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Snow is expected to continue through this afternoon, so if you are planning on heading out, you are advised to use caution. The National Weather Service in Albany posted on its Facebook page earlier today that there will be brief periods of reduced visibility and gusty winds possible as snow showers…

Berkshire Community College launched a Collegiate Recovery Community for its students last fall and will expand its efforts into the spring 2021 semester and beyond. According to the college’s website, The recovery community, Students for Recovery at BCC, is a shared space for studen…

What a difference a day makes? Governor Charlie Baker announced during his daily briefing today (Thursday) that beginning Monday (Jan.25) the Stay-at-Home advisory, asking state residents to not be out from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m., will be lifted...

As we continue to ride out the coronavirus pandemic, our children are spending more and more time online and on platforms such as the Zoom Meeting platform – but how do we know our kids are safe from all the threats that are out there in these virtual spaces...

More than 80 residents and staff have contracted COVID-19 inside a Pittsfield nursing home.

The Berkshire Hills Regional School District will be getting back to in-person learning later in January. The Berkshire Eagle is reporting that in an email to families of the school district on Wednesday, Superintendent Peter Dillion wrote that COVID-19 data trends were "getting better&…

As COVID-19 vaccine distribution continues across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the state moves through the various phases of this effort, Governor Charlie Baker’s administration is moving forward with efforts to make the vaccines available to everyone...

Another Mega Millions drawing without a Mega Millions winner.  Last night’s drawing was worth $850 million if all 6 ping pong balls matched up with the 6 numbers on your ticket.  The winning numbers were 10-19-26-28-50 and 16. A total of 9 tickets sold matched 5 numbers wit…

Berkshire County held it’s third COVID-19 vaccination clinic on Tuesday at the Berkshire Community College.

Are you concerned about the new COVID-19 variant? Now that we have the COVID-19 vaccines being distributed in phases in the Commonwealth, should we be overly concerned over the recent announcement about a new variant of the virus being detected here...