Berkshire News

A convicted sex offender is being held on high bail after pleading not guilty in Central Berkshire District Court to allegations that he had contact with a 13-year-old city resident.

An alleged mid-level crack cocaine dealer from Manhattan, N.Y. who is believed to have direct ties to a Bronx-based drug ring distributing crack cocaine in the northern Berkshires, pleaded not guilty to numerous drug charges in Berkshire Superior Court on Thursday.

The Berkshire County Drug Task Force and the Adams Police Department arrested three people last night and confiscated several marijuana plants at an Albert Street apartment.

The Berkshire Talking Chronicle, the nonprofit outfit that broadcasts reading services for the blind and reading impaired, has moved to a new home.

There's a simple formula police use to explain how they bust gangs and their economic endeavors in the drug trade: Arrests = hours.

Toonerville Trolley, the Williamstown record store, had Michael Jackson CDs on hand Friday morning.

There are moments when I am so outraged I don't know what to say first. That happened when I read that Don McCauley, head of Minuteman Wind, was shopping his Savoy wind project to the towns of Wellesley and Concord in eastern Massachusetts.

Developer Michael Deep lost another of his lawsuits against the City of North Adams this week.

While the Berkshire hills are being eyed as the primary location for wind power projects on state-owned land, turbines aren't likely to start popping up anytime soon, state officials said Wednesday during a public input session at Berkshire Community College.

They were line up in the field behind the Krispy Cones Sofe Serve Cafe: red Corvettes, white Corvettes, green Corvettes, a total of 30 in all.

Four down and one to go. That's the number of defendants who have been arraigned so far in Berkshire Superior Court for their alleged roles in a West Side home invasion that left a man seriously wounded.

Massachusetts officials will hold the last of two public hearings on a study that identified potential wind power on state land.

After weeks of delay, the state House and Senate on Friday finally gave Berkshire budget makers what they had been waiting for: firm numbers.

The state House and Senate approved a $27.4 billion budget on Friday afternoon that will see a cut of up to 15 percent in aid to some cities and towns.

Before a large and often emotional crowd, the director of the Massachusetts Broadband Institute spent two hours on Friday afternoon fielding questions on the lack of broadband access in the Berkshires, and outlining the organization's plans to tap into a pool of federal economic stimulus money to expand that technology here.

Town voters will be asked to approve a $1.15 million budget during the annual town meeting at 7 p.m. at the Florida Senior Center.

William Norcross of North Adams won the Stamford Volunteer Fire Department's baseball excursion.

Due to an increasing demand for services, the Berkshire Immigrant Center has begun to offer walk-in hours to enable those seeking immigration advice or services to avoid waiting weeks for an appointment.

Narcotics investigators have been busy this spring locking up alleged Pittsfield drug dealers, three of whom recently were charged in Berkshire Superior Court for unrelated cases.

An input session on the proposed trail system at the Glen will be held Monday, June 15, from 6 to 8 at Adams Town Hall.