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New Williams Inn Opens on Spring StreetBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:32AM / Saturday, August 17, 2019 | |
Chef Kevin DeMarco has put together a menu informed by local produce. He is part of leadership team appointed by Waterford Hotel Group, which manages the hotel for Williams College. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The new Williams Inn is positioned to be a catalyst for the town's retail center on Spring Street as well as a bucolic retreat for guests — as exampled by the deer grazing near the patio this week. "We really want to be an indoor/outdoor experience," said Kevin Hurley, the inn's general manager, during a press preview just days before the hotel's opening on Thursday. "We will see a lot of those features, again with the windows, 0 Comments
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Boys & Girls Club Announces Pebble Beach Golf Raffle| 05:35PM / Friday, August 16, 2019 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- The Boys and Girls Club of the Berkshires has announced that raffle tickets for a trip to the world renown Pebble Beach Golf Resorts located on the Monterrey Peninsula of California are now available. The winner will stay in the world class luxury accomodations at The Lodge at Pebble Beach which features an ocean side setting overlooking the famed 18th hole of The Pebble Bach Golf Links. The prize package includes one round for two of golf at the Pebble Beach Golf Links, and one round for two at Spyglass Hill Golf Course. The Pebble Beach Course is recognized as one of the most beautiful courses in the world as it hugs the coastline and opens up to 0 Comments
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 |  | Feeding the hungry
by buddy 04:12PM / Friday, February 21, 2014
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|  Williamstown Community Preschool Installs New Signage
by Billsville 02:46PM / Tuesday, February 26, 2013
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williamstown Community Preschool began sprucing up its new home by hiring local sign maker Lindsay Neathawk,
| Williamstown Youth Center Thanks Bedard Bros.
by Billsville 02:13PM / Friday, June 22, 2012
Bedard Brothers Chevrolet, through the Chevrolet Youth Soccer Program, has helped sponsor the Williamstown Youth Center's Soccer Program for the 2012 season. In addition to soccer equipment, this
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Williamstown's Kuster Qualifies for Olympic Trials| 05:26PM / Friday, August 16, 2019 | |
 The Harvard men's swimming and diving duo of Cole Kuster and Raphael Marcoux qualified for the 2020 Olympic Trials for the United States and Canada, respectively, this month. An incoming freshman, Williamstown resident and Purple Valley Aquatics swimmer Kuster competed at the USA Swimming Junior Nationals at Stanford's Avery Aquatic Center and qualified for Trials in three events. Kuster opened his time in Northern California with a seventh-place effort (15 minutes, 39.04 seconds) in the 1,500-meter freestyle last Tuesday before coming in third two days later in the 400 free (3:55.94). Kuster saved his best performance for last when he was the runner-up in the 800 free 0 Comments
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Biz Briefs: Jacob's Pillow Founder’s Property on the Market| 11:29AM / Friday, August 16, 2019 | |
 Property for sale William Pitt Sotheby's International Realty has listed a 19th-century compound in the town of Chester formerly owned by the founder of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. The estate is listed for $685,000 and is represented by Great Barrington/Lenox agent Stephanie McNair.
Ted Shawn lived on the property in the 1930s during which he founded what would become the country's oldest internationally celebrated summer dance festival in Becket, but the seeds of Jacob's Pillow are found here in Chester. The property, nestled on a hilltop overlooking 73 acres, provides opportunity for swimming, tennis and hiking.
According to McNair, this was the original dance
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Pittsfield Native Returns Home to Join Smith, Watson & Company| 10:54AM / Friday, August 16, 2019 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — CPA Jeffrey D. Belair of Pittsfield has been admitted as a partner at Smith, Watson & Company,, a full-service, regional based, public accounting and advisory firm with offices in Pittsfield, Great Barrington, North Adams and Lakeville, Conn.
Belair has more than 15 years of public accounting experience advising individuals, including business executives, owners and their families with the numerous aspects of wealth accumulation and transfer. Specializing in tax, he offers clients extensive experience and insight related to complex individual tax compliance and strategy, financial and philanthropic planning, and trust and estate design.
"As we continue
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Berkshire County Arc Announces New Senior Employment Manager| 09:43AM / Friday, August 16, 2019 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire County Arc has named Kyle Harvey as senior employment manager of Employment Services.
She will oversee the three employment managers, as well as her own caseload of some 35 individuals employed around the Berkshire County region.
"Kyle has a keen sense for matching the people we serve with appropriate employment situations, and growing the relationships," said Kenneth W. Singer, BCArc's president and CEO. "Today we have more than 130 employers who have hired our individuals, and Kyle deserves a lot of credit for identifying and nurturing new partners."
Kyle started at BCArc in 1984, where she worked as a residential director of
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A Profusion of Music at Tanglewood, SevenarsBy Stephen Dankner, Guest Column
11:41AM / Wednesday, August 14, 2019 | |
 Come mid-August, classical aficionados are grateful for the cornucopia of extraordinary musical riches the Boston Symphony bestows to rapt audiences within the incomparably bucolic setting that is Tanglewood.
During this penultimate week of the Tanglewood Festival's classical programming, the spotlight will focus on a range of music in varied genres: from orchestral music by Brahms, Zoltan Kodály, György Ligeti and György Kurtág performed by The Knights chamber orchestra and featuring the superb violinist Gil Shaham, to more Brahms and some rare Schumann performed by the Boston Symphony, to favorite symphonic masterworks by Sibelius, Hindemith and Mahler
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Bring Your Light Sabers: Star Wars Returns, Plus Martha Graham Dancers, Chris SmitherBy Grace Lichtenstein, Guest Column
11:18AM / Wednesday, August 14, 2019 | |
 John Williams' music is a familiar sound in the Berkshires, and this season is no different. In addition, a legendary choreographer's company at the Pillow plus folkie Chris Smither at the Guthrie Center add up to a lively week. Tanglewood "Star Wars" returns to the Berkshires on Friday, Aug. 16, from a galaxy far, far … well, you know. This year it's the film "Star Wars: A New Hope," shown on the screen, as the Boston Pops Orchestra accompanies it with the live John Williams score. This is the fourth episode of the series, if you are keeping count. Keith Lockhart, an old hand at music/film projections, is the conductor. More info and tickets can be
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Business Owners: You Need Your Own Retirement PlanSubmitted by Edward Jones,
10:22AM / Wednesday, August 14, 2019 | |
 As a business owner, you can't afford to ignore your competition. You can't afford to miss out on the trends affecting your industry. You can't afford to alienate customers. And here's one more item to add to the list: You can't afford not to create a retirement plan for yourself.
Of course, you might think that, one day, you will simply sell your business and live off the proceeds. But selling a business isn't always simple, and there's no guarantee you will receive enough to pay for a comfortable retirement – which is why you should strongly consider creating a retirement plan now.
Here are some of the most widely used plans:
SEP-IRA: You can
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BHS, Berkshire Orthopaedics Further Expand Care| 10:17AM / Wednesday, August 14, 2019 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Orthopaedic Associates, an affiliate of Berkshire Health Systems, has continued to expand comprehensive orthopaedic and sports medicine care with the addition of two highly skilled surgeons.
Doctors Christina G. Kane and Ashley R. Miller have joined Berkshire Orthopaedic Associates, partnered with Drs. Kevin Mitts, Mark Sprague, Jeffrey Cella, Jarod Goodrich, David Grygier, James Parkinson and Daniel Sage.
Both Kane and Miller are accepting new patients. Both physicians will provide care in Pittsfield, and Dr. Kane will also be providing orthopaedic and sports medicine services in North Adams.
Dr. Kane received her medical degree from the University
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BHS, Berkshire Orthopaedic Associates Present Sports Injury Prevention Event| 10:12AM / Wednesday, August 14, 2019 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The physicians of Berkshire Orthopaedic Associates, an affiliate of Berkshire Health Systems, will be on hand, in collaboration with experts in rehabilitation and concussion care, for a free community event focusing on preventing sports injuries.
"We Know You Love Your Sport: Here's How You Can Stay Safe and Healthy" will be held on Monday, Sept. 9, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the Country Club of Pittsfield. Specialists will discuss concussion management, knee injury prevention, and lower leg, ankle and foot injury prevention.
The program will feature doctors Kevin Mitts, Anthony Defelice, Jarod Goodrich, James Parkinson, Mark Sprague, and the two
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North Adams Peebles Store Changing Name, FocusBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
04:50PM / Tuesday, August 13, 2019 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Peebles Department Store in the downtown is going to be turned into a Gordmans, a discount retailer, early next year.
The 13-year-old store has been having a major summer sale over the past two months but the words "closing" appeared in the windows on Monday. The store will close in the days leading up to the grand opening of the new Goodmans early next year.
Blakeley Graham, brand publicity manager for Peebles' parent company Stage Stores, confirmed that the location would remain in the Stage family.
"Both Peebles and Gordmans are part of the Stage community of stores. Gordmans is an off-price retailer, which means that it has a wide array
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