| News and events in South Berkshire, Mass.
|
CHP Will Assist with Open Enrollment for ACA Insurance Starting Nov. 1| 12:50PM / Tuesday, October 19, 2021 | |
 GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Beginning Nov. 1, the open enrollment season begins for Massachusetts residents covered by ACA health insurance plans. The Community Health Programs insurance enrollment team is available to assist consumers with questions, plan changes or new enrollments. Open enrollment runs through Jan. 23, 2022, but ACA customers are urged to review their plans in November to begin their process and avoid any lapse in coverage. Many covered by Affordable Care Act plans are automatically re-enrolled in their existing plans. But anyone with questions about coverage or anyone wishing to change plans must do so during this enrollment window to remain 0 Comments
Read More >> |
Trick-or-Treat, Halloween Events 2021| 12:40PM / Tuesday, October 19, 2021 | |
 Halloween this year means extra precautions because of the novel coronavirus and towns are weighing safe ways for trick-or-treaters to celebrate the spooky holiday. This may mean community events, limited trick or treating or cancelations. Check back as the holiday approaches for what your town is doing. If you are going door to door, remember to dress appropriately, carry a flashlight and only visit homes with lights on in your neighborhood. Some special precautions to prevent COVID-19 transmission include wearing a cloth mask instead of a costume mask, reducing physical contact between people as much as possible, handing out candy with minimal or no contact such as in small bags
29 Comments
Read More >> |
Maker Day at The Bidwell House Museum| 11:02AM / Tuesday, October 19, 2021 | |
MONTEREY, Mass. — The Bidwell House Museum will hold an outdoors maker day on Oct. 23. Originally scheduled for July, but postponed due to bad weather, the Museum will welcome visitors to the property for a free afternoon event with craftspeople, music and fall themed refreshments. Attendees will have an opportunity to see traditional crafts being practiced by local artisans as they might have done in the 18th century and see these skills as practiced by both the Native Peoples of early New England and the European settlers, including: Del Martin, of Knox Trail Forge, who will demonstrate traditional blacksmithing techniques and will show some of his 0 Comments
Read More >> |
Paul Mark Announces Run for State SenateBy Brittany Polito, iBerkshires Staff
05:14PM / Monday, October 18, 2021 | |
Mark is endorsed by his House colleagues John Barrett III, left, Smitty Pignatelli and Tricia Farley-Bouvier. With his district being eliminated, Mark would have had to take on Barrett next election to stay in the House PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Paul Mark made official his run for the state Senate next year representing Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin, and Hampden District on Monday afternoon. The 2nd Berkshire state representative had been expected to make a bid for the seat — the current senator, Adam Hinds, is running for lieutenant governor and Mark's own House district in Berkshire and Franklin is about to disappear in redistricting. Mark made the the 0 Comments
Read More >> |
Flying Cloud Institute Welcomes SMArt Studio Director| 02:35PM / Monday, October 18, 2021 | |
 GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Flying Cloud Institute has hired Patrick O'Donnell as director of its Science Meets Art Studio and will relaunch a makerspace program this fall in the Southern Berkshire Regional School District. "As SMArt Studio director, Patrick will lead vacation camp programs, after school makerspaces, family STEAM challenge events, and work with the FCI team to inspire the next generation of artists and engineers. We welcome his artistic skills and cultural experiences in the Berkshires as we work to partner with local school districts to bring meaningful experiences to students," said Executive Director Maria Rundle. Having 0 Comments
Read More >> |
MFBF Names Sunderland Cat Barn Cat of the Year| 12:07PM / Monday, October 18, 2021 | |
 MARLBOROUGH, Mass. — The Farm Bureau Federation named Thomas Farm & Dairy's Sophie-Jane as Barn Cat of the year. “Sophie-Jane exhibited the qualities of an excellent barn cat," said MFBF Promotion and Education Chair Meg Gennings. “Not only does she keep rodents and birds out of the barn at Thomas Farm and Dairy but she also is extremely affectionate and an excellent napper. Those qualities are what make barn cats popular." Sophie-Jane was adopted through Dakin Humane Society's barn cat program, which pairs cats who are either too feisty or too shy to live in traditional homes with working barns. These cats are spayed or neutered, 0 Comments
Read More >> |
New Dentist Joins CHP Great Barrington Family Dental| 10:42AM / Monday, October 18, 2021 | |
 GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Taphaphene Young, D.M.D., has joined the dental medicine team at CHP Great Barrington Family Dental. She provides dental care for adults and children. Young is a 2020 graduate of the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine. She earned her master's in health science at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn., and a bachelor's degree in psychology and pre-medical studies from Spelman College in Atlanta, Ga. While at Tufts, Dr. Young was a student ambassador and served as Student National Dental Association Diversity Officer. She was chapter fundraising officer for the Academy of General Dentistry at Tufts, and at 0 Comments
Read More >> |
@theMarket: Markets Snap Out of Their DowntrendBy Bill Schmick,
03:09PM / Friday, October 15, 2021 | |
 It appears that we have established a range in the stock market over the last few weeks. The bears have not seen their worst predictions come true. My hope is that we leave this month where we entered it. September 2021 was treacherous. Bears were calling for a 10 percent correction at a minimum. Bulls, already on the back foot after witnessing a 5 percent pullback in the indexes, insisted we had seen the lows. Since then, we had been bouncing back and forth in a range. This week, however, appears to be a game changer. We have not re-tested the lows on the S&P 500 Index, which we hit on Oct. 1, 2021, at 4,288 (intraday), nor have we come close to the highs made on 0 Comments
Read More >> |
The Retired Investor: Barbie Gets Better With AgeBy Bill Schmick,
04:23PM / Thursday, October 14, 2021 | |
 Despite this new age of video games, electronic toys, and diminishing attention spans, children are returning to a toy that is almost as old as me. Mattel's Barbie doll is back and at the top of many holiday shopping lists. Some of the credit for Barbie's new-found popularity can be attributed to the pandemic. The lockdowns and the subsequent search for things to keep children occupied had mothers remembering their own fascination with all-things Barbie. Buying a Barbie, however (at least until recently), had parents wrestling with several negative stereotypes. Leading the list was the doll's image of a whites-only toy that ignored the realities of the melting pot we call 0 Comments
Read More >> |
Berkshire County Senior Golf Awards ScholarshipCommunity submission,
08:58AM / Thursday, October 14, 2021 | |
 DALTON, Mass. -- Pairs of golfers in four divisions took home honors at Wednesday's Berkshire County Fall Senior Golf event at Wahconah Country Club. Paul Briggs and Ron Carver won the Blue Gross Division with a score of 67. The Blue Net Division went to Dennis Boldyga and Robert Smith with a 59. In the Green Division, the gross title went to Bill Gates and Paul Traversa. Jim Crews and Roger Prevy won the Green Net with a 58. The Senior Golf program contiued Wednesday to recognize and award scholarships to junior golf players throughout the area. On Wednesday, a $500 scholarship was presented to Wahconah Regional High School golfer Nicholas 1 Comment
Read More >> |
Lee Bank Foundation Announces Community Funding| 12:49PM / Wednesday, October 13, 2021 | |
 LEE, Mass. — Lee Bank Foundation has awarded $40,500 to nine Berkshire area organizations in its third-round of 2021 community grant awards. Recipients were awarded grants ranging from $1,000 to $13,500 to support their local programming. Included in the awards are a series of Arts Access Grants for arts and culture organizations to expand access to programming for underserved audiences. The following organizations received funding from Lee Bank Foundation: Alliance for a Viable Future Berkshire Area Health Education Center Berkshire Innovation Center Berkshire Museum Berkshire Pulse Community Development Corporation of South Berkshire Extra Special 0 Comments
Read More >> |
Mid-October to Feel More Like Summer| 06:16PM / Tuesday, October 12, 2021 | |
 After a frost scare a couple weeks ago, the weather this week will be more like summer than autumn. Accuweather says some areas may break records for warm temperatures for October from a high pressure system building across New England. "As a high pressure system begins to shift into a position just off the Eastern Seaboard on Friday, it will usher in some unusually warm air for mid-October," said AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Carl Babinski. Temperatures will range 10 to 20 degrees above normal but a cold front and wet weather arriving this weekend will bring a more seasonable chill to the air. The National Weather Service out of 0 Comments
Read More >> |
|
|
MEMBER SIGN IN
