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The Drury High School senior prom was held at the NORAD Mill in North Adams on Saturday, May 11, 2024.
145 undergraduate and 8 graduate students graduated from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts on Saturday, May 11. Purchase photos here.
Stephanie Zollshan
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About five months after owner Paul Lovegreen announced that Tunnel City was on the market, three buyers — Jamal Stockton, Janine McCarl and Nilaykumar Patel — are poised to purchase the business.
Sten Spinella
Reporter
Advocates say that a state program called Healthy Families helps create "a village," supporting families in creating stable homes and preventing child abuse and neglect. They're asking state leaders to put more money to that program and help lower a set of "grave" statistics.
Meg Britton-Mehlisch
Pittsfield Reporter
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An argument that started inside Methuselah Bar and Lounge on Friday allegedly ended in a late night stabbing in a nearby parking lot.
Readers share their photos of the sky on Friday night. If you missed the northern lights, not to worry: Space Weather Prediction Center says, weather permitting, you may be able to catch a glimpse Saturday and possibly Sunday evening starting around 10 p.m. until 2 a.m. For the best view, go…
Town Hall leaders will reveal reaction by technical consultants this week to plans for a PCB landfill in Lee. An open house will be held on the matter Thursday.
The Richmond annual town meeting, with 28 articles on the warrant, will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Richmond Consolidated School.
Pownal, Vt., expects to receive some no-cost assistance from a team of Williams College students in preparing a required management plan for land near the town's forest recreation area.
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By state law, a screening committee of five eligible town citizens would sift through dozens of applications before recommending up to three publicly identified candidates to the Select Board.
Tyringham will hold its annual town meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Town Hall.
Greg Sukiennik
News Editor
Hinsdale will hold its annual town meeting at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Town Hall. There are no contested races in this year's town election, which is May 18.
Matt Martinez
News Reporter
It will remain cooler than normal this weekend, but it won’t be a washout and there may be some breaks of sun.
The changes in the zoning bylaw limited the number of allowed cultivators in town to one and rewrote the section on offensive odors.
Greg Sukiennik
News Editor
Tyler Sumner allegedly participated in the ambush-style shooting on Columbus Avenue with two other assailants. He has pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder.
Amanda Burke
Cops and Courts Reporter
The top of the landfill would be 2 feet higher than the highest power line. That’s according to renderings produced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and made public earlier this week
Greg Sukiennik
News Editor
“The city slickers pay the country boys,” Planning Board member Casey Pease said of the local excise tax on short-term rentals. “The renter pays.”
Jane Kaufman
Community Voices Editor
The vote, in which Timothy Zelazo prevailed 120-59, was the only contested race on the town ballot.
Greg Sukiennik
News Editor
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“‘Giuseppe Grandini’ and the Search for the World’s Greatest Opera Character” is a free, hourlong jaunt intended for audiences aged 8-14 and their families. The concert, 11 a.m. May 18, is part of ArtWeek Berkshires.
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In the program “Zarabanda Variations," at the Clark Art Institute, 4 p.m. May 19 , early music scholar, violinist and composer Keir GoGwilt explores how this music found its way from colonial New Spain to the Baroque courts of Europe.
Sharon Smullen
Eagle Correspondent
About five months after owner Paul Lovegreen announced that Tunnel City was on the market, three buyers — Jamal Stockton, Janine McCarl and Nilaykumar Patel — are poised to purchase the business.
Sten Spinella
Reporter
Mount Greylock Regional School will perform “Lights Off,” the school's first student-led production since 2018, at 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, May 16 to 18.
The Stockbridge Grange is serving a takeout-only roast pork community dinner on Sunday, May 19.
Lanesborough Public Library will present easy wildlife balloon animal twisting with Ed the Wizard on Saturday, May 18, in the Town Hall Community Room.
Jewish Federation of the Berkshires is holding a rice and pasta collection through May 31 to help alleviate the growing food crisis in the Berkshires.
Local History
Incarceration rates for women rose with the creation of the first formal police forces in Massachusetts in the 1850s. Women were jailed for crimes including prostitution, drunkenness, and even "being a stubborn child."
Eagle Archives, May 11, 1981: The office of fence viewer is one of those apparent anomalies of country living which amuse and amaze the new arrival from the city. It turns out that not all natives fully understand the post either.
The granddaddy of all of the recreational steamboats to ply Pontoosuc Lake was the Lafayette, built by Peter Hodecker Jr. on the southwest shore near where The Proprietor’s Lodge now stands.
Eagle Archives, May 10, 1984: Fred T. Thompson is one of more than 4,500 runners to carry the traditional Olympic flame across one small stretch of this country en route to the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
Eagle Archives, May 8, 1970: When Mrs. Charles R. Carlo held her first Blue Bird meeting at her home, five of the nine girls attending included her 7-year-old triplets and 8-year-old twins.
Eagle Archives, May 6, 1981: Erika A. Uchman of North Adams works on her own time and at her own expense to clean up city land.
Eagle Archives, May 4, 1960: Pittsfield escaped almost scot-free in the May 3 nuclear bomb attack drill but Civil Defense volunteers had a busy time of it anyway.
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“‘Giuseppe Grandini’ and the Search for the World’s Greatest Opera Character” is a free, hourlong jaunt intended for audiences aged 8-14 and their families. The concert, 11 a.m. May 18, is part of ArtWeek Berkshires.
In the program “Zarabanda Variations," at the Clark Art Institute, 4 p.m. May 19 , early music scholar, violinist and composer Keir GoGwilt explores how this music found its way from colonial New Spain to the Baroque courts of Europe.
Actor Natalie Joy Johnson chats about bringing "Lempicka" from Williamstown Theatre Festival, where it premiered in 2018, to Broadway, where it's now running at the Longacre Theatre through May 19.
Eagle Theater Critic Jeffrey Borak set out with the intent to take in some theater without a pen and notebook in hand. When he returned home, he felt compelled to share his thoughts about the shows he saw ...
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About five months after owner Paul Lovegreen announced that Tunnel City was on the market, three buyers — Jamal Stockton, Janine McCarl and Nilaykumar Patel — are poised to purchase the business.
Sten Spinella
Reporter
Allen Harris writes that although the economy is robust by many metrics (gross domestic product, unemployment, corporate profits), cash levels for U.S. corporations reached $4 trillion in 2023. Although that is $136 billion below pandemic highs, it is $1.25 trillion (or 45 percent) above their long-term trendline. Harris adds that many business owners and managers are holding onto cash because they remain cautious regarding their industries or the aggregate economy.
On the verge of completing a year-long process to reassess eligibility for every member, the MassHealth public insurance program has now cut more than 350,000 people from its rolls since last April.
Twenty percent of Massachusetts-based nurses intend to leave the field in two years or less, citing deteriorating quality of care delivered in hospitals, understaffing, low pay and other challenges, according to survey results released Monday.
Pittsfield softball bounced back in an early game on Saturday by beating Hoosac Valley.
The Spartans plated 19 runs in five innings to win a Saturday afternoon road contest.
Rain couldn't spoil the good vibes last weekend at the Dalton CRA May Day Races
When Taconic and MCLA graduate Austin Rachiele went into the Transfer Portal last summer, he came out at D-I Siena. Eagle sports columnist Howard Herman checked in with Rachiele, and has an idea for a regional professional baseball team.
The only true thing ever said in Washington is “If you want a friend, get a dog.” Yes, other dogs adopted us after Lady, each miraculous in their own way. Each missed as you miss sunshine in days of rain.
As I stepped into Hamilton Hall, the front door slammed behind me. “Listen up,” said a guy with a megaphone. “We’ve locked ourselves in and won’t leave until they accept our demands.” I wasn’t sure what those demands were, but they turned out to include ending U.S. involvement in Vietnam and purging the university’s endowment of investments in companies tied to the war.
Known as forever chemicals, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, are a group of synthetic chemical compounds, plastics with many benefits. They also can remain in your body for years and cause myriad health problems.
Berkshire is the starting point for rivers. Follow yours downstream to its treasures.
Campus police arrested 135 pro-Palestinian protestors at the University of Massachusetts Amherst late Tuesday night, hours after students established their second encampment this semester to demand the university divest from organizations connected to the defense industry and Israel.
Gov. Maura Healey voiced her support for how police were deployed to clear recent pro-Palestinian encampments at Northeastern University and Emerson College.
The Massachusetts House voted 153-4 late Friday to pass a $58 billion fiscal 2025 budget that invests in K-12 education, child care and public transit, shifting debate on spending priorities to the Senate.
Both the federal government and the state have taken efforts to streamline the process to approve new immigrants to work in the U.S. Here's an inside look at that process.