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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…

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…

State and local leaders will be speaking at a rally in Pittsfield on Saturday. Joining concerned citizens across the country, a coalition of 10 Berkshire County advocacy groups have organized a rally in support of voting rights. More specifically, th…

Riders of Berkshire Regional Transit Authority buses need to be aware of some service changes that may impact them, especially those riding the fixed bus routes on weekdays and those that use the paratransit services.  
According to the BRTA website, the transit authority has been affected and impact…

Hazy Skies in the Berkshires today could have to do with the wildfires that are burning in the western U.S. It seems unbelievable, but according to AccuWeather forecasters, that could indeed be the case. 
Forecasters say that with nearly 120 wildfires burning across the western United …