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Berkshires Beat: Local Community Radio Station WBCR Goes Live| 04:45PM / Thursday, March 19, 2020 | |
 Going live Berkshire Radio Community Alliance is now broadcasting live from its new location on Main Street in Great Barrington. Passersby will now be treated to both veteran and newly trained volunteer programmers and their guests appearing “front and center” in the station’s storefront window. There, the resurrected and much-loved on-air mixing board’s red and yellow lights are lit to affirm that 97.7FM has come alive again. "Live" programming — as differentiated from automated music and syndicated shows — requires a specialized, direct connection from the station's fully integrated, on-air mixing board at 320 Main St. to the radio tower
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The Independent Investor: An Old Dog Learns New Tricks| 04:00PM / Thursday, March 19, 2020 | |
Bill trying to work from home. COVID-19 has upended my life. Like so many other elderly workers, I am at risk, according to the government, the media and the medical community. As a result, if I want to avoid getting sick or dying, working from home is my only option. When I made that decision last Friday, I didn't think it would be a big deal. After all, I have worked at home before (when I was sick or recovering from one of my many surgeries). But as I am in day four of this self-imposed isolation, I am learning that, at least for me, my work habits are going to need an overhaul. As a self-confessed workaholic, who loves what he does, even the idea of 0 Comments
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'Emma': Coming Late to the PartyBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
03:50PM / Thursday, March 19, 2020 | |
 Point of disclosure: I find no movies more difficult to review than those I've bunched into the category I call: "Film Adaptations of 18th and 19th Century British and American Comedies of Manners, and those More Currently Written Paeans, like 'Downton Abbey,' Emulating said Bygone Style to Please Adults who Grew Up on the Stuff and Just can't get Enough of the Prim, Proper and Courtly." In other words, stuff with which I never bothered. It's not that I poohpooh the genre and all that it entails. Oh, that more of our population might attempt just a scantling of the civility so intelligently dissected by the likes of Jane Austen, whose 0 Comments
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BRTA Limiting Access to Intermodal Center in Pittsfield| 03:10PM / Thursday, March 19, 2020 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Berkshire Regional Transit Authority is limiting public use of the Intermodal Transportation Center to those utilizing BRTA's bus service, Peter Pan, Greyhound, Amtrak, or buying food at the coffee shop. BRTA has also instituted social distancing within the ITC, by removing tables and spacing out the remaining chairs to ensure staff and customers' safety. Bus service remains in effect and all vehicles are cleaned every evening using products that are effective against the spread of the novel coronavirus. The facilities are being cleaned using the same coronavirus effective products multiple times a day, especially in high-traffic, 0 Comments
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Local Grocers & Retailers Reduce Hours; Regional Malls Closing| 12:39PM / Thursday, March 19, 2020 | |
 Shopping centers around the region are closing down, some by order and others out of caution in the wake of the novel coronovirus pandemic. Lee Prime Outlets is closed until March 29. TJMaxx/HomeGoods/Marshalls stores are closed globally for two weeks, along with the companies' online ordering and distribution centers. Dick's Sporting Goods and related stores are closed until April 2 but online ordering and curbside pickup are available between 9 and 6 daily. The Holyoke Mall was ordered closed by Mayor Alex Morse on Tuesday along with other retailers in the city with the exception of grocers and pharmacies. Governors in New York, 0 Comments
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Bottomless Bricks Delivers LEGO Fun by the BagfulBy Jack Guerino, iBerkshires Staff
03:22AM / Thursday, March 19, 2020 | |
Erin Laundry fills bags up with LEGOs for delivery. ADAMS, Mass. — Bottomless Bricks is delivering one-pound Creativity To Go Bags so kids can tap into their inner builder while stuck inside. With a clamp-down on gatherings because of the COVID-19 outbreak, some businesses have simply closed their doors while others have found ways to adapt. "I was trying to figure out what we were going to do because I could see the writing on the wall. I realized this could be disastrous for us," Bottomless Bricks owner Erin Laundry said. "I saw some of my restaurant friends offering takeout and delivery when they never did before, and I thought, we have so many 3 Comments
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State Shutting Down Child-Care Facilities, Bottle Redemption| 06:37PM / Wednesday, March 18, 2020 | |
 BOSTON – The governor on Wednesday issued an executive order requiring all early education centers and child-care providers to close effective Monday, March 23, except for those determined to be critical to maintaining services. The shutdown runs through April 6. The administration had initially resisted closing day-cares even as schools and preschools were ordered closed across the state. Gov. Charlie Baker has said at several press conferences that the need for access to child care was critical for health workers and front-line responders. Guidance had been issued more than a week ago for child-care facilities. At a COVID-19 update on Wednesday, Baker said 0 Comments
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Kitchen Fire Forces 18 to Evacuate North Adams Building| 04:50AM / Wednesday, March 18, 2020 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — An early morning fire forced the evacuation of about 18 people from a boarding house on Union Street. The fire started in a back common kitchen on the top floor about 2 a.m. and spread up through a vent. It took almost two hours to ensure it was it completely out. Fire Chief Stephen Meranti said the department was familiar with the building and has responded to burnt food in the past. "This time it extend up into the exhaust fan got up into the area above the ceiling, it followed the ductwork," he said. "It was burning on top of the stove — that set the sprinklers off — but it was also burning above the 10 Comments
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No Delay for Opening Day in Strat-O-Matic Baseball LeagueBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires.com Sports
03:48AM / Wednesday, March 18, 2020 | |
 CHESHIRE, Mass. — Xander Bogaerts will have a chance to lead his team back to the playoffs. Aaron Judge will continue his assault on the home-run record book. There will be a baseball season in 2020. And it will open sometime in early April. At least in Cheshire it will. For more than four decades, the World Baseball League has used Strat-O-Matic Baseball to bring the game home for brothers Jeff and Matt Chaput and a group of friends who have tested their baseball IQs against one another and fate to see who is the best at managing a virtual team of very real Major Leaguers. Strat-O-Matic, which began in 1961, combines the statistics of current players with 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock Schools Working to Keep Kids Fed During ClosureBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:34AM / Wednesday, March 18, 2020 | |
Laurie Meehan helps pack lunch bags in the cafeteria at Mount Greylock Regional School on Tuesday morning. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Dozens of youngsters in the Mount Greylock Regional School District were brown bagging it on Tuesday. But instead of bringing their lunch to school, they were getting a "grab-and-go" lunch from school courtesy of the district's food service staff. At 7 on Tuesday morning, cafeteria personnel Tammy Jennings and Laurie Meehan were joined by acting Director of Special Education Patrick Priester and Superintendent Kimberley Grady in the cafeteria at the middle-high school. The quartet prepared bags with a turkey and 2 Comments
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Guest Column: The Time is Now to Protect Our Local Hospital Workers By U.S. Sen. Edward Markey, Guest Column
06:27PM / Tuesday, March 17, 2020 | |
 It is now clear that we are at war with the coronavirus. While the people of our state need a range of help and assistance, one action we need to take is clear to me: we need a massive wartime manufacturing mobilization for coronavirus testing kits and personal protective equipment for medical personnel. The courageous men and women who are on the frontlines at area hospitals need to have all the tools, equipment, and devices they need to test and treat patients. That is why I have called on the Trump administration to immediately use existing authorities under the Defense Production Act to increase private production of the personal protective equipment, medical supplies and 1 Comment
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North Adams Happenings: March 17| 05:03PM / Tuesday, March 17, 2020 | |
 COVID-19 UPDATES & LOCAL RESOURCES Greetings,
For the next few weeks we'll be changing our focus from promoting events in our area to offering updates and resources related to the Coronavirus pandemic.
This is uncharted territory for all of us and we will continue to work together to keep everyone safe, informed, and supported. We are in this together and if there's one thing we do really well it's helping each other through rough times. We got this!
Below is the most current information available. We hope this 1 Comment
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