Bascom Lodge slates Wednesday evening discussion series beginning May 19

The lodge on top of Mount Greylock, which opened last fall after a two-year rennovation of the state reservation's access road, is planning a Wednesday evening discussion series beginning May 19, lodge operators say.

On Tuesday, March 30, at 9 a.m. the lodge was to be featured on Pittsfield's WBRK, 1340 AM & 101.7 FM. During the radio program: "GOT GAME! GOT GREEN!," hosted by Fidel Moreno, Peter Dudek will discuss the Events Calendar for the coming season at Bascom Lodge.

See: http://bascomlodge.net/Events.html

The lodge opens May 15 and every Wednesday evening it will host a free talk series concerning nature and culture in the Berkshires. In addition other evenings will feature workshops, book signings collaborative projects, music and more.

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Woman follows mom’s footsteps in welcoming newcomers - North Adams Transcript

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WMHT joins 4 public broadcasting stations to start local journalism center - Albany Business Review

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WMHT joins 4 public broadcasting stations to start local journalism center Albany Business Review The funding also will support a new interactive web portal. "This will allow us to do radio, Web, interactive and TV content and share it with stations ... and more »

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North Adams mayor to answer questions on Time-Warner cable Channel 18 tonight

Attorney Richard Taskin of North Adams advises that North Adams Mayor
Richard Alcombright will be answering questions live on Channel 17 tonight
(Thursday) at 8 p.m. Taskin says, "I think that means it will be avialble
to Williamstown cable viewers."

Jonathan Kozol to speak

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Tuesday March 23, 2010



NORTH ADAMS -- The modern public education system in the United States has fallen away from the child, according to Jonathan Kozol.

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Chicken pox confirmed

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Thursday March 18, 2010

NORTH ADAMS -- Despite the common perception that chicken pox has been eradicated by a childhood vaccine, over a dozen cases of the virus have been confirmed by local pediatricians' offices this week.

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Brindle named VP at Hoosac, Williamstown Savings

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Paul Brindle has been named vice president of commercial lending for Hoosac Bank and Williamstown Savings Bank, according to an announcement by Ryan Leap, senior vice president of commercial lending.

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Wednesday March 17, 2010 North Adams Transcript WILLIAMSTOWN -- With nomination papers for town elections due in a week, there are still two committee seats that have no candidates. Town Clerk Mary C. Kennedy said no one has taken out nomination papers for a three-year term on the Williamstown Elementary School Committee and a four-year term on the Housing Authority.

 

 

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Mount Greylock district consolidation vote rescheduled until April

Supt. William Travis of the Mount Greylock Regional School District says the school board has postponed until its mid-April meeting any vote on whether to join a consolidation of school districts with elementary schools in Lanesborough and Williamstown.

In an email message, Travis said the school's fiscal-year 2011 budget will be the focus of deliberations at next week's Tuesday, March 16 meeting.

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Students camp out for clean energy

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WILLIAMSTOWN -- All this week Williams College students will sleep outside in tents to raise awareness about a statewide effort to power Massachusetts with 100 percent clean electricity by 2020.

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Williamstown to Celebrate MapleFest

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MapleFest, the town's annual maple syrup celebration, is set to take place this Saturday, March 13, in Hopkins Memorial Forest.

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Berkshire Living magazine says it is finalist for six national awards

The publisher of Berkshire Living magazine, Michael Zivyak, says his publication is a finalist for six awards from the national city and regional magazine awards, including repeat awards for general excellence, community service, and general criticism.

Of the 74 magazines in the contest, 38 publications received nominations, and 22 of these received multiple nominations, Zivyak added.

The magazine is also being
honored for its recent redesign, and once again, its two sister magazines, BBQ: Berkshire Business Quarterly and Berkshire Living Home+Garden, are finalists in the Best Ancillary publication category, Zivyak said in a email statement.

The independently owned Berkshire Living is one of only nine magazines in the nation to win six or more nominations, Zivyak said -- the others all being big-city magazines including Los Angeles, Texas Monthly, Chicago, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Boston, Cincinnati and 5280 (Denver).

Editor-in-chief and cultural critic Seth Rogovoy once again faces off against writers from Los Angeles and Texas Monthly magazine for the General Criticism award, for his column, "The Beat Goes On," Zivyak said. The magazine's Rest of the Story program, free public forums that takes place at the Triplex Cinema in Great Barrington, Mass., has been nominated for Community Service in all four years of its existence.

Magazine professionals from around the country chose 142 finalists representing 38 publications in the 25-year-old National City and Regional Magazine Association's awards competition. Magazines of varying circulations competed in 29 categories, including editorial, design, online and ancillary publications. Judges named five finalists in most categories and will choose one ultimate winner in each. The awards for work completed in 2009 will be announced at the CRMA 34th Annual Conference June 5-7 at the Westin Providence in Providence, R.I.

Our Town highlights Main Stage at WTF this summer

Thornton Wilder's "Our Town," highlights the planned summer season of the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the last one for artistic director Nicholas Martin. It will play on the MainStage July 28-Aug. 8 with a cast including Becky Ann Baker, Dylan Baker, Jessica Hecht and Campbell Scott as the townsfolk. "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," will open the WTF June 30, directed by Jessica Stone, with the Tony-nominated actor Christopher Fitzgerald. This information comes tonight from The New York Times website, which posted about 6 p.m. a story that wouldn't be in print until Monday. There's nothing on the WTF website. The Times also said beginning June 23 Judy Gold will perform her new one-woman play, "It's Jewdy's Show," on the Nikos Stage, a follow-up to her "25 Questions for a Jewish Mother." Also in the lineup, the Times said -- Amy Herzog's "After the Revolution," a new play about three generations of a radical leftist family, which was developed from the fes!
tival's fellowship project last summer, and "Samuel J. and K.," by Mat Smart, also to be presented on the Nikos Stage.

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Water well construction hits a snag

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Saturday March 6, 2010 North Adams Transcript



WILLIAMSTOWN -- Just when one problem plaguing the construction of a new well was under control, another one has arisen in the past week.



Public Works Director Timothy A. Kaiser said Friday efforts to finish the well off Stetson Road have halted temporarily after six or seven attempts to install a screen at the bottom of it failed.

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Farm gears up for syrup season

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Saturday March 6, 2010 North Adams Transcript



ADAMS -- The taps are flowing, the boilers are warmed up and sugar is solidifying as maple syrup season has begun in North County.



Up at the Ziemba Farm on East Road, Mike Ziemba said they had just started maple syrup production this week when the weather began cooperating.

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Berkshire native will be next 'Bachelorette' - Bennington Banner

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Berkshire native will be next 'Bachelorette' Bennington Banner WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Ali Fedotowsky, the 25-year-old local woman who chose work over love in leaving ABC's reality show "The Bachelor: On the Wings of ... and more »

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ABC Announces New Bachelorette

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Ali Fedotowsky has finally decided to risk it all for love. The energetic and charismatic career-oriented woman from San Francisco has re-prioritized her life - and now love comes out on top.

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For art lovers, Western Mass. awaits - Boston Globe

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Big screen film nights for free California Chronicle Images Cinema on Spring Street in Williamstown is having its annual Oscar party tonight starting at 7:30. Film trivia master and funny man Eric Kerns, ...

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