North Adams News

The Artery Lounge was handed a 60-day suspension and a significant reduction in hours following the stabbing incident outside the bar on Saturday morning.

As an art educator for the past 23 years, in New York City and North Adams, I have always promoted the need for art education.

A meeting of the Northern Berkshire Interfaith Action Initiative at 10 a.m. on Friday, June 21, at First Baptist Church will feature a discussion of hospice care with Gloria Richard of VNA & Hospice of Northern Berkshire.

Scheduled today in Pittsfield, Dalton and Richmond on Time Warner Cable Channel 16, except as indicated.

A verbal advisement is given and no arrests are made. 7:15 a.m.: Police respond to a reported disturbance on Columbus Avenue.

Anne French, right, coordinator of the service-learning program in North Adams Public Schools, is presented a state service and volunteerism Award recently by Kristen McKinnon, secretary to the Massachusetts Service Alliance board of directors and service-learning coordinator for the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts staff, students and Mayor Richard Alcombright showed off the school's galleries downtown to state Sen. Michael Moore, D-Worcester, on Monday morning.

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. - You see them everywhere during construction season - deep trenches with crews working on water and sewer pipes, foundations, electrical lines.

Alec Walt teaches second grade Haitian students how to form letters and work out math problems during a volunteer trip to the country through the St. Mary's Parish Youth Group in Longmeadow.

Eight members of Brownie Troop 7 were honored at the annual fly-up at the Broad Brook School Tuesday that marked their advancement to junior girl scouts.

Two Pittsfield men have been arrested and a local bar had its liquor license suspended after a Saturday morning melee on Union Street saw two stabbed and another struck in the head with a bottle, according to authorities.

Lavigne also admitted to sufficient facts and was found responsible for possessing an open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle.

Picture it: As the long Northern Berkshire winter descends on the city, children begin to look forward to ice skating -- at the Peter W. Foote Vietnam Veterans Memorial Skating Rink, yes, but also at one of the ponds in an "Emerald Necklace" of parks constructed along the Hoosic River.

The North Adams Transcript reports that the bar's liquor license was suspended after the Saturday morning melee.

Two people were stabbed and another was struck in the head with a bottle during a melee involving 20 to 30 people near the Artery Lounge early Saturday morning, according to North Adams Police Director Michael Cozzaglio.

The Hoosic River Revival will hold its community conversation on Saturday, June 15, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at St. Elizabeth Parish Center.

A city woman was displaced from her apartment at 32 Isbell St. on Friday after a fire destroyed the contents of her home.

Mayor Richard J. Alcombright told the Finance Committee Thursday night that the city is looking at an investment of $1.8 million to $2 million in the transfer station in the near future; a move that would keep the state Department of Environmental Protection from fining the city and solve the bigger issue of scattered trash billowing in the wind.

Scheduled today in Pittsfield, Dalton and Richmond on Time Warner Cable Channel 16, except as indicated.

But a Holocaust museum is exactly what Darrell English has opened here, just down the street from the local hot spot, Jack's Hot Dog Stand.