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Clarksburg Tax Delinquents Strongly Urged to Arrange Payment PlansBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:27PM / Wednesday, December 27, 2023 | |
 CLARKSBURG, Mass. — The town's recent attempt to recover delinquent tax payments may have seemed like hard ball but no one was evicted from their home on Wednesday. Town Treasurer/Tax Collector Kelly Ryan thought a report in a local newspaper two weeks ago had misconstrued the tax title process by using the word "seized" in the headline and referring to an auction in the article. "A tax taking is a pre-foreclosure measure and it's considered a serious delinquency," she said at Wednesday's Select Board meeting. "So in an effort to collect the back taxes, the town has a right to file a lien against these properties and the 0 Comments
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Tire Company's Annual Drive Delivers Gifts to North County TeensBy Jack Guerino, iBerkshires Staff
05:34PM / Tuesday, December 26, 2023 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Through community contributions, Gills Point S Tire raised more than $5,000 to make local teens' holidays a little brighter. "Supporting programs and fundraisers for our children shows that, although we all have our own issues and lives, at the end of the day our community truly cares about each other and the future," store manager Jessica Perin said. Perin said the program is in its third year, and the Curran Highway tire specialists decided to help teens because they felt they were an underserved group during the holidays. "It is important to band together to support our teens who are the next generation who will be 0 Comments
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Berkshire Bounty Opens North County Cold Storage at BMC North| 12:50PM / Tuesday, December 26, 2023 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Berkshire Bounty opened new cold storage units at the North Adams Campus of Berkshire Medical Center in a collaboration with Berkshire Health Systems. This project, funded by the state through the Food Security Infrastructure Grant (FSIG) program, is part of a countywide effort to strengthen the local and regional food system through a collaborative effort, which will expand local food production, storage and delivery systems that bring fresh and healthy locally grown food to the food insecure community. "Berkshire Bounty works closely with Berkshire Grown and several other community organizations to implement a robust, resilient layer within 0 Comments
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Veteran Spotlight: Army Staff Sgt. Arthur Wiknik Jr.By Wayne Soares, Special to iBerkshires
12:24PM / Sunday, December 24, 2023 | |
 HIGGANUM, Conn. — Arthur Wiknik Jr. served his country in the Army's 101st Airborne as a staff sergeant from 1968 to 1970. Born in Higganum, he was drafted at the age of 19 and did his basic training at Fort Dix, NJ. "Didn't want to go in. I just got a big job at Pratt-Whitney, bought a '68 Camaro and had a girlfriend that I was crazy about," he said. "But I went in." His first assignment was to Fort Polk, La., for Advanced Infantry Training. "Much like basic but a lot more intense," he recalled. "I had lots of aptitude tests. I scored well on the app tests and weapons training." He was then sent to 5 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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