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SteepleCats Drop Pair on Thursday Road Trip| 09:04AM / Friday, July 14, 2023 | |
The North Adams SteepleCats Thursday dropped a pair of road games in two different cities as the New England Collegiate Baseball League tries to get its schedule back on track after a number of rainouts. At noon, the 'Cats played at the Mystic, Conn., Schooners, who scored a run in the bottom of the ninth for a 3-2, walkoff win. Jack Reynolds went 2-for-4 with a double and an RBI for North Adams. Julien Hernandez went 5 and one-third innings on the mound, striking out five in a no decision. On Thursday night, the Bristol, Conn., Blues beat the SteepleCats, 12-1. Hudson Polk drove in a run, and Gehrig Ebel doubled for North Adams. The SteepleCats (8-22) 0 Comments
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Peer-Led Opioid Recovery Center Coming to North AdamsBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:00AM / Friday, July 14, 2023 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — One year into a federally funded study to find ways to address the opioid crisis, a local coalition is close to opening a peer-led recovery center in downtown North Adams. John Crane of the Brien Center and Richard Alcombright, who represents the city on the HEALing Communities Study's Community Coalition, spoke to the city council on Tuesday to give an update on the coalition's activities. North Adams and Pittsfield are among more than a dozen communities in the commonwealth participating in the study, an program of the National Institutes of Health's Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative. The goal is to test strategies to 0 Comments
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Berkshire Food Project Welcomes New Leadership on BoardBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
04:55AM / Friday, July 14, 2023 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — James Mahon has seen the Berkshire Food Project face a number of challenges over 20 years as the president of its board of directors. One recent hurdle, of course, was unique. "This is a place that has been meaningful to me, and I do feel like I've got more out of it than I've put in," Mahon said Wednesday as the lunch rush wound down in the project's dining room at First Congregational Church. "Although there have been times when I've been putting in quite a bit. "During COVID, we lost our executive director, and we were not in the position to hire another one. Nobody was. The labor market was in terrible 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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