Pittsfield News

There's still a dancer's pole located inside the former Munchies Pub on West Housatonic Street.

Cases heard before Judge Daniel Ford on Thursday, May 31. Monica Christina Prus , 26, of Ledyard, Conn.

"The corporations and the government have us all living like slaves. I can back it up with numbers, too -- in 1950 you could buy a brand new nine-room brick home in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, for the whopping sum of $11,500. A decent family car was about $500, and the gas for it was about 25 cents a gallon.

PITTSFIELD, Mass. - Berkshire Hills Bancorp, Inc. and Beacon Federal Bancorp, Inc.

The state Appeals Court has upheld a lower court's decision that the owner of several mobile home parks in the Berkshires violated the rights of a tenant by charging her late fees in the months when she had paid her rent.

The North Adams Housing Authority is already reaping the rewards of upgrades made to the heating systems at four properties in the city.

Mayor Daniel L. Bianchi says he's optimistic the Berkshire Car ou sel will find a home in the city, though the project's co-founder isn't willing to commit to such a move.

Spring may be the season of standardized tests in schools, but on Thursday, fifth-grade students and teachers at Stearns Elementary School learned creative ways to round the bases of education with some coaching from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

PITTSFIELD, Mass. - Police are cracking down even more on drunk driving starting this week.

On the lower right of this page, Sue Carlton of the Cox News Service writes about how one dumb prank or thoughtless action may have long-term repercussions.

PITTSFIELD, Mass. - Elder Services of Berkshire County has grant funding available for programs serving the elderly through Title III of the Older Americans Act.

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. - The North/Central Berkshire La Leche League Group is meeting in North Adams to provide breast feeding information and support to mothers in the region and Southern Vermont.

PITTSFIELD, Mass. - Berkshire Medical Center has again been named among the "100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare" by Becker's Hospital Review/Becker's ASC Review and the Beryl Companies.

For a man with a video camera, a Gregory Crewdson photo shoot is a pretty easy place to blend in.

A Pittsfield man was sentenced to a year in jail on Wednesday after he admitted to breaking into vehicles and stealing items inside, including credit cards that he used to purchase cigarettes and rent video games.

PITTSFIELD, Mass. - Miss Hall's School will welcome Tiffany Dufu, president of The White House Project, as keynote speaker of the school's 114th commencement on Sunday, June 3. Ceremonies begin at 11 a.m. at the Holmes Road school.

Two months after Harry's closed its Elm Street market, the four-acre parcel was purchased for $900,000 by Centennial Realty Holdings LLC, a real estate arm of Pittsfield Cooperative Bank, according to documents on file at the Middle Berkshire Registry of Deeds.

Barrington Stage Company announced complete casting for its Fiddler on the Roof , starring the previously mentioned Brad Oscar as Tevye and Joanna Glushak as Golde.

A Pittsfield man police say stole an exterminator's truck and led officers on a high-speed chase through the city has been ordered held on $100,000 bond on a variety of charges.

Organizers of the community-based project said on Monday they are still discussing with mall management the option of housing the carousel ride, which is scheduled to be ready a year from now, at the shopping complex.