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NEA Pulls Grant to Mass MoCA Due to Trump's 'Agenda'By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:20PM / Tuesday, May 06, 2025 | |
Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll with museum director Kristy Edmunds in the Gibson exhibit on '413 Day' this year. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art announced Tuesday that two of its previously awarded federal grants have been clawed back by the Trump administration. In a statement posted on Mass MoCA's website and reprinted on Facebook, the museum said it learned Friday night that a National Endowment for Arts grant in support of Jeffrey Gibson's "Power Full Because We're Different," was being terminated. The grant, approved in November of last year, supports the exhibition by Gibson, who is "known for 0 Comments
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Bishop Earns Conference Honor at St. Michael'siBerkshires.com Sports,
06:59AM / Tuesday, May 06, 2025 | |
 St. Michael's College first-year catcher and Drury High School graduate Brooke Bishop was named the Northeast-10 Conference Rookie of the Week in mid-April. Bishop went .389 at the plate with a .667 slugging percentage and .450 on-base percentage in a 3-3 week for the Purple Knights to earn the honor on April 21. Last week, St. Michael's was eliminated in the NE10 tournament with a 2-0 loss to top-seed Pace, the No. 15-ranked team in Division II at the time. Needing two wins against Pace to advance in the tourney, St. Michael's won Game 1, when Bishop went 1-for-3 with a double and an RBI. She also had a hit in the second game. Bishop ended her first 0 Comments
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Need Ideas to Celebrate Mom? We've Got You CoveredBy Breanna Steele, iBerkshires Staff
03:49PM / Monday, May 05, 2025 | |
 Mother's Day is this Sunday, May 11. Now an annual holiday to celebrate maternal bonds, it was started Anna Maria Jarvis of West Virginia in honor of her own mother, Anna Reeves Jarvis, a social activist who found her calling in Mothers Day Work Clubs. The clubs sought to educate people about sanitation to reduce child mortality and also provided care to soldiers of both sides during the Civil War, later focusing on reconciliation. Around the same time, Julia Ward Howe, author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic, also called for a "Mother's Day of Peace" and later issued a proclamation of motherhood and peace celebrated until the outbreak of the 0 Comments
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North Adams Public Schools to Destroy Former Special Education Records| 03:02PM / Monday, May 05, 2025 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — North Adams Public Schools will destroy special education records of students who withdrew, graduated, transferred, or were released from special education services during the 2017-2018 school year. The records will be destroyed after June 30, 2025. Former students or their parents who wish to retrieve these records should contact Student Support Services at 413-776-1670, options 3, 4, or 5, no later than June 25, 2025. The school district requests two days' advance notice for record pickup. 0 Comments
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McCann Technical High School Announces Third Quarter Honor Roll| 08:13AM / Monday, May 05, 2025 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — McCann Technical High School is proud to announce the Honor Roll for the third quarter of the 2024-2025 school year Class of 2025 Achieving High Honors for the Year of Graduation 2025 are: Lillian Bean, Alexander Boyer, Hayden Digennaro, Logan Driscoll, Antonio Elias, Evan Fortini, Zachary Gelinas, Brodie Hayden, Evan Hilton, Tobey Hopkins, Grace Hunt, Griffen Lancia, Brockton Lasher, Nathan Luczynski, Samuel Mcgrath, Paige Meyette, Meghan Mongeon, Camryn Moran, Nora Moser, Kevin Poette, Emily Raschdorf, Sophie Reid, Liam Roberts, Lukas Rylander, Brady Sagendorph, John Stack, Ava Stefanik, Evan Tatro, Joshua Touponce, Dylan Turner, and Sadie 0 Comments
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North Adams' K-M Toyota Expands Service CenterBy Breanna Steele, iBerkshires Staff
05:08AM / Monday, May 05, 2025 | |
The service center is located next to the main building at 51 West Main St. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — K-M Toyota has revamped its old body shop on West Main Street to better accommodate the service needs of its customers. The body shop was closed down a few years ago, and has been used intermittently since, said Dennis Dubie, owner of K-M Toyota. He decided it would be a great service area because it has enough room to be able to work on bigger vehicles. That took some investment and renovation. "We had to take and change everything in the body shop to make it desirable for a service area," Dubie said. He explained that Toyota had 0 Comments
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Hoosic River Revival Celebrates Billboards, Kicks Off 'Placemaking'By Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
07:24AM / Sunday, May 04, 2025 | |
Hoosic River Revival founder Judith Grinnell, left, and co-President Nancy Bullett at Saturday's celebration. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Eighteen years ago, Judith Grinnell asked 30 like-minded people if they wanted to make North Adams prettier. "Most of them have still been working on it," said the founder of the Hoosic River Revival on Saturday as she touched on the "roller coaster ride" the nonprofit has been on ever since. The effort to integrate the Hoosic River into the city it runs through while still maintaining the flood control protocols that prevent it from endangering North Adams has been a multistep process that has 0 Comments
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North Adams Jewelry Store Showcases Local ArtistsBy Breanna Steele, iBerkshires Staff
12:26PM / Saturday, May 03, 2025 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Artist Cheryl Coppens long had a dream of opening a jewelry store. That dream came true last November when she opened The Artful Jewelers in the space on Ashland Street that had housed the former DiLego Jewelry, which ceased operations after nearly a century in business. Following in DiLego's footsteps has helped business. "We jumped on taking advantage of having a space where the local community already knew there was a jewelry store," Coppens said. The Artful Jewelers offers local and fine jewelry as well as jewelry repair and gifts. Coppens pursued a corporate business career and had owned a children's resale shop 0 Comments
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Dr. Curtiss Joins Gastroenterology Professional Services at North Adams Regional Hospital| 08:00AM / Saturday, May 03, 2025 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Berkshire Health Systems has announced the appointment of James Curtiss, MD, to Gastroenterology Professional Services, practicing in the North Adams Regional Hospital office and providing gastroenterology and endoscopy services for North Berkshire patients. Dr. Curtiss is accepting new patients. Dr. Curtiss received his medical degree and completed a Fellowship in Gastroenterology from the University of South Alabama College of Medicine. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine from the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Dr. Curtiss has over 20 years’ experience as a gastroenterologist. He has practiced the 0 Comments
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McCann Graduates First Adult Manufacturing Technology ClassBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
06:55AM / Saturday, May 03, 2025 | |
The 200-hour course was the first under the state's Career Technical Initiative grants. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — One by one the eight graduates of the Advanced Manufacturing Technology Program were called up on Thursday to receive a folio containing all the certifications they had earned since February. The free 200-hour course was funded through state Career Technical Initiative implementation grants. McCann Technical School was awarded funding last year for advanced manufacturing, welding and automotive technology courses. The manufacturing is the first one in adult education program. "I wanted to better myself," said Jason Lane. 0 Comments
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North Adams OKs Liquor License for New RestaurantBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:31PM / Friday, May 02, 2025 | |
Jenny Klowden and Bryan 'Swifty' Josephs appear before the License Commission on Tuesday. The couple were approved for an all-alcohol license and expect to open Door Prize on Main Street in June. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — A new restaurant will be opening in the Hotel Downstreet this summer. Door Prize, which previously had operated as a pop-up at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, was approved for a full liquor license this week. Bryan "Swifty" Josephs and Jenny Klowden told the License Commission on Tuesday that they will be serving up "European comfort food." "So that means we're doing a lot of 0 Comments
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Author to Discuss George Harrison at North Adams Public Library| 01:15PM / Friday, May 02, 2025 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The North Adams Public Library and MASS MoCA's R&D Store will host author Seth Rogovoy for a free reading, presentation, and book signing of his book, "Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison", on Wednesday, May 7, at 6:00 p.m. The event will take place in the 3rd-floor community room of the library. The book explores George Harrison's contributions to The Beatles' music and his solo career, as well as his role in introducing Indian music and beliefs to the West. Copies of "Within You Without You" will be available for purchase after the event and can be preordered at
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