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Berkshire Adult Baseball League Welcomes Players for 13th SeasonBy Leland Barnes, iBerkshires.com Sports
06:27AM / Friday, March 29, 2024 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. – As it enters its 13th season, the Berkshire Adult Baseball League has a new commissioner. Jared Martin takes over the reins this spring from BABL founder Lou Orazio. The league, which has games mostly on Sunday mornings with some weeknights throughout the season, runs from early May through mid-August in two divisions, the 20-and-over Division and the 33-and-over Division. “The 20+ year old division is full of mostly competitive players, while the 33+ year old division is a more fun environment and less on the competitive side of things,” Martin said. As of late March, the league has 13 teams lined up for the 2024 0 Comments
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North Adams Regional Reopens With Ribbon-Cutting CelebrationBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
06:08PM / Thursday, March 28, 2024 | |
BHS President and CEO Darlene Rodowicz welcomes the gathering to the celebration of the hospital's reopening 10 years to the day it closed. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The joyful celebration on Thursday at North Adams Regional Hospital was a far cry from the scene 10 years ago when protests and tears marked the facility's closing. Hospital officials, local leaders, medical staff, residents and elected officials gathered under a tent on the campus to mark the efforts over the past decade to restore NARH and cut the ribbon officially reopening the 136-year-old medical center. "This hospital under previous ownership closed its doors. It was a 0 Comments
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Simon's Rock Awarded Freedom to Read Grant| 01:23PM / Wednesday, March 27, 2024 | |
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Bard College at Simon's Rock was awarded a Freedom to Read Grant by the Newburger Schwartz Family Foundation. The grant was awarded to support the Alumni Library and Bard Queer Leadership Project in building a more robust collection of queer scholarship, starting a Queer Book Club, and hosting Drag Story Time events in partnership with Drag Story Hour of the Berkshires. According to a press release: In response to current educational threats with book bans affecting schools and libraries across the country and further proposed legislation against LGBTQ+ people's access to basic rights and education, Simon's Rock is 0 Comments
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Chamber Music by Local Composers to be Premiered at Simon's Rock| 11:18AM / Wednesday, March 27, 2024 | |
 GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — A program of chamber music for clarinet, strings, and piano will feature first performances by two Berkshire County composers on Sunday, March 31, at 3:00 p.m. in Kellogg Music Center on the campus of Bard College at Simon's Rock as part of the South Berkshire Concert Series. Admission to the concert is free of charge. "To a Child Dancing in the Wind" by Alice Spatz is inspired by the poem of the same title by William Butler Yeats, whose lines are read at the start of each movement. "Klezmer-ish" by Larry Wallach offers personal impressions of this folk-and-jazz form of Jewish music, and features a 0 Comments
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Governor Swears In Youth Advisory Council | 08:04AM / Wednesday, March 27, 2024 | |
BOSTON — Governor Maura Healey swore in the members of her Youth Advisory Council. Established through an executive order, Council members will advise the Governor, Lieutenant Governor and the entire administration on critical issues impacting Massachusetts, such as civic engagement, education, climate, housing, mental health and youth violence. The Council is made up of 60 young people, ranging ages 16-21, from every region in Massachusetts, who will serve a two-year appointment. From Berkshire County: Aleksei Chang, Williamstown Cameryn Wilk, Pittsfield Leslye 0 Comments
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ArtWeek Berkshires 2024 Welcoming Submissions | 04:00PM / Monday, March 25, 2024 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — ArtWeek Berkshires, a county-wide collaboration, will take place May 17-27. The ArtWeek committee posted its call for artists. The non-juried event is free to all Berkshire County individuals, organizations, and businesses interested in showcasing creative work. Submissions from actors, cartoonists, crafters, dancers, designers, filmmakers, illustrators, mimes, multimedia artists, musicians, performance artists, poets, puppeteers, theater artists, visual artists, writers – and more – are welcome. The event will feature open studios, gallery talks, theater, performances, workshops, and more interactive experiences. ArtWeek
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Monument Mountain Band, Eagles Community Band Concert| 10:45AM / Monday, March 25, 2024 | |
 GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — On Wednesday, March 27 the Monument Mountain Regional High School Performing Arts department will present a combined band concert with the Eagles Community Band from Pittsfield. This performance will feature the Monument Mountain Concert Band under the direction of Jacob Keplinger and the Eagles Community Band under the direction of Carl Jenkins. The concert will take place at 7PM in the auditorium at Monument Mountain Regional High School at 600 Stockbridge Road in Great Barrington. Admission is free. 0 Comments
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Simon's Rock Annual Pride Week Lecture| 08:01AM / Monday, March 25, 2024 | |
 GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. —Simon's Rock will host their annual Pride Week Lecture with guest speaker Dr. Kyle Velte (she/her) on Friday, March 29 at 3:30 p.m. Simon's Rock observes Pride Week every year in late March and early April to honor International Transgender Day of Visibility and to allow students time to celebrate during the academic year. In Dr. Velte's lecture "The Legal Minefield for LGBTQ+ People and How You Can Make a Difference," Dr. Velte will cover the current legal and political landscape of LGBTQ civil rights, talk about allyship, and talk about how to resist without giving up joy in these dark legal and political 0 Comments
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Nine Inducted into County Girls Basketball Hall of FameBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires.com Sports
06:02PM / Saturday, March 23, 2024 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. – The Berkshire County High School Girls Basketball Hall of Fame Saturday welcomed nine new members, including seven women who were lauded for their many successes on the hardwood. At least one also was recognized for her failures. “I think the thing I’m proudest of is not so much what she did on the court, but how she was able to put herself in a position to fail time and time again,” Frank Field said in his remarks about his daughter, 2017 Hoosac Valley High School graduate Fallon Field. “That’s not easy for kids to do. Those who do it can really excel. “No matter what the role was … whether it was the 0 Comments
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CHP Berkshires Offering Second Senior Covid Vaccine| 10:36AM / Thursday, March 21, 2024 | |
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — CHP Mobile Health is now offering the second updated Covid-19 vaccine to adults 65 and older, and to people of all ages who are immunocompromised. Vaccines are available with the CHP Mobile Health teams whenever they are on the road. The schedule can be found at chpberkshires.org/mobile. Data continues to show the importance of vaccination to protect those most at risk for severe outcomes of COVID-19. An additional dose of the updated COVID-19 vaccine may restore protection that has waned since a fall vaccine dose, providing increased protection to adults ages 65 years and older, according to the CDC. Adults 65 years and 0 Comments
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Writers at the Rock: Poetry and Fiction Series at Simon's Rock| 09:14AM / Thursday, March 21, 2024 | |
 GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.—The Poetry & Fiction Series at Bard College at Simon's Rock returns to campus this spring and is open to the public, beginning on March 7. The Writers at the Rock: Poetry & Fiction Series readings will take place in-person on Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. in Blodgett House on the campus of Simon's Rock. All readings are free and open to the public. The first reading in the series will take place on Thursday, March 7 with author Tiana Clark. "We've had Pulitzer Prize winners, National Book Award winners, Guggenheim Fellows, MacArthur genius grant winners, and rising literary stars whose work just continues to find new 0 Comments
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Authorities Search in Williamstown for Missing Eastern Mass ResidentStaff Reports, iBerkshires
10:05AM / Wednesday, March 20, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Police are asking anyone with information about a missing eastern Massachusetts resident to contact the dispatch center at 413-458-5733. On Tuesday morning, Williamstown Police received a report of a suspicious vehicle parked near the end of Berlin Road, a hiking area near the New York State Line, according to a news release from the WPD on Wednesday. Police determined the vehicle was registered to Fae Morgana Barbone, a missing person from the Abington/Hanson area on the South Shore, the release said. "This person had been reported as missing several days earlier with unconfirmed sightings in North Adams and the Carolinas and a 0 Comments
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