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Small Business Administration Offers Veteran Certification Program| 11:40AM / Saturday, January 14, 2023 | |
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Small Business Administration began accepting applications through the Veteran Small Business Certification (VetCert) program as part of the Biden-Harris administration's commitment to expanding access to resources for Veterans and other underserved populations. The improvements in the customer experience for Veteran entrepreneurs and business owners made by VetCert will build upon the $25 billion in government contract spending with service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses in fiscal 2021. "The SBA's new Veteran small business certification program is designed with our commitment to
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MCLA Panel to Explore Art, Race, Nationality and Gender | 10:55AM / Friday, January 13, 2023 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts College Of Liberal Arts (MCLA) Arts & Culture (MAC) will host a panel discussion, "Modes of Relationship," focused on art, race, nationality, and gender on Jan. 26, 2023, with artist-in-residence WANG Chen and Mikayla Patton, artist-in-residence at The Studios at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA). The discussion will take place at 5 p.m. at the MCLA Design Lab on 49 Main St. The event is free and open to the public. The panelists will reflect on the contemporary art world that insists on the ideas of authenticity and identity in their work. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. 0 Comments
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Flu Shots Still Available at Big Y Pharmacies| 08:11AM / Friday, January 13, 2023 | |
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Big Y Pharmacy and Wellness Centers have administered over 30,000 flu shots this year, a record number for the chain. Health officials continue to make another urgent push to encourage the public to get vaccinated. In the US, this flu season has been one of the most significant in recent memory with nearly 20 million illnesses, 210,000 hospitalizations and 13,000 deaths from flu so far, according to CDC estimates. Experts say it's not too late to get vaccinated. Each Big Y Pharmacy location still offers flu vaccines, no appointment is necessary. In addition to their flu vaccinations that continue to increase daily, Big Y Pharmacies have 0 Comments
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BMC North Adams Campus Renal Dialysis Nurse Earns DAISY Award| 01:46PM / Thursday, January 12, 2023 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Berkshire Medical Center (BMC) Renal Dialysis nurse Michael Tessier, RN, has received the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses, a national nursing recognition program that has been adopted by thousands of hospitals to honor individual nurses who have had a tremendous impact on patient care. Tessier, who serves in the Renal Dialysis Center at the North Adams Campus of BMC, was honored for the compassion and above and beyond care he provided for a Renal patient who was facing end of life, according to a press release. According to one of the nominations submitted for Tessier, "Recently a patient who receives dialysis in North Adams was 0 Comments
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Regional Lawmaker See Possibilities in Northern Tier Passenger Rail By Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
04:57AM / Thursday, January 12, 2023 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Western Mass lawmakers say a $2 billion price tag for passenger rail across the Northern Tier isn't high compared to past projects and would be a significant economic boost to a region long ignored. Preliminary estimates to develop the passenger line between North Adams and Boston is estimated between $1 billion and $2 billion (in 2027 dollars) over a three- to five-year period. "When I see an investment of $2.1 billion compared to what we have put into roads and bridges and all the other things that would improve access on our roadways to get to Boston or the eastern part of the state, this to me is a very small 1 Comment
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North Adams Bridge to Be Dedicated to Slain Capitol Police Officer Billy EvansStaff Reports,
05:25PM / Wednesday, January 11, 2023 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Among the last bills signed by outgoing Gov. Charlie Baker was an order dedicating a bridge on Route 2 for the late Capitol Police Officer Billy Evans. The bill filed by state Rep. John Barrett III will designate the Greylock bridge near West's Variety as the William F. Evans Memorial Bridge. Evans, 41, was killed in the line of duty on April 2, 2021, when a man rammed his car into at a barrier on the north side of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., then got out and lunged at officers with a knife. He was a city native who later grew up in Clarksburg and graduated from Drury High School in 1998. He was buried in Bellevue Cemetery in 0 Comments
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BRPC to Receive $50K National Endowment for the Arts Grant| 01:35PM / Wednesday, January 11, 2023 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Regional Planning Commission (BRPC) announced it has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to receive a Grants for Arts Projects award of $50,000. This grant will support the Creative Compact for Collaborative and Collective Impact (C4) Initiative. This grant is one of 1,251 Grants for Arts Projects awards totaling nearly $28.8 million that were announced by the NEA as part of its first round of fiscal year 2023 grants. "The National Endowment for the Arts is proud to support arts projects in communities nationwide," said NEA Chair Maria Rosario Jackson, PhD. "Projects such as this one strengthen 0 Comments
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North Adams Receives $629K State Grant for Violence PreventionBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
04:55AM / Wednesday, January 11, 2023 | |
Top, Councilors Marie T. Harpin and Jennifer Barbeau pull the new seating assignments for the year. Below left, Lisa Blackmer is sworn in as council president again and, right, Bryan Sapienza takes the oath as the new vice president. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The city is the recipient of a $629,000 violence prevention grant through the state's Strong Communities Initiative. Mayor Jennifer Macksey announced the grant from the Executive Office of Health and Human Services during her update at Tuesday's City Council meeting. "This provides a great opportunity for us to provide collaborations in things that are very, very 21 Comments
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Volunteer Activities in North Adams & Pittsfield for MLK Jr. Day| 04:45PM / Tuesday, January 10, 2023 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Both Berkshire County's cities will recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday with service-oriented activities. The Northern Berkshire Day of Service will be will start at 8:30 a.m. at the Venable Hall gym on the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts campus. Sponsored by the Northern Berkshire Community Coalition, volunteer activities will run from 9 to noon followed by a celebratory lunch at 12:30 in Venable gym. In Pittsfield, the day will start off with a breakfast and keynote speech by Charles Redd, Berkshire Health System's diversity, equity and inclusion officer and a BCC alum, from 8 to 9 at First United Methodist 14 Comments
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'Full Belly' Eatery in North Adams OK'd for Alcohol LicenseBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
04:30PM / Tuesday, January 10, 2023 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The former Desperados is preparing to reopen as Full Belly Tex-Mex BBQ with the same management team that took over the restaurant last fall. B&B Restaurant Associates LLC was approved for a pouring license on Tuesday by the License Commission with Sandra Lopez as manager. Lopez and Linda Bonnivier are the partners of the LLC and hold the lease to 23 Eagle St. and Bonnivier and her husband, local chef Chris Bonnivier, are providing the capital. Lopez and Joseph Bevilacqua began running the eatery in September after owner Peter Oleskiewicz stepped away to focus on his Miss Adams Diner. Desperados closed two weeks ago citing financial 10 Comments
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MCLA to Offer National Girls and Women in Sports Day ClinicsCommunity submission,
11:12AM / Tuesday, January 10, 2023 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. –- The Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' Athletic Department will host two events on Feb. 4 to celebrate National Girls and Women in Sports Day – an initiative that dates back to 1987 to encourage the participation of girls and women in sports. Clinic registration is open until Jan. 29. The day will include a pickleball clinic and tournament for women from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Amsler Campus Center gymnasium and a sports clinic for girls in grades 3-8 from 12 to 4 at the gym. The sports clinic for girls will offer instruction in softball, basketball, soccer, lacrosse and volleyball. Advanced registration and payment 0 Comments
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Are you ready to 'unretire'?Submitted by Edward Jones,
08:48AM / Tuesday, January 10, 2023 | |
 Have you recently retired but are now thinking of going back to work? If so, you aren't alone, as many people are choosing to "unretire." But if you do reenter the workforce in some capacity, what opportunities might be available to you? And how will your renewed employment affect your financial outlook? For starters, though, what reasons might motivate you to go back to work? For many people, the primary cause has been inflation, which has presented a huge challenge to retirees living on a fixed income. In addition, the volatile financial market of 2022 caused many people's investment portfolios to decline in value — a real problem for retirees who needed to 0 Comments
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