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Great Barrington Opens Mid-Year CPA Funding CycleStaff Reports ,
11:08AM / Thursday, August 10, 2023 | |
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — The Great Barrington Community Preservation Committee (CPC) will hold a special "off-cycle" funding round for organizations with projects that meet CPA funding criteria. Organizations must demonstrate to the CPC that their projects are "shovel-ready" and that funds are urgently needed. If the CPC agrees, and if funds are available, the committee may recommend that voters approve the grants at a Special Town Meeting this coming October. Applications are due by close of business on Aug. 28; to request an application or more information, email Chris Rembold, crembold@townofgb.org. The CPA was adopted by the voters of 0 Comments
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Berkshire Money Management Welcomes New Employee| 08:30AM / Thursday, August 10, 2023 | |
 GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Berkshire Money Management (BMM), the full-service financial advising firm with offices in Dalton and Great Barrington, announced the expansion of its Great Barrington team with the addition of Airen Wadsworth as Front Office Coordinator. As the Front Office Coordinator, Airen is the first person to welcome guests to the new Great Barrington office at 72 Stockbridge Road. His goal is to help every client and visitor feel comfortable, at home, and part of the BMM culture. He will also support the firm with scheduling, data entry, and other vital tasks. Airen, a lifelong resident of Lee, earned his bachelor's degree in business 0 Comments
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LitNet Revamps Website to Better Serve Learners, TutorsBy Brittany Polito, iBerkshires Staff
06:02AM / Thursday, August 10, 2023 | |
LEE, Mass. — The Literacy Network has launched a new website that furthers its mission of serving the county's immigrant population through language assistance, U.S. citizenship information, and other resources.
This is the first overhaul of LitNet's website in eight years and features improved translation and an intranet gathering space that allows around 160 volunteers to communicate with each other and staff. The new page was created by Brickhouse Web Design of Pittsfield and was made possible by a grant from the Feigenbaum Foundation.
Executive Director Leigh Doherty compared the former page to a closet in an old house that was so jam-packed it was hard to find
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Trustees Receive Grant to Digitalize Ashley House Collection | 01:30PM / Wednesday, August 09, 2023 | |
BOSTON — The Trustees of Reservations (The Trustees) Archives & Research Center has received a grant for over $344,819 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support a project called "A Tale of Two Communities in Two Centuries." This two-year initiative will process, conserve, and digitize two sets of archives currently inaccessible in The Trustees' collections: the Colonel John Ashley Papers (1755-1818), and the archives of the Boston Natural Areas Network (1977-2014) that includes over 50 Boston Community Gardens. "Spaced nearly two centuries apart and at geographically opposite ends of the state, these collections hold powerful 0 Comments
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Mount Everett Artists Featured in Exhibit| 11:24AM / Wednesday, August 09, 2023 | |
SHEFFIELD, Mass. — Seven student artists from Mount Everett Regional School were selected to have their artwork featured in the "How Shall We Live" exhibit at the Berkshire Art Center. Students created their artwork as a response to the climate crisis, presented by Living the Change Berkshires, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to address climate change and climate justice with urgency, creativity, hope, and optimism on a local level. The student artwork will be displayed on Friday, Aug. 4, for First Friday in Pittsfield, until Wednesday, Aug. 30. "We have some very talented students at Mount Everett who have spent time researching the 0 Comments
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W.E.B. Du Bois Sculpture Project Selects ArtistStaff Reports ,
05:39PM / Tuesday, August 08, 2023 | |
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — The W.E.B. Du Bois Sculpture Project has selected artist Richard Blake to create a monument to W.E.B. Du Bois that will be placed in front of the town's Mason Public Library. Blake was one of three finalists who presented models of their proposed statues to the Sculpture Project jury. The models were displayed to the public at the Mason Library in Great Barrington and at the Berkshire Athenaeum in Pittsfield. "All three of our applicants were talented, highly regarded sculptors, each with a unique vision of Du Bois," said jury leader and board member Lauren Clark, a gallerist. She was joined on that panel by painter/sculptor 0 Comments
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Fairview Hospital Receives Recognition for Quality Patient Care and Experience| 10:55AM / Tuesday, August 08, 2023 | |
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Fairview Hospital, a Critical Access Hospital and an affiliate of Berkshire Health Systems, has been awarded a five-star rating by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for quality patient care. The overall rating, between one and five stars, provides consumers with a summary of a hospital's overall quality performance averaged into a single summary score, with five-stars being the highest rating. Scores are determined from a variety of data reported, including mortality, safety of care, timely and effective care, readmissions, and patient experience. Fairview Hospital is one of two hospitals in Massachusetts to earn the 0 Comments
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Berkshire Bounty to Crowdfund to Address Community Need | 08:31AM / Tuesday, August 08, 2023 | |
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Berkshire Bounty, a 501(c)3 food rescue organization, will be conducting a crowdfunding campaign Aug. 16 to 22 to address an urgent community need. The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts (FBWM) will be moving their facilities from Hatfield to Chicopee at the end of August, preventing them from making deliveries Aug. 28 to Sept. 6. "This is a move that will help the region, and there's simply no way to manage it without shutting down temporarily," said Morgan Ovitsky, Executive Director of Berkshire Bounty. "That means that emergency food sites in the Berkshires that depend on FBWM will miss two weeks of deliveries, 0 Comments
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Southern Berkshire Regional School District Joins Rural School Design Cohort| 08:31AM / Monday, August 07, 2023 | |
SHEFFIELD, Mass. — Southern Berkshire Regional School District (SBRSD) has been selected to be one of ten school districts in the country to partner with Transcend, a national nonprofit organization, that supports school communities to create and spread equitable learning environments. This collaboration marks a milestone in SBRSD's commitment to reimagine and redesign education within the district. "We are thrilled to partner with Transcend and participate in their second Rural Schools Design Cohort," said Superintendent Dr. Beth Regulbuto. "The timing of this opportunity was perfect, as our District leadership team was already in the process of 0 Comments
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Q&A: Ukrainian Refugees’ Path Leads to South CountyBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:30AM / Monday, August 07, 2023 | |
 GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. – In February of 2022, the whole western world was speculating about what would happen on the border between Russia and Ukraine. An invasion by Moscow was looming but not inevitable, and to some, it seemed inconceivable. That was the case for 16-year-old Marko Kononenko, a secondary school student and soccer player. "I can tell you that if you talk to every Ukrainian, no one believed it could happen," Kononenko, now 18, recalled recently. "No one wanted to believe. And when the news started to say the war could happen, no one believed. My mom worked in the Canadian embassy in Ukraine, and everyone in the Canadian embassy 0 Comments
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Thunder Finishes Season Unbeaten in Berkshire Adult Baseball LeagueBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires.com Sports
01:45PM / Sunday, August 06, 2023 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. – John Goodnow hit a key two-run single late, and the Berkshire Thunder Sunday overcame a three-run deficit en route to a win over Tunnel City Freight as the Thunder finished the Berkshire Adult Baseball League 33-and-over division with a 14-0 record. Jesus Lay went 4-for-5 with an RBI and scored three times for the Thunder, which pulled away late to take 15-4 win at the Alcombright Athletic Complex. Nine of those Berkshire runs came in the top of the seventh inning. The Thunder took the lead one inning earlier with a two-run rally. Lay, who ended the fifth at shortstop by starting a 6-3 double play, led off the top of the sixth with a 0 Comments
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South County Paving and Guard Rail Repairs | 01:07PM / Friday, August 04, 2023 | |
LEE, Mass. — The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) is announcing crews will be conducting daytime and overnight hour paving operations and guardrail repairs on I-90 eastbound and westbound in Lee, Becket, West Stockbridge and Stockbridge. The work will be conducted at various times and locations from 7:00 p.m., Monday, Aug. 7, through 5:00 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 11. Lane closures will be in place during repair operations and traffic will be able to travel through the work zones. The schedule for the work and lane closures will be as follows: Lee/Becket Paving operations and pavement markings will be conducted nightly on I-90 eastbound and westbound between mile 0 Comments
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