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Biz Briefs: Gordmans Hiring for Upcoming North Adams Location| 01:29PM / Thursday, January 02, 2020 | |
 Now hiring The North Adams Peebles Department Store, located in the Steeple City Plaza, is converting to a Gordmans off-price store. The apparel and home decor retailer is now hiring with the goal of opening Feb. 18.
Gordmans, which has been delighting shoppers for more than 100 years, is part of the Stage community of stores. Stage is converting its Peebles and other department store name plates to Gordmans in 2020, an off-price concept offering everyone's favorite brands at prices way lower than department stores.
Gordmans offers a variety of positions in an energetic and engaging work environment. Positions, which vary by store location, include store manager, assistant store
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North Adams Happenings: Jan. 1-7| 10:56AM / Thursday, January 02, 2020 | |
 SAVE THE DATE January 11 - Northern Berkshire Youth Hockey League Celebrates 50 Years Highlighted by Boston Bruins Alumni Game!
Northern Berkshire Youth Hockey League (NBYHL) will celebrate 50 years of hockey on January 11th 2020 with a full day of hockey at the Peter W Foote Rink in North Adams. The day will start with our travel team’s taking to the ice to highlighting our current players. The day will end as we welcome back alumni of our program to take on the Boston Bruins alumni at 3:00 p.m. Join us as Bruins greats take to the ice right here in 0 Comments
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North Adams 2019 Year in Review: A Year of ChangeBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
01:24AM / Thursday, January 02, 2020 | |
Police Chief Jason Wood takes the oath of office in a public ceremony at Brayton School. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The year 2019 was marked by change within the city: new leaders, new improvements and investments, and new community initiatives. The year began with a devastating fire that left nearly a dozen people homeless on Jan. 8. Out of that tragedy, a new group arose that has been instrumental in aiding area residents in difficulty. Marilyn Honig's inquiries on Facebook on how to help the victims resulted in the formation of Northern Berkshire Helping Hands, a community resource that's not only linking up people with needs to those with 1 Comment
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North Adams Swears in New Government, Looks to Future PrioritiesBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
02:20PM / Wednesday, January 01, 2020 | |
New City Council President Paul Hopkins oversees the organization of the council for the two-year term. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — North Adams entered the new year — and its 125th anniversary — with a look back at progress over the past term and a call to focus on challenges in the years ahead. "As we renew that challenge for the city of North Adams going into 2020 we will do so by focusing on the priorities that President Johnson laid out in the Great Society address: our city, our countryside, and our classrooms," said Mayor Thomas Bernard in his second inaugural address. The biennial organization of government on 0 Comments
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Youth Center Green Team Make Recycling Ornaments By Jack Guerino, iBerkshires Staff
04:13AM / Tuesday, December 31, 2019 | |
The Green Team is a state-funded initiative to promote recycling and waste reduction by educating students. CHESHIRE, Mass. — The Youth Center Inc.'s Green Team members made ornaments for Northern Berkshire Solid Waste Management District members, commissioners, and vendors. The gifts this year not only graced Christmas trees but offered a simple reminder: recycle. "The kids had a great time, got a better understanding of recycling, separation, and dual stream processes," the waste district's Program Director Linda Cernik said. "We hope what the kids learn they bring home with a better understanding of recycling." Thirteen 1 Comment
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Williams Libraries Receives Collections from Celebrated Poet, Scholar| 01:39AM / Tuesday, December 31, 2019 | |
Scurlock Studios, courtesy Williams College Archives WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Williams Libraries has received collections of books, manuscripts and record albums documenting the life and work of one of America' most influential poets and scholars: Sterling Allen Brown, a Class of 1922 graduate of Williams College.
Brown's family made the donation to the Williams College Archives, where the materials will be preserved, cataloged and made accessible to researchers in Special Collections. The gift includes Brown's personal library, manuscripts, photographs and sound recordings, providing deeper insight into his legacy, especially his devotion to the development of a
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Pittsfield's Plastic Bag Ban Begins With the New Year| 01:44PM / Monday, December 30, 2019 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Single-use plastics will be in short supply beginning New Year's Day. The City Council back in March passed an ordinance that bans use of thin-film plastic bags within the city effective Jan. 1. Pittsfield retail establishments will have to utilize reusable checkout bags, recyclable paper bags, or compostable plastic bags. Thin-film, single-use plastic bags are defined as bags with a thickness of 3 mils or less; those that are thicker are considered reuseable. The ban had been proposed in 2013 through a petition by local attorney Rinaldo Del Gallo and had been working its way through the City Council process for years. It 1 Comment
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New City Council Will Decide Fate of Sullivan School By Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
01:53AM / Monday, December 30, 2019 | |
Cohen, at her final meeting as a councilor, was given a caricature as a going away gift by Council President Keith Bona. An artist, he also gave the other councilors a group drawing at a previous meeting. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The City Council's attempt to finish out some real estate business by the end of the year came to naught on Thursday for a lack of members. The decision to again postpone a vote on Sullivan School was a repeat of the last meeting in November when it was felt there weren't enough votes to pass. The current council is ending its term and had hoped to deal with the issue of Sullivan School before the new City Council 1 Comment
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Rain, Sleet Will Make Icy Mess and Difficult Travel for Monday| 03:29PM / Sunday, December 29, 2019 | |
 A messy mix of rain, sleet and snow is about to fall over the Berkshires, covering the last days of 2019 in an icy sheet that may make travel "impossible," according to the National Weather Service. The NWS office in Albany, N.Y., has posted an ice storm warning for the Berkshires and northern Connecticut from 5 p.m. Sunday into 7 a.m. Tuesday. Significant icing is expected from freezing rain, especially after midnight Sunday night. This icing may cause power outages from tree damage and travel "could be impossible. The hazardous conditions will impact the Monday morning and evening commutes," according to the NWS. The freezing rain 0 Comments
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@theMarket: Will This Year Be Like the Last One for Stocks?By Bill Schmick,
03:58PM / Friday, December 27, 2019 | |
 It is that time of the year when fortune telling becomes a popular past time in the financial markets. Every Wall Street strategist releases their projections for the economy, the markets, and earnings for the New Year. What strikes me about 2020's crop of predictions is their similarity. My own informal survey of analyst's forecasts seems to converge around a 1.8 percent-2.0 percent prediction for economic growth in the U.S. Earnings, for the most part, hover around the unchanged mark, or slightly better. These professional forecasters are looking for no more than average gains in the rate of return (ROR) for stocks based on the equity benchmark index, the S&P 500. What 0 Comments
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Ventfort Hall Plans Trip to See Sargent Charcoals| 03:41PM / Friday, December 27, 2019 | |
 LENOX, Mass. — Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum is offering a day trip to New York for an exclusive viewing of the exhibit titled "John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal" at the Morgan Library & Museum slated for Wednesday, Jan. 8.
This is a rare opportunity to view with an art specialist 53 charcoal portraits by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), America's greatest portrait painter of his time. These drawn works of art represent a substantial, yet often overlooked, part of his practice – they number more than 750 in total - and demonstrate the same sense of immediacy, psychological insight and mastery of light and shade that animate
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The Independent Investor: Investors Ignore ImpeachmentBy Bill Schmick,
04:47PM / Thursday, December 26, 2019 | |
 Abuse of power, obstruction of Congress; these are accusations that ordinarily evoke sharp emotions among Americans. Yet, the financial markets have barely blinked, if they have paid attention at all. Why? The short answer is that investors have done the numbers and calculated that Donald Trump has less than a snowball's chance in hell of being impeached by the U.S. Senate. For those who don't follow the actual political process of impeachment, once the Congress voted to impeach the president, the next step is up to the Senate. They are required to hold a trial to decide whether to remove him from office. A two-thirds majority is required to convict and then remove the 3 Comments
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