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PITTSFIELD -- Local businesses are looking for more than a few good thinkers. On Friday, they got a glimpse of their upcoming workforce during the third annual Berkshire STEM Career Fair at Berkshire Community College.
At the same time, hundreds of students from 11 local high schools got a chance to see what local employers had to offer in the fields of science,
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NORTH ADAMS -- The health-care workers’ union at North Adams Regional Hospital have decided to hold an informational picket and rally on Tuesday after the latest round of negotiations with hospital management did not meet the union’s expectations.
Service Employees International Union 1199 voted unanimously to picket outside the hospital after Northern
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NORTH ADAMS -- Having secured the support of his fellow council members, City Councilor Ronald Boucher is preparing to take on the role of council president for the first time.
"I have all the votes needed for president -- I only need five, but I have the support of the seven other councilors and my own vote for a total of eight," Boucher said Friday.
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NORTH ADAMS -- Call them crazy. Call them obsessed. Just don’t tell them the "Twilight" saga sucks.
"I just love the story line of the books -- its not you’re typical vampire lore. It’s so different and unique," Jordan Poirot said Thursday night. Poirot was eagerly waiting with a group of family and friends in the lobby of the newly opened North
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LENOX -- There were no common themes in the booty except this one -- he snatched whatever he could and ran.
A Bible. BB guns. Silverware. CDs. Watches. Family photos. Jewelry. A bag of marshmallows.
It was all laid out on tables inside Lenox Town Hall on Thursday, hundreds of items police say Stefan E.
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PITTSFIELD -- Two Adams brothers are on three years probation and each have to pay more than $60,000 in restitution for defrauding the Internal Revenue Service by hiding their incomes and avoiding taxes on their home renovation business over the course of four years.
Scott Farrington, 34, and his brother Mark, 33, were sentenced in U.
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ADAMS -- In the wake of a child pornography charge that has shaken the Police Department and this small town, Officer Alan Vigiard has resigned and a former officer, Thomas Cook, has been hired to replace him.
The 45-year-old Vigiard’s resignation came to light during Wednesday’s Selectmen’s meeting, when Town Administrator Jonathan Butler asked the
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PITTSFIELD -- A judge heard more testimony Thursday in the Berkshire Superior Court trial of a former police officer accused of assaulting a man while he was in police custody.
Joshua N. Mantello, 30, who was fired from the North Adams Police Department in March, is accused of punching, choking and using a Taser on Matthew Trombley, an intoxicated suspect who was in
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NORTH ADAMS -- Just three weeks after Berkshire Community Action Council opened its fuel assistance program, the organization has already approved 3,000 households in Berkshire County for federal funds to purchase heating oil, natural gas and wood for the winter.
"At this early time in the program, my perception would be that each household will receive about one tank
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WILLIAMSTOWN -- One-stop Thanksgiving dinner shopping -- all with a local flavor -- is what organizers of the first annual Holiday Farmers’ Markets hope to achieve on Saturday.
Berkshire Grown, a nonprofit focused on promoting the buying and eating of local food, will present Holiday Farmers’ Markets in Williamstown and Great Barrington featuring over 50
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WILLIAMSTOWN -- Mount Greylock Regional School District will receive up to roughly half a million dollars from the Massachusetts School Building Authority to replace the high school’s aging boilers and upgrade its heating plant.
The School Building Authority Board approved the project at its meeting Wednesday morning, authorizing MSBA Executive Director
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NORTH ADAMS -- The Modern Liquors property on State Street is set to become a thing of the past this spring -- the city is planning to purchase and demolish the building to increase available parking space for the Noel Field Athletic Complex.
Mayor John Barrett III said Tuesday that the city has received $221,000 in federal funds through the state Executive Office of
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PITTSFIELD -- A Berkshire Superior Court judge will decide whether a former North Adams police officer used excessive force on a man held in protective custody.
Joshua N. Mantello, who was fired from the North Adams Police Department earlier this year, opted Wednesday for a jury-waived trial, which means his fate will be determined by Judge John A.
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WILLIAMSTOWN -- While they may be part of the newest class at Mount Greylock Regional High School, members of the Class of 2013 have made their mark by collecting almost 700 cans of food for area food pantries.
Ninth grade class advisor and English teacher Drew Gibson said Tuesday the class collected 695 cans as part of a food drive, which began on Oct.
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WILLIAMSTOWN -- While it’s already a leader among art museums worldwide, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute is looking to become a leader in environmental sustainbility with the second phase of its campus enhancement and expansion project.
Deputy Director Tony King said Monday the Clark will incorporate the latest "green" technologies into the second
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