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McCormick has issued a voluntary recall on three of its products due to salmonella concerns. If you have any of them in your home, throw them away immediately.

Congressman Richard Neal visited the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield on Monday to announce roughly $3,7 Million in funding from the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Shuttered Venues Operation Grant program.  
The grant money a…

The personal finance site WalletHub recently released its latest rankings of the best school systems in America, and Massachusetts came out on top!

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about the Delta Variant of the coronavirus and how it has been spreading in some parts of the country. Has this affected our thinking here in the Berkshires? 
Have you started to notice that more and more people in the Berkshires are…

Do you live for the “E”? Fans of the television show ‘Seinfeld’ might recall the episode in which Kramer takes a car for a test drive with the salesman in the passenger seat and decides he wants to push the car as far as it will g…

Camp Meade in Middlesex, Vermont is doing something very cool, that I’m sure could work here in the Berkshires... Girls Rock Vermont! It’s a very similar concept to the “Rock On” camp that we have here in the Berkshires, but this one i…

The Berkshire Music School has some good news regarding scholarship programs! 
According to a news release, the school is enhancing its scholarship program to support musicians of all ages, backgrounds, and levels of experience.  
Newly appoint...

Motor vehicle deaths are the leading cause of death for children aged 1-9 in the US. According to the home security website Safewise.com, 495 children under the age of 10 and 433 children aged 10 to 15 were killed in car accidents in 2019. 
A new study of...

Applications are now being accepted for the City of Pittsfield’s Citizens Academy, which will begin in late August.  
The Citizens Academy, now in its third year, is a free, 10-week session program designed to help community members understand the operations of local governm…

You may or not be familiar with the Dennis Quaid series, Viewpoint. It’s a Public Television program that is described as being “dedicated to the mission of developing and distributing social and educational programming about our neighbors, our community, and world.&C…