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Guest Column: Fentanyl: Current Wave of the Opioid Crisis in the BerkshiresHEALing Communities, Guest Column
01:26PM / Monday, October 24, 2022 | |
 The United States has passed a grim, heartbreaking milestone: a record number of Americans are dying as a result of a drug overdose. Between April 2020 and April 2021, drugs – mostly synthetic opioids such as fentanyl – took the lives of more than 100,000 of our sons and daughters, loved ones and neighbors, community members, and friends. Preliminary data from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health indicate confirmed overdose deaths from opioids have increased 7 percent from 2020 to 2021. Overdose deaths from synthetic opioids – primarily fentanyl – have also increased. This rise in opioid overdoses across the country is largely due to illicit 0 Comments
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Brien Center Marks 100 Years of Mental Health Care With GalaBy Brittany Polito, iBerkshires Staff
12:00PM / Monday, October 24, 2022 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Hundreds gathered at the Colonial Theatre to celebrate the Brien Center's 100-year anniversary of providing behavioral health care to the Berkshires. "It's an important night for the Brien Center because we're celebrating the 100 plus years of our history, so I think given the fact that that organization has been around for 100 years it speaks pretty well for its future," President and CEO Christine Macbeth said Saturday at the Gala. "And I think it's an incredibly important agency to this Berkshire community since we're their primary provider of behavioral health services, and I think that over the years, certainly, 0 Comments
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North Adams Chamber Fall Workshop Series to Support Small Businesses| 08:36AM / Monday, October 24, 2022 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. —The North Adams Chamber (NAC) will host a series of fall workshops to assist small businesses in the Northern Berkshires. The Northern Berkshire business community is invited to a Holiday Promotion networking event on Oct. 24 at 5 p.m. at Greylock Works. Business owners, artists and entrepreneurs are encouraged to come together to brainstorm the best ways to promote products and services ahead of the holiday season. Refreshments and snacks provided by Door Prize. In November the NAC will start a technology makeover series that will dive into online commerce, effective software options and digital marketing. Each class costs 0 Comments
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North Adams Airport to Clean Up Access Badge SystemBy Jack Guerino, iBerkshires Staff
04:55AM / Monday, October 24, 2022 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The city will update and address the airport access badge system and policy to tighten up security. Mary Katherine Eade, administrative officer and acting airport manager told the commission Tuesday that the current access badge system is, quite frankly, a mess. "It is kind of obvious that it was out of control in terms of the number of badges that have been issued and the number of people actually at the airport," she said. "I have 12 pages of airport users which means about 240." An access badge for an airport user currently costs $50. Eade, if this was actually enforced, the city should be making more 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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