| North Adams Officials Mull School Closure
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — School officials are eyeing an accelerated closing of an elementary school as they prepare for the coming fiscal year's "fiscal cliff."
A draft budget for fiscal 2025 is up $2,430,054, a 12 percent increase over this year. This is largely being driven by three factors: contracted |
 | Berkshire Health Group Sets 7% Rate Hike for Fiscal 2025
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Municipal entities that use Berkshire Health Group will see a 7 percent increase in the cost of health insurance in fiscal year 2025.
That was the decision of the BHG board at a two-hour meeting Monday morning at the Charles H. McCann Technical School.
By a 6-1 vote with four voting units |
 | County Residents Earn Bay State Games Skating Medals
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Dozens of local figure skaters competed in Bay State Games USFS Figure Skating Competitions over the weekend at Williams College's Lansing Chapman Rink.
Nine athletes took home gold medals in their groups at the competition.
Among the local residents competing in the event |
 | MountainOne Bank Hires AVP, Community Mortgage Lending Specialist
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — MountainOne hired Jason "Jay" Bianchi to join the residential lending team as AVP, Community Mortgage Lending Specialist.
Reporting directly to the Head of Residential Lending, Bianchi will work out of the Berkshires, and serve as a member of the Bank's Community Reinvestment Act |
| MCLA Professor's Research Featured in Top 10 Physics Breakthroughs of 2023
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — MCLA Physics Professor Dr. Emily Maher, one of 65 scientists in the MINERvA collaboration at Fermi National Accelerator Lab (Fermilab), has published work that has been chosen as one of the Top 10 Physics Breakthroughs of 2023 in Physics World.
Over a 10-year span, the MINERvA detector |
| 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 |
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