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Nolan, Rumbolt Earn All-League Honors at MCLA| 09:38AM / Thursday, May 31, 2018 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- MCLA baseball players Logan Rumbolt and Liam Nolan were named to the All MASCAC team as announced by the league offices. Rumbolt (North Adams, Drury), a sophomore, was a first team utility player, while Nolan (Pittsfield, Taconic) was tabbed as a second team selection as a pitcher. The honors are the first for each respective player during their careers at MCLA. Westfield State swept the major awards as Anthony Crowley was selected as the MASCAC player of the year and John Gegetskas was tabbed the Pitcher of the Year. Westfield State head coach Nathan Bashaw earned the Coach of the Year honor. The MASCAC rookie of the year went to John Teehan of the 0 Comments
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Clarksburg Passes Fiscal 2019 Budget, Local TaxesBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
10:14PM / Wednesday, May 30, 2018 | |
Town Moderator Bryan Tanner, Town Clerk Carol Jammalo and Town Administrator Carl McKinney clarify an item in the town budget before the vote. CLARKSBURG, Mass. — Town meeting on Wednesday night easily passed a $4.2 million spending plan for fiscal 2019. The 53 voters in attendance worked through some 17 articles over an hour and 20 minutes, passing every one of them and raising only a few questions. The longest discussion was related to appropriations from the sewer enterprise fund and had to do with ratepayers having to pick up the slack from delinquent payments. The school budget was approved at $2,409,566, down about $40,000 from this year. The assessment 1 Comment
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Fairie Festival Drumming Up Enthusiasm for Annual EventBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:18PM / Wednesday, May 30, 2018 | |
The reading was followed by painting colorful rocks, all part of the outreach program for the upcoming Berkshire Mountains Fairie Festival in June. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The audience was small but its members rapt as Kristen DeMeo read her book "The Garden Fairies" at the Williams Bookstore on Saturday morning. The reading, along with some painting activity, is part of a push to get fairies front and center this spring in anticipation of the third annual Berkshire Mountains Faerie Festival on June 16 at the Adams Agricultural Fairgrounds. Gail Sellers, adorned in a woodsy tiara with butterflies, said the organization is reaching into the 0 Comments
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Free Fun Fridays Coming Back for 10th Season| 09:35AM / Wednesday, May 30, 2018 | |
 A record 100 cultural venues across Massachusetts will open their doors for free on Fridays this summer, marking the 10th anniversary of Free Fun Fridays, funded by the Highland Street Foundation to offer visitors no-cost access to museums, theaters, historic sites, archives and treasured collections.
Free Fun Fridays 2018 will take place for 10 consecutive Fridays — beginning June 29 and continuing through August 31 — with 100 venues welcoming visitors in a free-of-charge public celebration of culture and history that is unprecedented outside of the national museums in Washington, D.C.
Over the course of the past decade, the Newton-based Highland Street
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Pulmonary Specialist Joins BMC Physician Practice| 09:31AM / Wednesday, May 30, 2018 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Health Systems has announced the appointment of Dr. Julio Miranda, a board- certified and fellowship-trained pulmonary and critical care specialist to the medical staff of Berkshire Medical Center and the physician staff of Pulmonary Professional Services of BMC.
Dr. Miranda is accepting new patients in need of Pulmonary Care and is partnered with doctors Hafez Alsmaan, Kashif Aslam, Cynthia Callahan, Twinkle Chandak, Daniel Doyle, Michael Mortelliti and Jack Ringler, physician assistant Colleen Halvorsen Sinclair and registered nurse Rebecca Schaffrick at Pulmonary Professional Services of BMC.
Miranda is board-certified in internal medicine, critical
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Saving for Education? Consider a 529 Plan| 09:00AM / Wednesday, May 30, 2018 | |
 Do you know about 529 savings plans? If not, you are not alone – although these plans have been around since 1996, many people are still unaware of them. And that's unfortunate, because a 529 plan can be a valuable tool for anyone who wants to help a child, grandchild, friend or other family member save for education expenses.
Here are some of the key benefits of a 529 plan:
* Potential tax advantages: A 529 plan's earnings are not subject to federal income taxes, as long as withdrawals are used for qualified elementary, secondary and higher education expenses of the designated beneficiary, such as your child or grandchild. (You will be subject to ordinary income taxes,
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Cemetery With Clarksburg's Namesake Restored & RevealedBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
02:40AM / Wednesday, May 30, 2018 | |
Nicholas Clark's 200-year-old tombstone has worn away making it difficult to read the lettering. CLARKSBURG, Mass. — Nicholas Clark's been resting on a knoll above Horrigan Road, and a stone's throw from his home, for more than 200 years. He hasn't been alone — some four dozen of his relatives and in-laws are interred around him. But the Clark family cemetery has been little noticed since the last Clark was buried there nearly 90 years ago. That's changed since a group of volunteers have cleaned up and restored leaning and shattered stones. And a sign now notes where the town's namesake was buried in 8 Comments
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Boucher Wins Write-in for Clarksburg Select BoardBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
10:26PM / Tuesday, May 29, 2018 | |
 CLARKSBURG, Mass. — The Select Board will have a full complement this year after Ronald Boucher won write-in victory for a three-year term. Only 110 ballots were cast in the annual town election on Tuesday, less than 10 percent of registered voters in the town. However, it took about an hour to count all the ballots because of the high number of write-ins, said Town Clerk Carol Jammalo. Boucher is a new resident, having moved to Clarksburg last summer from North Adams. He does have plenty of experience in local government — he served eight terms on the City Council, including as chairman, and spent a number of years as an appointed member of the 0 Comments
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Elementary, Secondary Teachers Highlighted at Williams College's Olmsted BreakfastBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
02:56PM / Tuesday, May 29, 2018 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — As a Harvard Ph.D. in atomic physics, a fellow in the American Physical Society and, currently, interim president of arguably the nation's top liberal arts college, Tiku Majumder has accomplished a lot. But at some level, he is still trying to satisfy his high school English teacher. "For me, as totally a math/science kid from fairly early on, admittedly, surprisingly the teacher I think about more than any other is my high school English teacher," Majumder said Tuesday morning at the annual William College breakfast honoring recipients of the college's Olmsted Awards for Faculty and Curricular Development. "Mrs. Soffer taught 0 Comments
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Great Barrington Stays Perfect in Berkshire Adult Baseball League| 08:34PM / Monday, May 28, 2018 | |
 ADAMS, Mass. -- Scott McFarland homered and drove in three runs, and Mickey Kammeyer had a pair of doubles to lead the Great Barrington Millers to a 12-7 over the Knights as the Millers stayed unbeaten in the Berskshire Adult Baseball League. The Millers improved to 3-0 to stay atop the 20-year-old division of the league. Housatonic also stayed perfect in the 20-year-old division, beating BBA, 3-1, to move to 2-0 on the season. Jared Habershaw threw four shutout innings, striking out seven, to earn the win on the mound. Cornerstone defeated Lenox, 8-5, to take over third place in the division. Jeff Fields hit a bases-loaded double to drive in three runs in the 0 Comments
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Memorial Day Brings Reminders of Sacrifice, ObligationsStaff Reports, iBerkshires Staff
05:29PM / Monday, May 28, 2018 | |
Applause for World War II veteran Frank Lazarczyk of Cheshire at the Adams Memorial Day service on Monday. See more photos here. ADAMS, Mass. — It was some 55 years ago that Francis Bourdon stood in Maple Street Cemetery to recite the Gettysburg Address as a member of Boy Scout Troop 38. "If you had told me that someday I would be speaking here, I would have laughed," said the retired lieutenant colonel on Monday at the annual Memorial Day service in Adams. "One day in the not too distant future one of the youths here may have that honor ... "You're embarking on a life of adventure secure in the freedoms by the sacrifices of your 1 Comment
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