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World Breastfeeding Week: Support Nursing MothersBy MaryElizabeth Merritt , Special to iBerkshires
12:35PM / Monday, July 30, 2018 | |
CHP Family Services and South Berkshire WIC celebrate World Breastfeeding Week with a gathering on Thursday, Aug. 2, 10 a.m-noon, at Family Services, 444 Stockbridge Road, Great Barrington. Children are welcome and refreshments will be served. RSVP to wic@chpberkshires.org or call 413-528-0457. In a world filled with inequality, crises and poverty, breastfeeding can be a building block for lifelong health for babies and mothers. Even an hour or a day of breastfeeding after birth delivers benefits to mother and baby; nursing exclusively for six months offers even greater health rewards for both mother and child.
Support for breastfeeding in the United States and around the world has
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Braintree Tops Post 68 at State American Legion Tourney| 08:43PM / Sunday, July 29, 2018 | |
 QUINCY, Mass. -- Braintree rallied for seven runs in the bottom of the second to take control of the game and hand Post 68 a 10-5 loss at the American Legion State Championship tournament. Post 68 drops into the losers' bracket of the double elimination tourney, where it will face Shrewsbury on Monday afternoon. On Sunday, Post battled back with three runs in the top of the seventh but ran out of outs. Joe Cracolici had a two-run single in the first to give the Pittsfield-based squad a 2-0 lead. And he went 2-for-3 on the day. 0 Comments
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Flynn Pitches Post 68 to Win at State Tournament| 08:25PM / Saturday, July 28, 2018 | |
 QUINCY, Mass. -- Jake Flynn struck out seven in 6-⅓ innings on the mound to lead the Post 68 American Legion baseball team Saturday to a 10-1 win over Sandwich in the first game of the state championship tournament. Flynn scattered four hits before Hunter Potash went to the mound to finish up. Ian Benoit singled to drive in Cal Messina to give the Berkshire County squad a 1-0 lead after three innings, but the Cape Cod champs came back to tie it in the bottom of the fifth. Post 68 exploded for six runs in the sixth inning, a rally highlighted by a Noah Hunter two-run single and an RBI single by Carter Matthews. Matthews drove in another run in the seventh, 0 Comments
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North Adams Police Warn Residents of Coyote SightingsBy Matt McGrory, iBerkshires Intern
06:08PM / Friday, July 27, 2018 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — North Adams Police advise residents to be aware of intruding coyotes in their neighborhoods. The North Adams Police reported that they are aware of recent coyote sightings in the city and urge residents to secure their garbage and refrain from feeding them. iBerkshires.com received an email from a resident reporting two coyote sightings in the Franklin Court and Bridge Street area. He wrote that a coyote attacked his cat. He was able to drive the wild animals off with a loud noise but wanted to spread caution for other residents on the dangers they can pose. He added that he saw the coyotes around sunrise. He noted that they did seem aggressive and were rather
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Miss Hall's School Announces Head's List, Honor Roll| 01:18PM / Friday, July 27, 2018 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Miss Hall's School has announced 42 local students were among the 131 girls schoolwide named to the Head's List and Honor Roll for the first semester, which ended May 24.
For Head's List recognition, students must have taken five major, full-credit courses and must maintain a minimum grade-point average of 92, with no single grade below B-plus.
For Honor Roll recognition, students must have taken five major, full-credit courses and must maintain a minimum grade-point average of 86, with no single grade below B-minus. Head's List Grade 12: Lillian (Lilly) Climo, Great Barrington; Shae Daley, Pittsfield; Gabrielle Hinkley, Dalton; Emily Hunter,
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Pediatrician Joins CHP Berkshire Pediatrics| 01:14PM / Friday, July 27, 2018 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Dr. Sandeep Kumar has joined the medical staff at CHP Berkshire Pediatrics in Pittsfield.
Dr. Kumar is board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics. He was most recently a senior associate consultant at the Mayo Clinic Health Systems in Minnesota and is a graduate of the Sindh Medical College's Dow University of Health Sciences in Karachi, Pakistan. He completed his residency in the U.S. at the Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York.
Before coming to the United States, Dr. Kumar completed his internship at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center, Karachi, and worked there as pediatrics resident medical officer.
Dr. Kumar also worked as clinical research
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Greylock Appoints Two New Directors| 01:08PM / Friday, July 27, 2018 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Greylock Federal Credit Union announced the selection of Krystle A. Gallo and John L. Bissell as the newest members of the credit union's volunteer Board of Directors.
"Our newest members bring a wealth of unique experiences to our volunteer board. Krystle's impressive accomplishments as a leader in the corporate world will provide us with important insights. John's experience as the credit union's president and CEO for the past three years, in addition to his talents as a community leader and advocate for financially-underserved people in the Berkshires will bring an important voice to our board," Board Chair Ann D. Deely said.
Gallo
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Berkshire Hills Appoints Corporate Social Responsibility Officer| 12:52PM / Friday, July 27, 2018 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Hills Bancorp has appointed Gary Levante to vice president/corporate social responsibility (CSR) officer, a newly created position within the Berkshire Bank Foundation.
In this role, Levante will work to expand the foundation's community engagement efforts to implement an all-encompassing CSR strategy. In doing so, Levante will lead Berkshire's efforts to integrate corporate social responsibility into all of the company's and foundation's activities, supporting key objectives, such as strengthening communities and engaging employees. Levante will oversee the development of CSR goals, policies and programs, with a strong focus on
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Berkshire Mall Closes to Shoppers - Again| 08:58PM / Thursday, July 26, 2018 | |
A hand-lettered sign on the door of the Berkshire Mall on Thursday afternoon. LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — The latest in a series of intermittent closures had the Berkshire Mall closed to commerce on Thursday. The Regal Cinema remained open for its regular schedule of shows. A barricade consisting of a fence and upturned tables from the food court prevented people entering to go to the movies from venturing into the food court and beyond. At Target, the large gate was down over the department store’s mall entrance. The manager on duty at Target just after 4 p.m. on Thursday said he did not know when the store received word that the mall would be closing for the day, and he did not
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'Three Identical Strangers': Relatively HorrifyingBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires film critic
04:18PM / Thursday, July 26, 2018 | |
 You don't have to be Jewish to lament "Oy, yoy, yoy" after seeing director Tim Wardle's shocking documentary, "Three Identical Strangers." After being presented a series of outlandish and disturbing disclosures about the title triplets separated at birth, adopted by three separate families and who are reunited at age 19, you'll warm up for that final assessment by first issuing several "Holy Cows," a few "Yipes" and perhaps a couple good old-fashioned "Wows." Unaware of, or having forgotten about, the celebrity that Eddy Galland, David Kellman and Robert Shafran enjoyed when they discovered each other in the early 1980s, I 12 Comments
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Downpours Will Continue to Sprinkle Berkshires Over Next WeekBy Matt McGrory, Special to iBerkshires
10:14PM / Wednesday, July 25, 2018 | |
Blue skies peek out from between dark clouds Wednesday afternoon. Do you need an umbrella, or do you need sunglasses? Lately it seems in Berkshire County, you need both every time you leave the house. As anyone who has grown up in the Berkshires is aware, the county’s climate is prone to violently fluctuate from one extreme to another over the course of the seasons - and even over the course of the day. This recent weather pattern has shown that to be true. Every day this week, sunshine has peeked in and out around heavy downpours, while temperatures have been high and humidity has been oppressive. Will that pattern continue? According to weather.com, over the next two weeks,
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Singing! Dancing! Naked Singing and Dancing!By Grace Lichtenstein, iBerkshires columnist
02:56PM / Wednesday, July 25, 2018 | |
'West Side Story' will be shown at Tanglewood on Saturday night, accompanied live by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Musical theater thrives in the region this week — on stage and on film. It might require a drive, but you can hear country/western music, Bernstein and great stuff for children in the coming days ... or catch up with nudity that began 50 years ago and caused a sensation on Broadway. Tanglewood The most famous work by Leonard Bernstein, whose centennial is being celebrated all summer worldwide, is, of course, "West Side Story." At the Shed on Saturday night at 8 p.m., Tanglewood presents the remastered movie of this iconic musical, on big
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