speed ahead on Memorial Day weekend last year. The nearly 10,000 passengers is more than the Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum carried during its first year in its old home of Lenox, according to President Jay Green.
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BMC Rebuilt Surgical Residency Program Earns New AccreditationBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
06:36AM / Sunday, February 19, 2017 | |
Dr. Michael DiSiena worked to revamp the residency program, which received a new accreditation last month. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — It was 2014 when news came down that Berkshire Medical Center was losing most of its surgical residency program. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education pulled its accreditation and with it, a large part of the surgical unit's identity was going to change. The pool of residents shipped off to other hospitals and universities, dropping the total number of residents from around 15 to just two. The program head resigned. Things were looking bleak and no matter what, the hospital had to find a way to 3 Comments
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Pittsfield Officer to Carry Torch in Austria For Special Olympics World GamesBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
06:39AM / Saturday, February 18, 2017 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The job of a police officer means dealing with people on their worst days, day after day. And it wears on the officers. Eight years ago, Officer Darren Derby started getting involved with the Law Enforcement Torch Run fundraising efforts for the Special Olympics. He's raised more than a half-million dollars in support of those athletes. He does it because he feels those athletes do more for him than he could ever do for them. They give him a joy that gets torn away from officers on a daily basis dealing with the worst of the worst. "The job itself brings a tremendous amount of stress. A lot us wonder 'is this the right job for us, 9 Comments
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'The Oscar Picks: Betrayed': The Great Goldberger Squirrel Conspiracy of 2017By Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
05:20PM / Friday, February 17, 2017 | |
 OK, maybe the Academy Award leak previously alleged to exist, the one the squirrels in my back yard either engineered or facilitated and which allowed me to successfully predict a good percentage of last year's Oscar winners, indeed exists. But first a little backstory for those unfamiliar with the bushy-tailed adventures of the Goldberger Squirrels.
Thankful for the assorted nuts I've occasionally thrown on the lawn to ensure their strength and safety against neighboring squirrels and other varmints who would illegally cross property lines to take what is rightfully theirs, last year the Goldberger Squirrels showed their loyalty with a bold act. Braving the gridlock caused by the
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@theMarket: Danger ZoneBy Bill Schmick,
04:06PM / Friday, February 17, 2017 | |
Something new is happening to the stock market, it has actually had two negative days in a row. That doesn't mean much after weeks of gains, but it just may signal a temporary halt to the Trump Rally.
My short-term target in this Trump-inspired rally was achieved this week. The benchmark index, the S&P 500, not only reached 2,330 (my target) this week, but went beyond it. The S&P 500 kept on climbing, reaching an intra-day, record-setting high of 2,351.31 on both Wednesday and Thursday. The index has subsequently fallen back but not by much.
The Dow, NASDAQ, the small-cap Russell 2000 Index, plus a slew of other averages also reached record highs. Make no mistake,
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Superior Court Briefs: Feb. 14 - Feb. 16Staff Reports,
01:36PM / Friday, February 17, 2017 | |
 Cases heard before Judge John Agostini on Tuesday, Feb. 14. George Chapman, 31, of Springfield pleaded guilty to single counts of possession of heroin with intent to distribute and conspiracy to violate drug laws. He was ordered to serve concurrent two and a half years at the Berkshire County House of Correction. The charges stem from the execution of a search warrant at 66 Angeli Street in North Adams on August 6, 2015. Derrick King, 39, of Pittsfield had not guilty pleas entered on his behalf on three counts of improper storage of a firearm, three counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, three counts of illegal ownership of a firearm, two 0 Comments
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North Adams Will Know Small Business Voting Results Next WeekStaff Reports, iBerkshires Staff
03:21AM / Friday, February 17, 2017 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — It's all over but the counting for five communities hoping to become this year's Small Business Revolution - Main Street winner. The city's weeklong push to collect as many votes as possible toward the $500,000 economic development boost ended at midnight on Thursday. Five municipalities across the nation were trying their best to reach out to every resident, visitor, celebrity, official and sympathizer they could find to get as much support as possible. Next Wednesday, Deluxe Corp. will announce the winner of the second season of the Small Business Revolution — and which community will get technical aid, 0 Comments
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Berkshire Delegation Gets Committee AssignmentsStaff Reports, iBerkshires Staff
01:22AM / Friday, February 17, 2017 | |
 BOSTON — State House leaders have released committee assignments for this session, with the Berkshire delegation picking up two chairmanships in the House and one in the Senate. Newly elected State Sen. Adam Hinds, D-Pittsfield, was named Senate chairman of the Joint Committee on Tourism, Arts and Cultural Development, as well as Senate vice chairman of the Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies. He is also a member of the Joint Committees on Higher Education; Housing; Mental Health, Substance Abuse and Recovery; Municipalities and Regional Government; and Intergovernmental Affairs. Hinds is also the Senate co-chair of the Rural Caucus 0 Comments
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