Richmond News

The threat of a Zebra Mussel infestation in one or more lakes in Berkshire County has been known to local and state officials for at least three years so that the discovery of the scourge at Laurel Lake in Lee should not have surprised them.

Tom and Loretta Tenuta have turned a downstairs space in the back of the town's post office off Route 41 into a catering/coffee/cafe spot that has already attracted a host of fans just a few months into the venture.

Former Adams resident and radio host Sean Baker has been chronicling his adventures in unemployment on The Forecaster site in Maine.

Forty-four students graduated Sunday during Miss Hall's School's 111th Commencement.

While the Berkshire hills are being eyed as the primary location for wind power projects on state-owned land, turbines aren't likely to start popping up anytime soon, state officials said Wednesday during a public input session at Berkshire Community College.

State police say a Pittsfield man has died in a motorcycle crash in Richmond. Police say the Harley-Davidson operated by 44-year-old Todd Stanton went off Swamp Road and struck some trees at about 2:45 p.m. on Wednesday.

The entire staff, or nearly so, at Dr. Tom Edward's Berkshire Allergy Care in Pittsfield were more excited last Tuesday than I have ever seen them before.

Voters at the annual town meeting coasted through the $5 million budget but hit a roadblock when they considered construction on winding Lenox Road.

It was a party a decade in the making. On Saturday night, more than 800 people packed the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Arts to celebrate the institution's 10th anniversary.

The Furnace Brook Winery is nestled in the middle of an apple Orchard in Richmond, Massachusetts.

While the Mount Greylock Regional School Committee approved three-year tuition agreements with Hancock and New Ashford in February, negotiations were reopened following concerns about the rates being too costly for the small towns.

Every now and then, you can judge a book by its cover. The cover art on Barry Sternlieb's award-winning "Winter Crows," is a beautiful woodcut depicting crows scavanging in the snow under a stand of birch trees.

When 70 Chinese immigrants arrived in the city in 1870 to break a strike at the Sampson Shoe Factory, it was unknown what type of impact the group of young men would have in the area.

Richmond resident Jennifer L. Michaels, M.D., a physician with The Brien Center in Pittsfield, has been named 2009 Community Clinician of the Year by her physician peers of the Berkshire County District Medical Society.

Two city residents have been charged in connection with a series of residential break-ins in Pittsfield and neighboring Richmond, according to prosecutors with the Berkshire District Attorney's office.

As South County's two largest regional school districts prepare to study consolidation efforts, the four other districts mentioned as possibly joining the study have mixed thoughts on making changes.

The Massachusetts Municipal Association on Friday briefed a group of local and state officials on its positions on fiscal 2010 budget issues during a legislative breakfast at the Berkshire Athenaeum.

A convicted sex offender who survived a gun attack in 2007 is facing new charges that he robbed a Pittsfield taxi driver.

The state's lone remaining family-owned telecommunications business has agreed to be acquired by an integrated communications provider located in Troy, N.Y., a transaction that should benefit both sides, ...

The list includes a psychiatrist who was last known to be living in Salem and a hairstylist from Richmond, Mass., who may have fled to New Jersey.