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1Berkshire Accepting Applications for Best Foot Forward Facade Improvement Micro-Grants| 08:38AM / Thursday, January 19, 2023 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — 1Berkshire, thanks to a one-time grant award, announced that they are accepting applications for a second year of the Best Foot Forward Facade Improvement Micro-Grant program. In 2022, this program provided 31 small businesses and organizations across the Berkshires with facade improvement grants of up to $1,000, helping not only to improve individual storefronts, but to improve the aesthetics of our downtown commercial districts in the region. In 2023, this program returns and is expanded. A minimum of 47 grants of between $500-$1000 will be made available on a rolling basis to small businesses and organizations with first-floor store fronts. A 0 Comments
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Next Generation to Lead Guido's Fresh MarketplaceBy Sabrina Damms, iBerkshires Staff
05:09AM / Wednesday, January 18, 2023 | |
 GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — The future of Guido's Fresh Marketplace has been assured with a new generation preparing to take on the family business. Chris and Matt Masiero started with a roadside produce stand in 1979 on Route 7 in Pittsfield with a $2,500 loan from their father — after whom the store is named — and shuttled fresh produce from Chelsea Market in Boston. Forward 44 years and two grocery stores later, the brothers are looking at retirement and to handing off the enterprise they've built to their children Luke and Nick (Matt's sons) and Anna (Chris' daughter). "I would say I'm excited to see what our minds 51 Comments
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Free Webinar with CHP and Rural Recovery| 02:20PM / Tuesday, January 17, 2023 | |
 GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — CHPBerkshires and Rural Recovery are partnering to present a free webinar conversation, "Sober Curious? Rethinking Drinking, Building Healthier Habits," on Thursday, Jan. 26, noon-1 pm. More information and preregistration information can be completed here: chpberkshires.org/sober-curious The conversation is open welcome to all but will focus mainly on alcohol use. People encouraged to attend are those questioning if their 'social drinking' has become habitual or is interfering with quality of life, health, family relationships and work, says a press release. CHP Family Nurse Practitioner Terrance 0 Comments
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EforAll Celebrates Accelerator Program GradsBy Brittany Polito, iBerkshires Staff
04:44AM / Tuesday, January 17, 2023 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. Entrepreneurship for All celebrated the 2022 Fall Accelerator Program graduates with its first in-person gala and $13,000 in awards. Around 100 people gathered at the Berkshire Innovation Center on Thursday to recognize the 19 individuals representing 13 businesses that completed the intensive program. EforAll's free, year-long business accelerator helps a business or non-profit make its vision a reality. The first quarter of the year is intensive, and the participants check in quarterly for the remainder of the year. "We have a lot to give. We came to EforAll to receive mentorship, professional guidance, 0 Comments
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Bidwell House Museum Online: Mohican Medicine for the Winter Months| 01:27PM / Monday, January 16, 2023 | |
 MONTEREY, Mass.— The Bidwell House Museum presents its 3rd annual winter Zoom lecture series, and the topic for the lectures in 2023 will be life in winter for the early residents of the Berkshires. There will be one lecture each in January, February and March. In this first lecture on Jan. 18, Misty Cook, a member of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of the Mohicans, will discuss the history of Medicines throughout the Tribe's history. She will focus on #6 Wild Bergamot, Mullein, and Sumac. She will also talk about gathering, drying and preserving herbs and will discuss the usage of herbs through stories of the Tribe. Misty Cook (Davids) MS has studied herbal 0 Comments
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