| | | The number of people who have died of drug overdoses in Massachusetts from 2002 through 2007 is nearly 41 times as many as the number of servicemen and women from the state who died in Afghanistan and Iraq over the same span, according to just-released report on drug use in the commonwealth.
"If more than 3,200 people from the commonwealth died overseas [in that time span], there would be
Full Story Across Berkshire County, efforts to curb underage drinking and substance abuse are gearing to become more visible in the community.
"We want kids to be healthy," said Alan Bashevkin, executive director of the Northern Berkshire Community Coalition.
This week, the Mount Greylock Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol held its first event in a four-part lecture series called
Full Story PITTSFIELD -- With the distribution pace of the swine flu vaccine progressing from a crawl to a shuffle, officials are urging patience as supplies slowly reach the Berkshires and the H1N1 strain continues to sicken people statewide.
County health officials say most pregnant women -- the highest priority group on the vaccination list -- have already been inoculated against H1N1, while
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NORTH ADAMS -- For Paul Rusesabagina, the inspiration of the Oscar-nominated film "Hotel Rwanda" and author of "An Ordinary Man," it is not enough for the world to acknowledge that a genocide took place in Rwanda in 1994.
He wants the world to acknowledge that it knowingly turned its back as 800,000 Rwandans were massacred by Hutu extremists for more than 100 days
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PITTSFIELD -- A North Adams woman was sentenced to three to six years in state prison for selling a powerful opiate painkiller to a friend who overdosed and died shortly afterward.
Dawn Cote, 44, of Liberty Street, North Adams, was found guilty Sept. 27 of selling Fentanyl, a prescription painkiller described as 100 times more powerful than heroine, to 32-year-old
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PITTSFIELD -- Mayor James M. Ruberto edged Ward 6 Councilor Daniel L. Bianchi by just 209 votes Tuesday night to retain the corner office in City Hall for the next two years in one of the closest mayoral races in city history.
Bianchi said he will likely ask for a recount.
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ADAMS -- The Adams-Cheshire Regional School District took a big step Monday toward finalizing a plan to deal with the mothballed Adams Memorial Middle School.
The state School Building Authority’s Designer Selection Panel named its first pick for a design firm to conduct the feasibility study to determine how the district will deal with Adams Memorial.
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WILLIAMSTOWN -- A property on Bee Hill Road sold for $2.2 million on Oct. 23, making it one of the highest residential property sales in the town’s history.
"It even may be the second highest," Assessor William J. Barkin said Tuesday.
He said the highest residential property sale took place in 2004, when the Cole Porter estate at 1425 West Main St.
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NORTH ADAMS -- It was the end of an era Tuesday night. City Councilor Richard Alcombright swept all five city wards, winning the election by 880 votes and ending Mayor John Barrett III’s 26-year tenure in the city’s corner office.
Alcombright, who attributed his victory to an unprecedented outpouring of community support, celebrated his victory with a
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Brad Thibodeau of the facilities department at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts blows the leaves from the lawn of the Church Street Center on Monday afternoon.
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NORTH ADAMS -- Starting today, children under the age of 18 will not be permitted to visit patients at North Adams Regional Hospital, a temporary measure hospital officials say will protect patients from swine flu.
The hospital is also restricting visiting hours and the number of visitors allowed and asking any adult with flu-like symptoms to refrain from visiting the
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ADAMS -- Veteran Adams Police Officer Alan C. Vigiard, 45, was arrested last week and charged with possession of child pornography. He has been placed on administrative leave pending further investigation, authorities said Monday.
According to state police reports, Vigiard, who is married with two children, allegedly downloaded and viewed child pornography in the
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NORTH ADAMS -- In 1994, the act of one man saved the lives of 1,200 refugees as racial genocide ripped through the African nation of Rwanda, killing nearly a million people over 100 days.
Paul Rusesabagina, whose story inspired the Oscar-nominated 2004 docu-drama "Hotel Rwanda" and later "An Ordinary Man," his firsthand account of the 100 days of death witnessed from
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NORTH ADAMS -- Police are pursuing several charges against a local man in connection with recent house break-ins that have plagued the city.
Bruce L. Trudeau, 32, of Mohawk Forest Boulevard, pleaded not guilty in Northern Berkshire District Court on Monday to 16 different charges, ranging from breaking and entering to drug possession.
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ADAMS -- Police are investigating damage done to motor vehicles believed to have been caused by Halloween revelers on either Friday or Saturday.
Sgt. Richard Tarsa said Sunday while toilet papering trees, houses or cars, hitting them with eggs, or smashing pumpkins in the streets is usual Halloween activity, causing damage is unusual.
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