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Berkshire, Massachusetts is located in Berkshire County. Zip codes in Berkshire, MA include 01224.

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17 hrs ago | Berkshire Eagle

Berkshire County: Volunteer drivers needed for cancer patients

The American Cancer Society's Road to Recovery program is in need of volunteers from Berkshire communities to drive local cancer patients to and from their chemotherapy and/or radiation treatments.

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Mon Jun 17, 2013

IBerkshires

956 North Main St Lanesboro

Lovely Post & Beam home nestled in a quiet location set on 38 acres! This light filled 3 bedroom contemporary has all the country charm that a Post & beam offers along with plenty of acreage to enjoy the outdoors.

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North Adams Transcript

Berkshire trash haulers see increase in recycling

A pair of local trash haulers report a spike in residential recycling thanks to a more user- and eco-friendly recycling program they introduced to Berkshire County several months ago.

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Go Local

Massachusetts' Best Communities 2013

From the tiniest Berkshire villages to the urban canyons of Boston, where is the best place in the region to live, whether you're a young single, a starting family, or empty-nesters? What city or town combines affordability, safety, schools, arts, culture and recreation and nightlife in the very best balance? GoLocalWorcester's 2nd Annual ... (more)

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Sun Jun 16, 2013

IBerkshires

54 Gibbs Rd Blandford

Few properties touch the heart, amaze the eyes, and stir the soul as this one does.

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Fri Jun 14, 2013

Berkshire Eagle

Berkshire County: Performing arts venues offer half-price tickets

Barrington Stage Company and the Berkshire Visitors Bureau offer 1/2 TIX again in 2013, a program administered through a partnership between the two organizations.

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IBerkshires

Cultural Pittsfield: June 14-20

You're invited to the opening reception for PaperWorks: The Art and Science of an Extraordinary Material , a new exhibition that explores paper as a source of creative inspiration and innovation.

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Thu Jun 13, 2013

North Adams Transcript

Western Mass. under floodwatch as rainy weather continues

For the third time in the past six days, Western Massachusetts is under a flood watch -- this time for a rainstorm that could drench southern portions of the county with up to 2 inches of rain by Friday afternoon.

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Wed Jun 12, 2013

North Adams Transcript

Organizations receive $300K grant to stem opiate addiction in county

The solution is part awareness, part treatment, part prevention and part judicial -- and all better funded now that the area has been awarded a multi-year state grant to stem opiate addiction in Berkshire County.

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Sun Jun 09, 2013

IBerkshires

22 Linden Ln Hinsdale

Berkshire lake cottage directly across the way from the private association beach, giving you complete water access, swimming, fishing ,boating, with out the lakefront price tag.

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Sat Jun 08, 2013

Berkshire Eagle

Designer's new business looks at linen

The country was in an economic recession in 2009, but William Caligari refused to sit around and wait for the rebound.

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Thu Jun 06, 2013

Berkshire Eagle

Many Berkshire residents upset about government data collection

She admits that most of her telephone conversations contain "jibber-jabber," but would prefer that the federal government doesn't know about them.

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Berkshire Eagle

In Ned Goldreyer play, the last two Jews in Kabul make peace

Sitting down to read The New York Times one day eight years ago, he stumbled on a startling headline -- Isaac Levy, one of the last two Jewish people living in Kabul, Afghanistan, had died.

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Berkshire Eagle

Critic's pick: Art brings respite and rescue

The biggest and most significant will be the new art space Mass MoCA opens this fall for the work of celebrated German artist Anselm Kiefer.

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Wed Jun 05, 2013

Berkshire Eagle

Critic's pick: Berkshire theater stretches family ties

Tina Packer, right, and Elizabeth Aspenlieder will play mother and daughter in The Beauty Queen of Leenane, a dark Irish comedy at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox in August.

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Berkshire Eagle

Berkshire Lyric chorus marks 50 years in Pittsfield

Ninety voices are singing in Russian, softening the gutteral sound into a rush that builds like the beginning of rain.

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IBerkshires

Northern Berkshire Coalition Celebrates At...

The Northern Berkshire Community Coalition celebrated its accomplishments and work over the past year with officials, residents and community leaders - including three of Berkshire County's college presidents - at its 27th annual meeting Tuesday afternoon.

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Tue Jun 04, 2013

Berkshire Eagle

Our opinion: Highway funding held hostage

Governor Deval Patrick is using the Chapter 90 highway money as a poker chip in his high-stakes game with the Legislature over transportation money.

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Berkshire Eagle

Ducklings rescued after falling through storm drain at shopping plaza

As Dalton resident Rebecca Besaw and her daughter Riley Kincaid were driving through the Berkshire Crossing shopping plaza Monday afternoon, they noticed a mother duck and her half-dozen ducklings walking along the street.

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Mon Jun 03, 2013

Berkshire Eagle

Our opinion: Any room for the inns?

Pittsfield's hotel wars are becoming increasingly vicious and litigious, with developers for proposed projects on South Street and Dan Fox Drive in close proximity to one another angling for an advantage.

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