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MassWildlife: Why you shouldn't feed wildlife| 06:30PM / Saturday, January 20, 2024 | |
Each winter, MassWildlife receives inquiries from the public regarding whether or not to feed wildlife. While people have good intentions, supplemental feeding of wildlife typically does more harm than good. Most wildlife seasonally change their behavior to adapt to cold temperatures and scarce food supplies. Supplemental feeding can alter that behavior and have detrimental, and sometimes fatal, effects. Wildlife in Massachusetts have adapted over thousands of years to cope with harsh winter weather, including deep snow, cold temperatures, and high winds. Supplemental feed sites congregate wildlife into unnaturally high densities, which can: Attract predators and increase risk of 0 Comments
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Gittens' Late Free Throw Lifts MCLA Men| 05:58PM / Saturday, January 20, 2024 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- Quentin Gittens made a free throw with 2 seconds left Saturday to give the MCLA men's basketball team an 87-86 win over Pratt Institute. The Taconic High graduate went 8-for-10 at the line to score 10 points in the win. JoJo Garcia scored 19 to lead MCLA (9-8), which travels to MASCAC foe Worcester State on Wednesday. 0 Comments
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Driscoll Announces $2.8M for Berkshire Communities Hit 2023 FloodingBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
01:34PM / Saturday, January 20, 2024 | |
 BOSTON — Relief is coming to communities hit by flooding last summer, including more than $1 million for North Adams. Ten communities will get a total of $2,785,000 out of the first $10 million of disaster relief funding that had been part of the supplemental budget passed by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Maura Healey in December. Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll announced the first $10 million tranche to 37 communities at the business meeting of the Massachusetts Municipal Association on Saturday. "We know that this is happening more often," she said. "We know that oftentimes when you're hit with flooding, there's these immediate 0 Comments
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Artic Blast to Hit Berkshires| 12:28PM / Saturday, January 20, 2024 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Berkshires will be in the Chill Zone on Saturday night as temperatures are expected to dip as low as 15 degrees below zero. The National Weather Service in Albany, N.Y., has issued a wind chill advisory beginning at 10 p.m. Saturday through 10 a.m. Sunday. The areas affected include all of Berkshire County, parts of the eastern New York Catskills in western Greene and Ulster counties. Temperatures Saturday will be in the teens; the breezy frigid conditions will be dangerously cold. Cold wind chills could result in hypothermia if precautions are not taken, according to NWS, plushe the combination of cold temperatures and 0 Comments
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City Woman Wins Hometown Holidays Gift Basket |
Jonathan Secor had some help in pulling the winning ticket.
Congrats to Janet O'Neill of North Adams who won the big Hometown Holidays gift basket on Thursday. O'Neill won some $1,300 worth of gift certificates and merchandise.
The drawing could be entered by spending $50 downtown during the Thursday night Hometown Holiday events. Jonathan Secor of MCLA Gallery 51 said 62 people had entered the contest (including the editor of iBerkshires &mdash amazing how much cat toys cost nowadays).
Secor contacted O'Neill who was excited and surprised at winning. "No, I'm not kidding," Secor assured her
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