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Weekend Outlook: Fresh Grass, Autumn Equinox, and MoreBy Sabrina Damms, iBerkshires Staff
12:47PM / Thursday, September 19, 2024 | |
 There are a variety of events this weekend, including festivals, autumn equinox celebrations, live music, and more. See a list of Farmer's Markets here. Editor's Pick Freshgrass Festival 2024 Mass MoCA, North Adams Time: Friday-Sunday The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art will be hosting its annual Fresh Grass Festival this Friday through Sunday. Thousands are expected to be in the city during the three-day event. There will be live music throughout the grounds and at Joe's Field, including performances by Molly Tuttle And Golden Highway, Shakey Graves, The Devil Makes Three, and many more. There will also be 0 Comments
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Lenox's Hall Steps into Goal for College Squad| 08:50AM / Thursday, September 19, 2024 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- Lenox Memorial alum Ella Hall Wednesday made her collegiate soccer debut in goal for Vermont State Castleton in a 4-1 win over MCLA on Shewcraft Field. Hall made four saves and gave up a goal in playing the second half of the victory. Castleton got two goals from Maggie McKearin in improving to 4-2 on the season. Kylie DeMaio scored a goal, and Mallory Amirian stopped 12 shots for the Trailblazers (0-5). Hall, a 2024 Lenox alum, stopped more than 600 shots and was a two-time all-State selection for the Millionaires. She and the Spartans are home on Saturday against Rhode Island College. MCLA opens MASCAC play on Saturday at 0 Comments
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Greylock School Building Committee Hopes for Positive on Vote| 05:25AM / Thursday, September 19, 2024 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — School Building Committee members are hoping their next meeting will move the Greylock School project forward. "Right now, we're kind of in the holding pattern for the MSBA," said Mayor Jennifer Macksey. "They're waiting for the results of our vote." Tuesday's meeting had to be one of the shortest for the committee — approval of some invoices and minutes, and a reminder of the consequential vote on Oct. 8. That's when voters will be asked to authorize the $65 million school project that would see the construction of a new Greylock School, the demolition of the old school and the closure of 0 Comments
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Historic North Adams Home Destroyed by FireBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
10:52AM / Wednesday, September 18, 2024 | |
 A GoFundMe for the Moon family has been started to help them get back on their feet after losing everything in Wednesday's fire. : The cause of the fire has been ruled accidental after the state fire marshal visited the scene in the afternoon. Fire Chief Brent Lefebvre said on Wednesday evening that the specific cause will be unknown as the condition of the structure is too damaged to enter safely. The building is a total loss, he said, and attributed the fast pace and intensity of the blaze to the very old, dry, heavy timbers in the nearly 300-year-old structure. He said Bennington, Vt., Rural Fire Department also pitched in with a 0 Comments
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McCann Sets Aside Funding For MSBA Feasibility StudyBy Jack Guerino, iBerkshires Staff
06:06PM / Tuesday, September 17, 2024 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The McCann School Committee voted to prepare $275,000 for a Massachusetts School Building Authority feasibility study if the school is accepted into repair program. "I don't think it's going to cost what I'm asking for, but I don't want to screw around," Superintendent James Brosnan said Thursday at the School Committee meeting. "When we are at the end of October, we will want to move fast and already have that money authorized. Maybe that will move us up a little as opposed to someone who has not gotten that done." In 2023 the school submitted a statement of interest to be included in the accelerated 0 Comments
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Clarksburg Board Suspends Police Operations With Chief's RetirementBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:42AM / Tuesday, September 17, 2024 | |
 CLARKSBURG, Mass. — The Select Board on Monday voted to suspend police operations in the town of 1,700 at the end of shift on Friday. That's when Police Chief Michael Williams will retire after 40 years on the force, the last 21 as chief. Officials have been debating for weeks about the future of the Police Department, which has declined at this point to Williams and a single part-time officer. "I think we have to transition to State Police," said board member Colton Andrews. Fellow member Daniel Haskins agreed: "I don't see any alternatives at the moment." Officials had researched several options: hire a 0 Comments
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Letter: Save Notch ForestLetter to the Editor,
07:05PM / Monday, September 16, 2024 | |
 To the Editor:
I am writing to express deep concern over the proposed logging project near Notch Reservoir and the Bellows Pipe Trailhead. This plan poses a significant threat to both the environment and our community's well-being.
Notch Road has already seen the effects of large logging projects. A private logging project from a few years ago (approved by the City) causes flooding during heavy rains, pouring into driveways and basements. Our area regularly faces power outages and property damage due to increasing wind gusts. Without the forests as a buffer, I fear these issues will worsen.
While the city proposes installing culverts as part of the "reconstruction" of the
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Letter: Save Brayton: Vote No on Oct. 8Letter to the Editor,
07:00PM / Monday, September 16, 2024 | |
 To the Editor:
The city of North Adams wants to use state money to demolish and rebuild Greylock School, all because it has neglected to maintain the resources it already has. A vote for a $65 million school is a vote for higher rent, groceries, and taxes — all for a district with a declining school-age population. The $65 million budget for the demolition and reconstruction of the Greylock School is just an initial estimate. While the opposing side notes that the state is paying for $45 million of the project, taxpayers will pay for cost overruns. North Adams has not had a single public building project on budget in the past 20 years. Even if a Ferrari is 0 Comments
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African Children's Choir Kicks Off Tour in North AdamsBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:38PM / Monday, September 16, 2024 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The African Children's Choir afforded the chance for James Luzze to find opportunity and a way out of poverty through its international tours and education programs. "I had a development of the mind in terms of mindset, I learned to dream," he said during a phone interview after arriving in the United States. "And what I saw here, I saw, you know, possibility of a better Uganda because of what I found in this country." Luzze was a child in his native Uganda when he joined the choir, a Christian-based nonprofit that seeks to improve the lives of impoverished children largely from Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda. Now a 0 Comments
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MCLA Professor to Present Myths & Monsters of New England Talk | 03:41PM / Monday, September 16, 2024 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — MCLA Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies Dr. Hannah Noel Haynes will present on Myths & Monsters of New England this fall based on the class she taught in the spring. The public is invited to the talk on October 3 at 7 p.m. in the Feigenbaum Center for Science and Innovation (CSI) atrium, which will explore New England folklore, insight into historical places, and why certain stories are repeated in human history. "The talk will be about looking at the folklore and the history of our region in a different way," she said. "It will be both educational and fun." During the spring semester Noel Haynes 0 Comments
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McCann Awaits Inspection For HVAC BuildingBy Jack Guerino, iBerkshires Staff
05:34AM / Monday, September 16, 2024 | |
The building has different types of heating and air conditioning systems for the HVAC program that started this fall. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Superintendent James Brosnan led the School Committee through the new HVAC shop building that the state Department of Education will inspect on Sept. 19. "The Department of Education will come and review and approve the site to meet the criteria of Chapter 74," Brosnan said Thursday after the committee meeting. "If they approve everything officially, the program can continue. They will go through everything and make sure the building meets their requirements." In 2022, McCann was awarded a $3,110,000 0 Comments
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Lever Inc. Celebrates Decade of Facilitating EntrepreneurshipBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
12:32PM / Saturday, September 14, 2024 | |
Brittney Cappiello says Lever helped her become a better business owner and entrepreneur. She launched her online health business with $25,000 won through one of its competitions. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Lever Inc. has spent the last decade encouraging and guiding innovative startups, building pathways for emerging entrepreneurs and providing new enterprises with access to grants and seed money. Supporters and beneficiaries celebrated the 10th anniversary of the organization's work as an economic catalyst for the region at a dinner at Studio 9 at Porches Inn on Thursday. Brittney Cappiello of My Core Floor credited Lever with helping launch her online 0 Comments
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