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Saturday Jul 4 | Berkshire Eagle

Artists at home: Frelinghuysen and Morris

Of all the historic houses in Berkshire County, the only one in which I feel the presence of non-ghostly inhabitants is the Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio in Lenox.

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Mon Jun 01, 2009

Telegram & Gazette

List of projects that will use civilian flaggers

The list released by the Patrick administration Monday of 71 construction projects across Massachusetts that will rely on civilian flaggers: DISTRICT 1 - LANESBOROUGH-PITTSFIELD: Resurfacing on a Section of Route 8. - CHESTER-HUNTINGTON: Resurfacing on a Section of Route 20.

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Wed May 27, 2009

MassLive.com

Gateway Prom 2009

Photo by Manon Mirabelli -- From left, Dawn S. Hoppe, 18, of Huntington; Ashley B. Parady, 17, of Russell; Natasha A. Downie, 17, of Russell; Karina E. Piispanen, 17, of Chester; Elyse A. Pommenville, 17, of Worthington, and Hilary P. Anderson, 17, of Russell.

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Tue May 19, 2009

WBZ-AM Allston

Prospective teachers score poorly in math

State education officials say nearly three-quarters of the people who took the state elementary school teacher's licensing exam this year failed the new math section.

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Sun May 17, 2009

MassLive.com

Westfield State College graduates upbeat about finding jobs

By ALEX PESHKOV apeshkov@repub.com WESTFIELD - Hill Harper, an actor and classmate of Barack Obama at Harvard Law School, urged 1,280 Westfield State College graduates Saturday to follow their own path and be open to where their interests might take them.

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Sat May 09, 2009

Boston Globe

Green: People may be spreading bat disease

As white nose syndrome, the devastating illness that is killing hundreds of thousands of bats marches its way across the country, officials are trying to ensure humans aren't inadvertently spreading it.

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Mon Apr 27, 2009

MassLive.com

Gateway advisory committee to meet at 9 a.m. today to discuss possible school closings

The Gateway Regional School District's Elementary Advisory Committee meets for the first time today at 9 a.m. A 14-member elementary education parent advisory committee will be working with the district's superintendent and elementary schools principals to give input on the process of consolidation or closing Blandford, Chester and R. H. Conwell ...

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Sun Apr 19, 2009

Berkshire Eagle

'Intense' fire contained

A controlled brush fire got out of hand Friday afternoon and sparked a forest fire in a swath of woods north of Center Pond, forcing more than 100 firefighters from 10 towns to battle the blaze for 10 hours.

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Wed Apr 15, 2009

Main Street Newspapers

Expo brings alternative methods to life

Josh Schwartzbach and wife Adrienne Metcalf, own E.J.A. Magical Journeya s in Chester, Ma.

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Fri Apr 10, 2009

MassLive.com

Gateway school district seeks parental input on school consolidation plans

By ALEX PESHKOV apeshkov@repub.com HUNTINGTON - The Gateway Regional School District is looking for parents to give input on the process of consolidation or closing Blandford, Chester and R. H. Conwell elementary schools.

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Mon Apr 06, 2009

Boston Globe

Green: Would you rally around rats?

I've always been stunned by the outpouring of emails, phone calls and letters I get when I write about stranded dolphins, entangled whales and other cute and charismatic creatures.

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Fri Apr 03, 2009

The Recorder - Greenfield, Massachusetts

Bats dying off

When wildlife researchers last month went into the upper part of a vertical cave in the Hampden County town of Chester, where just 4i3 41 2 weeks earlier they'd found 1,013 hibernating bats, only 116 were left.

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Fri Feb 13, 2009

Berkshire Eagle

Marking Lincoln's birthday

Chesterwood, the Stockbridge home of Lincoln Memorial sculpter Daniel Chester French, hasn't been as visible or as popular as some of the county's other cultural attractions the last few years.

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Mon Feb 09, 2009

Berkshire Eagle

Chester man killed in car fire

A 40-year-old Chester man died Saturday morning from burns suffered in a mysterious car fire Friday night, police said.

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Sat Feb 07, 2009

WWLP

Chester man dies in car fire

A Chester man died early Saturday morning after suffering burns in a car fire in Becket.

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Fri Feb 06, 2009

Berkshire Eagle

Four arrested in West Side drug raid

A nighttime drug raid on the city's West Side shut down a large-scale cocaine operation, according to narcotics agents, who arrested four people and seized money, drugs and paraphernalia.

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Thu Jan 29, 2009

WWLP

Severe hilltown winter

There's a big difference in a Pioneer Valley winter and the much colder winter experienced in the Hilltowns of Western Massachusetts.

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Tue Jan 27, 2009

MassLive.com

Groundbreaking ceremony held for new multipurpose bus station in Holyoke

Ken White, Holyoke Community College's director of community services, left, looks at an artist's rendering of the former fire station that will house a new bus terminal in Holyoke.

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Mon Jan 19, 2009

Sentinel & Enterprise

Superintendent: OK with snow days

Superintendent Nadine Binkley said Friday that she does not believe drastic changes to the school calendar will be needed to make up for days missed following the Dec.

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Thu Jan 15, 2009

Berkshire Eagle

Schools struggle to make up time

The season for snow days is hardly over, but a series of unexpected events have left some Berkshire County schools unsettled about making up for lost class time.

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