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North Adams Officials Mull School ClosureBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:27AM / Tuesday, January 30, 2024 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — School officials are eyeing an accelerated closing of an elementary school as they prepare for the coming fiscal year's "fiscal cliff." A draft budget for fiscal 2025 is up $2,430,054, a 12 percent increase over this year. This is largely being driven by three factors: contracted obligations, higher costs related to out-of-district placements and the loss of nearly $1 million in ESSER funds. Administrators presented the initial figures to the Finance and Facilities subcommittee on Monday morning along with preliminary proposal to close Greylock School to offset costs. The subcommittee wasn't ready to make any decisions, 0 Comments
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Berkshire Health Group Sets 7% Rate Hike for Fiscal 2025By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
06:19PM / Monday, January 29, 2024 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Municipal entities that use Berkshire Health Group will see a 7 percent increase in the cost of health insurance in fiscal year 2025. That was the decision of the BHG board at a two-hour meeting Monday morning at the Charles H. McCann Technical School. By a 6-1 vote with four voting units absent, the board decided on an increase that will maintain coverage for employees in the member units while drawing down the health group's roughly $16 million reserve by about $480,000. The reserve is held by the joint purchase group in order to absorb higher than expected health insurance claims in any given year. In the current fiscal year that ends 0 Comments
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County Residents Earn Bay State Games Skating Medals| 02:12PM / Monday, January 29, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Dozens of local figure skaters competed in Bay State Games USFS Figure Skating Competitions over the weekend at Williams College's Lansing Chapman Rink. Nine athletes took home gold medals in their groups at the competition. Among the local residents competing in the event were: Basic 2 Girls Group A Samantha Anderson, Lanesborough, Christmas Brook, bronze Aspire 3 Girls Free Skate Group C Amelia Art, Williamstown, Christmas Brook, bronze Basic 3 Boys Lukas Benson, Adams, Christmas Brook, gold Excel Preliminary Girls Free Skate Group D Madlyn Benson, Adams, Christmas Brook, gold Basic 4 Girls Group B Ava 0 Comments
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MountainOne Bank Hires AVP, Community Mortgage Lending Specialist| 11:47AM / Monday, January 29, 2024 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — MountainOne hired Jason "Jay" Bianchi to join the residential lending team as AVP, Community Mortgage Lending Specialist. Reporting directly to the Head of Residential Lending, Bianchi will work out of the Berkshires, and serve as a member of the Bank's Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) Committee. Bianchi's primary job responsibilities will include promoting the Bank's overall CRA efforts through customer outreach, assisting potential borrowers with residential mortgages in underserved areas, enhancing community engagement through a series of financial literacy programs, and partnering with federal, state, and local 0 Comments
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MCLA Professor's Research Featured in Top 10 Physics Breakthroughs of 2023 | 08:01AM / Monday, January 29, 2024 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — MCLA Physics Professor Dr. Emily Maher, one of 65 scientists in the MINERvA collaboration at Fermi National Accelerator Lab (Fermilab), has published work that has been chosen as one of the Top 10 Physics Breakthroughs of 2023 in Physics World. Over a 10-year span, the MINERvA detector recorded the interactions of neutrinos and antineutrinos, the antimatter partners of the neutrino. The physicists working on the MINERvA experiment used the data to make a ground-breaking new measurement which was published last February in Nature titled "Measurement of the axial vector form factor from antineutrino–proton 0 Comments
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Clarksburg Officials Want to Study School RegionalizationBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
06:12PM / Sunday, January 28, 2024 | |
CLARKSBURG, Mass. — Town officials are asking the school superintendency union to consider regionalization as a way to reduce education costs. The Select Board met with school officials during a joint meeting on Wednesday night at Town Hall. Select Board member Daniel Haskins said he and John Franzoni, superintendent of Northern Berkshire School Union, had "spoken briefly about the possibility of moving forward with investigating the advantages and disadvantages." Franzoni pointed to the study that had been done with Clarksburg and Stamford, Vt., a few years ago for an interstate school merger and recommended a similar 0 Comments
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Local Firefighters Graduate from Firefighting Academy| 12:37PM / Sunday, January 28, 2024 | |
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — The Massachusetts Firefighting Academy recently graduated Class S35 consisting of 27 firefighters representing 16 fire departments including North Adams and Pittsfield. State Fire Marshal Jon M. Davine said the graduates completed the 50-day Career Recruit Firefighting Training Program. "Massachusetts firefighters are on the frontlines protecting their communities every day, and today's graduates are needed now more than ever," said Davine. "The hundreds of hours of foundational training they've received will provide them with the physical, mental, and technical skills to perform their jobs effectively and 0 Comments
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MCLA Women's Basketball Falls at Fitchburg State| 08:25PM / Saturday, January 27, 2024 | |
FITCHBURG, Mass. -- The Fitchburg State women's basketball team Saturday shot 35 percent from behind the 3-point line en route to a 62-39 win over MCLA. Zaylee Ramos and Hailey Peabody each had a double-double for the Trailblazers, accounting for 74 percent of the team's points between them. Ramos finished with 15 points and 11 rebounds. Peabody had 14 points and 10 boards. MCLA (4-16, 1-6 MASCAC) hosts Westfield State on Wednesday. Women's Hockey NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- Caeli Reed scored in overtime to give Rivier a 1-0 win over MCLA at the Peter W. Foote Vietnam Veterans Memorial Rink. Juliette Barney stopped 49 shots in goal for the 0 Comments
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Community Hero of the Month: Lynn DeSantyBy Sabrina Damms, iBerkshires Staff
04:33PM / Saturday, January 27, 2024 | |
Pediatrics nurse Lynn DeSanty prepares a vaccine shot. She's retiring this year after a 42-year career in nursing. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Northern Berkshire Pediatrics nurse Lynn DeSanty has been selected for the January Community Hero of the Month. The Community Hero of the Month series runs for the next 10 months in partnership with Haddad Auto. Nominated community members and organizations have gone above and beyond to make a positive impact on their community. DeSanty has been a nurse for 42 years and during her tenure has built a strong connection with her patients, their parents, and her co-workers. During an emotional interview, DeSanty 0 Comments
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North Adams Walgreens to Close in FebruaryStaff Reports, iBerkshires Staff
06:18PM / Thursday, January 25, 2024 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Walgreens pharmacy store is closing Thursday, Feb. 22. A spokesperson for the company confirmed the closing on Thursday and said "We will make every effort to place impacted team members at nearby stores." Pharmacy customers are being told their prescriptions will automatically transfer to the Walgreens at 212 Main St. in Williamstown. iBerkshires did not get a response on questions about the building being for sale or if other Walgreens in Berkshire County are also being affected. Walgreens announced last year the closure of 150 stores in the United States; it closed about 200 in 2019. The 0 Comments
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North Adams Councilors Get Narcan PresentationBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:35AM / Thursday, January 25, 2024 | |
Krystle Kincaid of Berkshire Harm Reduction tells the City Council about finding fentanyl and xlyazine in drug samples. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Berkshire County had 47 fatal overdoses in 2022, a dozen of them in North County. Of those, eight occurred in North Adams. One way to stop the deaths is Narcan, said Krystle Kincaid, prevention services supervisor at Berkshire Harm Reduction. "We're literally trying to give it to everybody." Narcan is the brand name of naloxone, an over-the-counter drug that can reverse an opioid overdose by blocking the drug's effects within three minutes. "It's the easiest thing to use. It has no 0 Comments
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North Adams License Commission Reduces Tavern HoursBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
06:29PM / Tuesday, January 23, 2024 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Mohawk Tavern will have reduced hours after a string of incidents dating back a year was reviewed by the License Commission on Tuesday. The commissioners voted to impose a last call at 11:30 p.m. and "lights out" at midnight from February through the end of April, at which time the order will be evaluated. Their decision was based on a report submitted by interim Police Chief Mark Bailey detailing 15 incidents at or near the bar since an underage serving incident in January 2023. Owner Alexander "Sandy" Smith told the commission he'd already instituted an 11:30 last call and added a bouncer because 0 Comments
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