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Congressman Neal to Speak at MCLA 120th Commencement| 04:02PM / Monday, March 25, 2019 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts will celebrate its 120th commencement exercises on Saturday, May 18, beginning at 11 a.m., in the Amsler Campus Center Gymnasium. This year's commencement speaker will be U.S. Rep. Richard E. Neal, who represents the First Congressional District of Massachusetts in Congress and who chairs the House Ways and Means Committee. Neal will receive an honorary doctor of public service degree. In addition, Richard Alcombright, vice president of local business and the customer relations manager at MountainOne and who served as the mayor of North Adams for four terms, will receive an honorary doctor of public service 0 Comments
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Former Royal Cleaners in Pittsfield Now Eyed For Marijuana BusinessBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
01:11PM / Monday, March 25, 2019 | |
The building at 68 Dalton Ave. has been vacant for years and was slated to be demolished. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The former Royal Cleaners is now eyed to be repurposed for a marijuana retail, cultivation, and manufacturing company. The Zoning Board of Appeals granted a special permit for EOS Farm LLC to operate there. The plan is to use the majority of the building for cultivation and manufacturing of marijuana products and then use 600 square feet of frontage for retail. "There are plantings along the front and the side to hide the residential property," said architect John Barry. The company will be leasing from Raymond Frenkel, who also own and 0 Comments
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Albany Berkshire Ballet Looks Ahead — And Back — in 50th Anniversary YearBy Rebecca Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
02:34AM / Monday, March 25, 2019 | |
Albany Berkshire Ballet has formed collaborations with organizations like Williams College, where ABB dancers join student dancers for performances. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The five dancers glided around the room, its purple-and-mirrored walls enclosing a faintly muggy space, either from powerful bodies working hard or a late-winter heating system still cranked up, or maybe a combination of both. The three women and two men were rehearsing a dance for an upcoming showcase at Williams College, but on this day, their ballet slipper-clad feet pounded the dance floor in the second-floor studio of the Albany Berkshire Ballet headquarters on Fenn Street. In the past, on a weekday
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Berkshire Lightscape Turns Focus To Lighting Up Park SquareBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
05:13PM / Sunday, March 24, 2019 | |
The lights in Dunham Mall were added at the start of the winter. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Lightscapes is honing in on a plan to add lighting to Park Square. The non-profit raised a little more than $100,000 for its plan to add lighting to City Hall, Dunham Mall, and Park Square. The Dunham Mall lights were added in the winter, decorating the walkway with rotating snowflakes, and Park Square is next. Dan Frering from Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer (N.Y.) Polytechnic Institute designed multiple concepts to highlight key areas of Park Square with new lighting. The key areas will be the Civil War monument, the elm tree, the fountain, the 0 Comments
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New Incubator Space Opens On Tyler StreetBy Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
04:00PM / Saturday, March 23, 2019 | |
Those in attendance at the welcoming party got to participate as the Otha Day Drum Circle kicked off the event. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A new incubator space for the Morningside area is now open. The Tyler Street Lab is now open at 730 Tyler St. The building houses offices for a number of community organizations and serves as a one-stop shop for people to access whatever they need, whether that be business assistance or community services. The lab is funded by MassDevelopment's Transformative Development Initiative and headed by the newly formed Tyler Street Collaborative. "The Tyler Street Collaborative is people from the community who have ideas and 0 Comments
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@theMarket: Does the Fed Know Something We Don't?By Bill Schmick,
09:55AM / Saturday, March 23, 2019 | |
 Sometimes too much good news can be interpreted badly. Take the U.S. central bank's about face on monetary policy late last year. That was good news and investors responded by bidding the stock market up by 20 percent. But this week we may have received even better news, or did we? The Fed did more than met investors' expectation this week at the central bank's monthly Federal Open Market Committee meeting. Chairman Jerome Powell indicated that there would be no more interest rate hikes for the remainder of the year (after saying back in December that two rate hikes were on the table for 2019). There was even some discussion that a rate cut might be possible, if 0 Comments
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Reilly Pleads Guilty to Misleading Detectives In Ringer Murder CaseStaff Reports,
12:27PM / Friday, March 22, 2019 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — An Easthampton woman pleaded guilty on Friday to lying to state police detectives in a murder investigation. Laura Reilly, 44, pleaded guilty to two counts of misleading police and was sentenced by Judge John A. Agostini in Berkshire Superior Court to two to four years at the Massachusetts Correctional Institute at Cedar Junction. The charges relate to the investigation into the alleged homicide of Joanne Ringer of Clarksburg in 2017. "The judge agreed this was an egregious example of misleading police," District Attorney Andrea Harrington said in a statement on Friday. "We sought incarceration because Laura Reilly's lies not only 1 CommentRead More >> |
Local Wealth Adviser Named to List of Best-in-State| 11:35AM / Friday, March 22, 2019 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Stephen G. Sykes, managing director and senior vice president of wealth management with Raymond James & Associates, was among the Raymond James-affiliated advisers named to the Forbes list of Best-In-State Wealth Advisors.
The list, which recognizes advisors from national, regional and independent firms, was released online Feb. 20. The Forbes ranking of Best-In-State Wealth Advisors, developed by SHOOK Research, is based on an algorithm of qualitative criteria, mostly gained through telephone and in-person due diligence interviews and quantitative data. Those advisers that are considered have a minimum of seven years' experience, and the algorithm
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Local Entrepreneurs Complete 1Berkshire Get Mentored Program| 11:21AM / Friday, March 22, 2019 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Berkshire Starts Get Mentored program held its final meeting of the 2018-20 session in early March at the Stationery Factory in Dalton. Get Mentored, a program of 1Berkshire, helps a selected cohort of five local entrepreneurs launch and grow their ventures over the course of a five-month program by pairing them with experienced mentors from the Berkshire County business community.
At this year's final meeting, the Get Mentored cohort presented three-minute elevator pitches, honed over the course of five months of mentoring, to the assembled mentors. After each pitch, the mentors had an opportunity to pose questions and provide advice about the steps the
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BCC Names New Director of Human Resources| 11:15AM / Friday, March 22, 2019 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Community College has named Melissa Loiodice as the director of human resources.
Since last fall, Loiodice has served as special assistant to the president at BCC, focusing on Title IX and affirmative action. Prior to that, she held the positions of principal attorney at Loiodice Law, associate attorney with SKM Title & Closing Services, director of operations with Pittsfield Community Connection, and associate counsel with Antonino & DiMare Law Office. She also served as a panel attorney at the UMass Amherst Student Legal Services Office.
Loiodice graduated with her bachelor of arts degree from UMass Amherst, cum laude, and was a member of the
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What Should You Do With an Inheritance?Submitted by Edward Jones,
10:52AM / Friday, March 22, 2019 | |
 If you were to receive a sizable inheritance, what should you do with it? This money could help you achieve some of your important financial goals – so you'll want to think carefully about your choices.
Of course, everyone's needs are different, so there's no one "right" way to handle a large lump sum. But here are a few suggestions that may be useful:
Pay off some debts. Depending on the size of your inheritance, you may want to consider paying off some, if not all, of your debts, such as car loans, personal loans and student loans. You might even consider paying off your mortgage, but you may not want to, as you might be able to get a better return on your
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Cultural Pittsfield This Week: March 22-28| 10:40AM / Friday, March 22, 2019 | |
 NEXT THU Berkshire Art Association Honors Marty Rentz Berkshire Art Association will honor and celebrate Marty Rentz, an extraordinary volunteer leader of BAA and many other cultural initiatives in the Berkshires. The evening begins with a community reception at The Lichtenstein Center for the Arts at 5 p.m. FREE. Donations accepted.
A party at Hotel on North begins at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $50 and include a $15 donation to Berkshire Art Association's 2019 College Fellowship Show. MUSIC & 0 Comments
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