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MCLA Ending Year With Surplus, Sees Uptick in Fall ApplicationsBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:49PM / Tuesday, April 25, 2023 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts will end the year with more than $1 million to the good but is expected to come up a short in fiscal 2024. "Our best estimate, we're going to end fiscal year '23, our best estimate right now from what we can see, at about $1.5 million, which will go to reserves," Joseph DaSilva, vice president of administration and finance, told the college trustees last week. The projection is based on a combination of increased revenue from tuition and fees this past year and from not filling a number of full- and part-time positions. DaSilva gave updates on three reports given to the Fiscal 0 Comments
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Northern Berkshire 'Baseball Bonanza' Returns Saturday EveningCommunity submission,
09:09AM / Tuesday, April 25, 2023 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- Northern Berkshire Youth Baseball will hold its second annual Baseball Bonanza on Saturday at 4:30 on Fallon Field. The event will feature skills competitions for the league's majors and minors age divisions, a skills competition and home run derby for seniors in the Babe Ruth program and a home run derby for high school players. Musicians CJ Field will perform, and there will be a penny auction, food trucks and "adult beverages" in the nearby Greylock Pavillion. Lights will be provided by the Berkshire County Sheriff's Department. The event is free and open to the public. 0 Comments
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Some "did-you-knows" about estate plansSubmitted by Edward Jones,
08:34AM / Tuesday, April 25, 2023 | |
 If you've done any estate planning, or even if you're just familiar with it, you probably know the basics — that is, a comprehensive estate plan can help you pass on assets to your family while also achieving other goals, such as designating someone to take care of your affairs if you become unable to do so. But you may not know about some other estate-planning issues that could prove important in your life: Power of attorney for students – Children heading off to college may be considered legal adults in many states. Consequently, you, as a parent, may not have any control over medical treatment if your child faces a sudden, serious illness or is involved in an 0 Comments
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Clark Art Screens 'Saat Hindustani'| 04:14PM / Monday, April 24, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, April 27 at 6 pm, the Clark Art Institute screens "Saat Hindustani" in its auditorium in the Manton Research Center. Artist Suneil Sanzgiri introduces the film and addresses its historical context and the film's relation to his own practice, including his trilogy of short films currently on view at MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, as well as his forthcoming first feature-length film, Two Refusals. According to a press release: One of the only films made about the liberation of Goa from Portuguese colonialism, Saat Hindustani (1969; 2 hours, 24 minutes) was made nine years after the Goan independence and 0 Comments
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Best Stretches To Do Before Gardening| 08:22AM / Monday, April 24, 2023 | |
 With longer, warmer days finally here, flower beds and vegetable gardens are calling out for our attention. From raking and pruning to weeding and gathering downed limbs, even just an hour or two of effort can leave your yard looking terrific. But, if you don’t adequately prepare your body for the physical exertion the work requires, you can end up achy and sore for days, or worse yet, injured, and unable to tend to your yard and garden at all. To avoid this uncomfortable fate, take a few minutes to ready your major muscle groups prior to activity and to help those same muscles cool down when you’re done. Some simple stretches to do both before after gardening 0 Comments
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SVHC Weekly Health Update: April 21| 08:19AM / Monday, April 24, 2023 | |
 April 21, 2023 Weekend Warriors Take Note With warmer days finally here, flower beds and vegetable gardens have our attention. Don't end up achy and sore from physically exerting yourself in the garden. Check out these seven stretches to make yard work easier on your 0 Comments
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Letter: Homeless Families at MCLA a Misguided EffortLetter to the Editor,
07:00PM / Friday, April 21, 2023 | |
 To the Editor:
It has been 24 years since Mass MoCA opened and I'm still waiting for the seismic shift in our economy and downtown that MoCA's developers promised. Main and Eagle Streets are still largely empty and depressing. While MoCA has certainly helped in many ways, its presence has failed to impact our downtown. Why?
Because North Adams does not suffer from a quick-fix acute illness. But rather, it has a very real chronic disease, poverty. The cure for this disease is societal, far beyond the ability and efforts of any single poor city or single state economic development project, like MoCA.
One thing is certain, purposefully concentrating more poor people in already poor
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North Adams Hangar Completion Date Pushed BackBy Jack Guerino, iBerkshires Staff
05:39PM / Friday, April 21, 2023 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Northeast Hangar renovation project will not be completed by the grant deadline date of June 30 but more likely be in the mid- to late summer. "In terms of project completion, it will not be completed by June 30," Stantec engineer Peter Enzien said. "We still have to get the materials on-site, and then we actually have to reassemble the building." In 2022, the commissioners voted to go forward with the renovation of the derelict hangar, purchased by the city. The project would tap a mix of state, federal, and local funds. Supply issues caused project delays as well as a change order the commission approved last month 0 Comments
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Barrett Calls for MCLA Trustees to Make Decision on Housing ProposalBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:30AM / Friday, April 21, 2023 | |
Trustee John Barrett III pushed his colleagues to ask more questions at Thursday's meeting in Murdock Hall. Other trustees say they want to see the DHCD's proposal in writing first. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The majority of the board of trustees at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts is taking more of a wait-and-see attitude about a proposal for temporary family housing on campus. But Trustee John Barrett III, a neighbor of the campus, said placing the homeless in the Berkshire Towers would be "catastrophic" for the school and castigated the board for not asking more questions about its role in the decision. President James Birge told the 0 Comments
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General Government Committee Backs Earlier Meetings for North Adams CouncilBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
06:19PM / Thursday, April 20, 2023 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The General Government Committee is recommending three changes to ordinance regarding City Council meetings — including changing the start time to 7 p.m. The committee is also advising that it be put into ordinance that the council president have discretion to cancel meetings and that the way meeting packets be delivered be changed to "digitally." Councilor Keith Bona had brought the issue of canceling meetings two weeks ago following the snowstorm on March 14 that dropped several feet of snow across the region. That resulted in the council canceling its meeting for the first time in six years (although 0 Comments
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CHP Berkshires and Elizabeth Freeman Center Form One Door Project | 08:24AM / Thursday, April 20, 2023 | |
 The partnership hopes to improve safe reporting of domestic and sexual abuse? Compared with the pre-Covid era, EFC has seen a 262 percent increase in calls to its Berkshire County hotline For a victim of sexual or domestic violence, trafficking, or other abuse, seeking help can be a high-risk act. For many, confiding in a medical professional may, at first, feel safer than calling a domestic abuse hotline.?? Health care centers where clinicians are trained in trauma-informed care can be safe and private access points for victims. Research shows that women who talked with a health care clinician about domestic abuse were four times more likely to seek out intervention 0 Comments
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Blackinton Union Church Clothing Collection Shed | 08:15AM / Thursday, April 20, 2023 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Blackinton Union Church partnered with St. Pauly Textile Inc. to provide a wood-frame clothing drop-off shed for community use. This shed is designed to give community members a clean, convenient, and well-cared-for option to donate their used clothing. Accepted items: clothing, shoes, belts, purses, blankets, sheets, curtains, pillowcases, and stuffed animals. St. Pauly Textile Inc. partners with a network of businesses and various organizations to distribute donated items both in the U.S. and worldwide. Blackinton Union Church receives funding for donated clothing and has the option to use donations to serve community 0 Comments
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