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New law may offer financial opportunitiesSubmitted by Edward Jones,
04:10PM / Tuesday, March 21, 2023 | |
 Your own decisions and actions typically determine your financial strategies. But outside events can affect your choices, too. And that may be the case with the recent passage of the SECURE 2.0 Act. This piece of legislation covers many areas. But here are some changes that may be of interest to you, depending on your situation: If you're a retiree … Higher age for RMDs – The age at which you must take withdrawals — known as required minimum distributions, or RMDs — from your traditional IRA and 401(k) has increased from 72 to 73, effective this year. (If you turned 72 in 2022, but still haven't taken your first RMD, you will need to do so 0 Comments
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Agriculture Counts: March 2023U.S. Department of Agriculture,
10:31AM / Tuesday, March 21, 2023 | |
 Become a crop weather reporter If you are knowledgeable about crops across your county and have Internet access, you qualify to be a weekly crop reporter. It only takes about 10-15 minutes each week to alert USDA of the crop situation in your county using the Internet report form. We will use that information to generate the weekly report of Crop Conditions across the Northeastern Region. This report is issued weekly during the growing season, April to November, and lists planting, fruiting, and harvesting progress and overall condition of selected crops in major producing states. You can help alert USDA about crop progress and unusual crop conditions during the 0 Comments
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MCLA Announces Nursing Bachelor's Degree Program| 08:08AM / Tuesday, March 21, 2023 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) will launch a four-year Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program for the fall 2023 semester. This will be the first BSN program in Berkshire County, and the only BSN program within an hour's drive in the rural tri-state corner of Massachusetts, Vermont, and New York. This will help address the current and future rural nursing workforce shortage. "Nursing care in rural and remote areas is uniquely complex and diverse, necessitating educational preparation at the baccalaureate level," said Dr. Elizabeth Fiscella, associate dean of MCLA's new BSN program. "Rural nurses 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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