Berkshire News

In what is envisioned as an annual tradition, the Berkshire Museum has created the Berkshire Awards to recognize those people who have made significant contributions to artistic, historical, and natural heritage of the region.

This past Friday, while Marine Corps veteran Edward S. Passetto was laid to rest in Lee, Dalton was coming to grips with the death of Army Specialist Mitchell Daehling.

Bernard Mack was ready for a trip down memory lane on Saturday night during Guitar Jam V at the Colonial Theatre.

A selectman's race between a pair of Berkshire natives relatively new to the town will highlight the annual town election on Monday.

The Meditation Group of Northern Berkshire and the Pittsfield Meditation Sangha announce the return of Anyen Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist scholar and meditation master, as a presenter of two events in the Berkshires.

Pittsfield's Billy Keane and Northampton's Heather Maloney will perform at the new Summer Sound festival on May 26, curated by Wandering Star Brewery and hosted by Tanglewood.

Several skeptical members of the GE Housatonic Citizens Coordinating Council have challenged official assurances that no PCB-laden sediment and soil removed from the river south of Pittsfield will be deposited in a South Berkshire landfill.

Mayor Dan Bianchi faces a racial allegation that he unequivocally denies. Doreen Wade this past week asked the Pittsfield branch of the NAACP to support her claims that Bianchi used "racist verbal communication" and displayed a "race-bahaiting attitude" during April meetings with her.

The 22-year-old organization will offer a variety of programs for children, adolescents and adults this spring and summer at the Little Red Schoolhouse.

True to their motto, Northern Berkshire letter carriers would not stop for Saturday's rainy weather, and the area's residents showed their generosity as the 22nd annual "Stamp Out Hunger" food drive gathered more than 23,000 pounds of food for area pantries.

Since 2005, an off-screen Ted Mosby has been recalling to his two increasingly antsy children how he met their mother in the hit CBS show "How I Met Your Mother." Internet rumors are buzzing that the most elusive mother in the history of television will be revealed during the show's season finale on Monday.

One of the best street corners in southern Berkshire - premier location in the heart of Lenox's downtown.

Great Dalton ranch in ideal location! Close to restaurants, shopping, the park, and access to all Berkshire attractions.

TOG Manufacturing Co. Inc., located in the Hardman Industrial Park in North Adams, is expected to move south to the Renfrew Center in the Adams Corporate Park.

The chance from BCC students to earn a bachelor's degree from Elms College just got a lot closer - about 40 miles closer.

They'll all be celebrated with special events this weekend at BAMCon 2013, Berkshire County's own large-scale convention for the realms of anime, manga, comics and gaming.

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Finding the best wine and the best price is always a fascinating hunt for oenophiles, but a few sommeliers west of Boston are hoping to make things easier for you.

Northern Berkshire childhood screenings : United Cerebral Palsy of Berkshire County's Northern Berkshire Early Intervention Program is offering developmental screenings for children, birth to age 3, in Adams, Clarksburg, Florida, New Ashford, North Adams, Savoy and Williamstown.

Town voters passed all articles on the annual town warrant Monday, approving town and school budgets totaling $15.4 million for fiscal 2014.