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Are your goals 'must have' or 'nice to have'?Submitted by Edward Jones,
12:27PM / Tuesday, May 23, 2023 | |
 Like everyone, you may have a lot of financial goals. But are they all of equal importance? Probably not. And do they share a similar timeline? Again, it's unlikely. So, your first step may be to prioritize your goals — and then follow a process that can help you achieve them. This process should include the following steps: Identify your goals as "must have" or "nice to have." Making sure you can retire comfortably and won't outlive your resources is a "must have" goal. For this goal, you can't compromise — you need to be certain of achieving it, or at least as certain as possible. But if you want to someday own a vacation home 0 Comments
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American Legion Post 125 Hosts Sutton WalkersBy Jack Guerino, iBerkshires Staff
05:36AM / Tuesday, May 23, 2023 | |
Marchers arrive at the celebration at Post 152 on Sunday. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Dozens of American Legion members from Sutton marched their way through downtown North Adams on Sunday participating in the 100 Miles For Hope Walk. The Sutton American Legion Post 414 veterans and Boy Scouts concluded their walk through the city at a celebration hosted by American Legion Post 125. "It is just a big party to welcome them into the city," Post 125 Commander Mitchel Keil said. "We walked out to them last year because it is 100 miles from our post to their post, so it is our turn to host the reception." What started out as a program to 0 Comments
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Derelict Plane Removed From North Adams AirportBy Jack Guerino, iBerkshires Staff
06:08PM / Sunday, May 21, 2023 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Airport manager Bruce Goff told the airport commission that the derelict plane that had flipped over in 2022 has been completely removed from the airport campus. "On April 21, he had the fuselage put on a flatbed and towed away," Goff told the commission Tuesday. "I like having aircraft here, but if they are here, I want them to be in working condition. So I am happy to see it go." During a windstorm last year, the plane was completely flipped over. The city had to call a towing company to right the plane. The city could not contact the owner so they footed the $5,000 bill. The city did eventually contact the plane owner 0 Comments
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More Than 400 Compete in Steel Rail RacesiBerkshires.com Sports,
03:28PM / Sunday, May 21, 2023 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- Williamstown's Alex White was the first runner across the finish line at Sunday's MountainOne Steel Rail Marathon on the Ashuwilticook Trail. White maintained a 6 minute, 26 second per mile pace over the 26.2 mile course from Pittsfield to Adams and back. He reached the finish line in 2:48.42.41 to finish 5-1/2 minutes ahead of the rest of the other 72 runners who finished the event's marathon division. The fastest finisher in the marathon was Stephen Gulley of Billingham, the event's lone hand pedaler, who finished in 2:20:05.36. The first female runner across the finish line was Assonet's Hailey Desmarais 0 Comments
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NAPS Post Graduate Scholarship Applications| 04:02PM / Saturday, May 20, 2023 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The North Adams Public Schools offers three postgraduate scholarship funds for any college student who graduated from Drury High School and is attending a four-year college when making an application. Applicants must have a google account with a Google sign-in to apply on-line and submit their transcript electronically. The Charles & Olivia Perron Memorial Scholarship is open to any college student attending a four-year college. Here is the Perron form. The Mortimer P. Howard Memorial Scholarship is open to college students about to enter their junior or senior year at college. Here is the Mortimer P. Howard Form. All 0 Comments
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DA Says Kelsie Cote Killed Grandmother, Attempted to Conceal EvidenceBy Brittany Polito, iBerkshires Staff
06:02PM / Friday, May 19, 2023 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The district attorney says Kelsie Cote assaulted and killed her grandmother with scissors and a paper weight on Halloween night and attempted to conceal the evidence. On Thursday, Cote was arraigned in Berkshire Superior Court for first degree murder of Doris A. Cote on or between Oct. 31 and Nov.1, 2022. Her counsel waived the reading of the remaining counts on the indictment and a pre-trial hearing has been set for Nov.14. Cote, 26, of 22 Rich St. in North Adams, was charged with murder, assault to murder and evidence tampering in the death of her 74-year-old grandmother. Cote, who had a not-guilty plea entered on her behalf, entered the court
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Rotary Club Day of Service | 03:24PM / Friday, May 19, 2023 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The five Berkshire County Rotary Clubs will participate in Rotary's annual Day of Service on Saturday, May 20. North Adams will be cleaning, painting and doing minor repairs to the North Adams Visitor Center. Williamstown will be helping the teen center create a garden of raised beds to enable learning about growing vegetables and herbs. Pittsfield will add native plants to the Conte Community Garden to promote pollination as well as refreshing the soil and planting an educational tea garden. Dalton will do a cleanup of Pinegrove Park and Great Barrington will work with the Rotary Interact Youth Group to plant 155 plants 0 Comments
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North Adams Woman Pleads Guilty To Home Invasion, Assault | 08:30AM / Friday, May 19, 2023 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. On Thursday, May 11, Shelly Nichlen, 43 of North Adams, pleaded guilty to one count of Home Invasion and two counts of Assault and Battery with a Deadly Weapon as a joint venture. Nichlen was sentenced by the Honorable Judge Flannery to 2.5 years in the House of Corrections with conditions upon release: enter a residential drug treatment program then go to an outpatient drug treatment program and remain drug and alcohol-free. On September 24, 2017, Nichlen and two additional perpetrators, Ronald Sanford and Arthur McCowan, conspired to rob the victim. On the date of the crime, Nichlen entered the victim's apartment to ostensibly buy drugs. Upon 0 Comments
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Mass MoCA Commission Welcomes Architecture Firm, Silkscreen PrinterBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
04:54AM / Friday, May 19, 2023 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Two new tenants will open on the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art campus: Gary Lichtenstein Editions LLC and JZJN architecture. Lichtenstein Editions is a publisher and printer of fine art silkscreen editions and will be located in Building 13, in the gallery formerly occupied by Eckert Fine Art. Gary Lichtenstein, with managing partner Melissa Marr, said he expects to open the second week of June. "We've been in discussions with the director there, Kristy Edmunds, for over a year," Lichtenstein told the Mass MoCA Commission on Monday, adding he had worked with her before. The studio is currently operating in Jersey 0 Comments
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Letter: Disappointed With MCLA Decision on ShelterLetter to the Editor,
04:19PM / Thursday, May 18, 2023 | |
 To the Editor:
I read with disappointment MCLA's decision not to move forward with proposed housing for the homeless on their campus. I have also been reading with even greater disappointment, the commentary surrounding the proposed location as well as comments I have heard from folks around the city. Much of what I read and heard was deeply rooted in NIMBYism, stigma and implicit bias around the issues of homelessness and substance use disorder. And while MCLA President Birge stated that there were many unanswered questions that prompted his most recent decision, I would think that the tone of our community and our leadership had a lot to do with the outcome. I want to thank Jess
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American Legion Post 125 Reception for Veterans, Scouts Completing 100 Mile Walk| 08:00AM / Thursday, May 18, 2023 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Frank R. Stiles American Legion Post 125 will be hosting a reception for a group of Veterans and Scouts as they complete a 100 Mile Walk from Sutton. The event will take place Sunday, May 21, 2023 at 12:45 p.m. The walkers will be following the route of Ashland St, Main St, and American Legion Drive. It is requested that supporters line the streets as the walkers pass. The reception will commence at the completion of the walk, approximately 1:30 p.m. at American Legion Post 125, 91 American Legion Drive. Food will be available while supplies last and free entertainment will be provided by Tribute to REAL Country 0 Comments
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Condemned North Adams Apartment Building Burns to the GroundStaff Reports ,
12:49AM / Thursday, May 18, 2023 | |
An image from the city's property database shows what the front of the building looked like Firefighters were on the scene Thursday morning monitoring the wreckage. "Nothing new right now, obviously the fire is knocked down and we should be out of here shortly," Deputy Fire Chief Robert Patenaude said. "The fire marshal is here this morning." An excavator was on the scene flipping through the wreckage so firefighters could make sure the fire is still out. "We are just keeping it under control today. Right now we are just spreading it out to make sure it is completely out," he said. "The problem we had, why we 0 Comments
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