Dalton News

There were remains of birthday cake in the kitchen and the gifts to her daughter Sophie, just turned 1, were still shiny and new when Emily Baldwin began writing thank-you notes.

Robert J. Daley, Letishia A. Daley and Robert Daley sold property at 3949-3951 Jacobs Ladder Road, Route 20, Becket, for $500,000 to Diana U. Mott.

It's New Year's Eve. Do you know where you'll be? For those of you making last-minute plans, there are a couple of additions to the New Year's Eve party list which ran in The 413 last Thursday.

The Pittsfield Licensing Board has ordered a Wahconah Street bar to serve a three-day liquor license suspension during the New Year's holiday.

Mrs. Karen Blefari teaches second grade at St. Agnes School in Dalton. A few weeks ago, Mrs.

The last time Andres Lopez visited the LTI Smart Glass Inc. plant on Federico Drive in Pittsfield, he described it as "skeletal." The process of relocating the plant from Melbourne, Fla., to the Berkshires had just begun, and the company was struggling to fund its move.

An estimated 3,000 customers in Salem and Lynn lost electricity early yesterday morning, according to National Grid.

Victoria Gamberoni spent the past two weeks earning money by performing chores around her home, for her grandparents and other family members.

The town of Dalton has received legislative support in its effort to improve unused sites and boost economic development in the community.

Seven parcels of land valued at nearly $500,000 were successfully auctioned by the town Saturday at the Dalton Town Hall.

A local man was arrested Wednesday morning after allegedly assaulting a woman who denied him sex.

The future of a potential biofuel plant here is uncertain, as the state Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs has placed a moratorium on biomass energy plants in the Massachusetts, pending a state review of their environmental effects.

Investigators continue to probe a fatal crash that took the lives of an elderly Dalton couple on Route 9 Monday afternoon.

The front hallway of the Dalton Community Recreation Association almost looked like a small outlet mall, with more than 200 coats and jackets filling up the room.

The band Poor Becket Rebels kick back during an interview at The Becket General Store.

More than half of Berkshire County's 32 cities and towns are still awaiting the state's certification of local property values and tax rates, a delay that continues to prevent local tax assessors from mailing tax bills and collecting the revenue.

Berkshire Bank on Monday formally opened the retail office of its new regional headquarters in Springfield, which is intended to serve as a new hub for the bank's 15 banking and insurance branches in the Pioneer Valley.

Not many gifts will pay off seven to one. Yet, that's what Hilltown givers to the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation's Neighbor-to-Neighbor Fund will leverage if they make their donations to the fund by Dec.

It seems clear enough to anyone looking for villages and neighborhoods in Berkshire County that the more built up the town or city, the less obvious are its separate communities.

This is Part 2 of an occasional series on invasive plants. It is the holiday season, and even if you only celebrate autumn, we should all be aware of our choice of outdoor decorations - specifically live plant materials gathered in field and forest, and especially between the two.