Sheffield News

Instead of hitting the books, Great Barrington Waldorf High School freshman are forging iron.

If you had swung by the back field at Sheffield School in Turners Falls this past Wednesday, then you would have seen the usual flag football game that takes place twice a week.

Officials in charge of winter clothing programs for the needy say the amount of people looking for clothes has increased this year while the volume of clothes donated has decreased.

There's a new way of measuring MCAS scores, and some area school administrators believe it can give schools a boost in educating students.

Even firefighters need to be rescued sometimes. Seeking to raise money to complete the addition to their firehouse on Route 7, volunteer firemen from Hose Company No.

Wind gusts associated with a cold front that passed through the Berkshires on Wednesday afternoon knocked down trees and caused power outages in the southern and central sections of the county.

Look tomorrow for more photos and parade award results. More Fall Foliage events are set for Saturday.

In the wake of a fatal accident in Sheffield, the town has adopted a plan intended to provide better oversight of businesses that serve alcohol.

The owners of a well-established South County business are the latest local entrepreneurs being drawn to North Street, mainly due to the soon-to-be completed Beacon Cinema.

The plane, a Cessna 208 with a pilot and five passengers, hit the soybean field off Route 41 at about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, flames licking at its fuselage.

Everyone aboard got off safely after a plane belonging to a Saratoga County-based industrial cleaning company was forced to make an emergency landing Tuesday afternoon in the Berkshires.

Six people walked away from a plane crash in a field near the Connecticut border Tuesday afternoon, shortly before the plane burst into flames and forced the evacuation of nearby residents.

Two people aboard a small New York-bound plane escaped serious injury after it crashed and caught fire in the Berkshire County town of Sheffield, but police are evacuating nearby residents as a precaution.

The name-which connotes a natural yet rare stroke of beauty-is an appropriate one for Moon in the Pond Farm .

If man is fallible, a machine created by man can't be infallible. That's the premise a Pittsfield defense attorney is pushing to get Massachusetts to reach a legal consensus about the "efficacy and accuracy" of the Alcotest 7110, an alcohol-detection device commonly used in OUI cases.

National Grid plans to inspect overhead power lines locally and elsewhere in Berkshire County on Friday, Sept.

Victoria Aldam, Miranda Hope Shea, Rider Stanton, and William Palmer rehearse for Berkshire Theatre Festivals community production of Peter Pan.

Sat. through Sept., exhibition of memorabilia from the 1909 Tercentennial celebration, Robert Jenkins House.

A barrier-breaking board game designed to help school children reach for a higher education is looking to expand its horizons in the digital world.

There probably aren't a lot of reasons for 50 or so people to stay indoors on a sunny Sunday afternoon.