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The final Presidential Debate is taking place tonight between President Donald Trump and challenger and former Vice President, Joe Biden. The question is will it make a difference in the outcome of the election? Most experts think not.
Tonight’s debate will be handled a bit differently than the first…

Big Y has just announced that they will be closing all of their stores on Thanksgiving and the following day.

Four individuals were arrested during a coordinated drug seizure Tuesday night in Pittsfield and Springfield. Authorities seized approximately 13,500 bags of heroin, three firearms, and roughly $8,000 in cash resulting from several months of investigation into a Springfield based drug operation...

Pittsfield officials are urging residents to get a flu shot!  In a post to the City Hall Facebook page, they emphasis the flu is on the way and can carry the same symptoms as Covid-19.  It also mentions that you can have the flu and Covid-19 at the same time...

Carr Hardware, which operates stores in Pittsfield, Lee, Lenox, Great Barrington, and North Adams in Massachusetts and in Avon and Enfield in Connecticut, says that the success of its “Round-up for the Schools” campaign, in combination with the company's match, …

The Berkshire District Attorney’s Office secured a conviction in a serious domestic violence case on Monday despite the unavailability of the victim to testify.
Judge Laurie Macleod found 49-year-old Michael Lavigne, of North Adams, guilty on two counts of assault and battery on a hou…

According to Politico, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker is being vetted by the the team of presidential nominee Joe Biden. Baker is among a number of Republicans that are under consideration to fill Cabinet positions in a Biden administration if he were to be elected in November...

Berkshire Bank, a purpose-driven community bank with locations throughout New England, New York and the Mid-Atlantic, has announced the promotion of Lori Gazzillo Kiely to SVP, Regional President of Berkshire County, MA.
In her new role, Kiely will be responsible for coordinating collaboration amongs…

Michael DiCenzo will avoid being sent to prison for his defrauding of Greylock Federal Credit Union more than a decade ago. DiCenzo, of Pittsfield, had made a plea for clemency. The Berkshire Eagle reports that his plea was accepted on Monday in the bank fraud case dating to the start of the Obama p…

CONFIRMED Town Trick-or-Treating 2020
(All are Oct. 31 unless otherwise noted)
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Governor Charlie Baker, along with STEM Advisory Council Co-Chair Lt. Governor Karyn Polito, MIT President L. Rafael Reif, educators, business leaders and state officials kicked off the Third Annual Massachusetts STEM Week today.
Throughout this week in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, academic and…

A popular, longstanding downtown eatery has announced its closure.
Flavours of Malaysia located on McKay St. in Pittsfield announced via its Facebook page that they would be closing their doors at the end of this year.
To all our faithful friends and customers,
It is with sadness that we have made the …