Berkshire County News

Gracie A. Vincent sold property at 3 Crandall St., Adams, for $154,000 to Lisa A. Kenney.

Congratulations to United Cerebral Palsy of Berkshire County and The Berkshire Talking Chronicle on their strategic alliance .

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.

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.

A proposal by National Grid to increase the average residential customer's utility bill by 5.5 percent next year has come under scrutiny by the state Attorney General's office.

After four years of serving up Peruvian and Argentinean fare at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Cafe Latino will close its doors for good in September.

The National Weather Service has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch for Berkshire County until 9pm Wednesday.

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.

The man whose body was found in a Berkshire County lake yesterday afternoon apparently died from drowning, an autopsy shows.

Independence Day is the archetypal outdoor holiday, and here in the Pioneer Valley it usually marks the slowest restaurant week of the year.

After steady monthly increases between November and March, Berkshire County's unemployment rate has dropped for the second straight month.

Depending on the grade level, kids today face an alphabet soup of exams-the SAT, the AP and, in Massachusetts, the state-mandated MCAS, which Berkshire County students in elementary, middle and high-school just finished taking for the year.

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.

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.

According to the clock in the Florida Senior Center, Friday's annual town meeting took 20 minutes flat.

The Selectmen will be accepting bids tonight for the installation of a solar photovoltaic system on the rooftop of the town offices.

A former Amherst woman known for her kindness and "sparkle" died June 4 after a brutal assault that left her clinging to life for more than a day.

A sudden burst of heavy rain swept across parts of Berkshire County on Monday afternoon, spawning flash floods in parts of Pittsfield that swamped homes, closed roads and stranded several motorists who had to be rescued by city police and firefighters.