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MCLA Graduates Handed Keys to Open Future DoorsBy Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
09:45PM / Saturday, May 18, 2013 | |
Senior Class President Elizabeth Mullen leads the graduates through the gates; MCLA trustees Chairman Tyler Fairbank honors Diane Patrick. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The graduates of Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts were handed the keys to a multitude of doors on Saturday, along with some encouragement to "squeeze the bottom of an ant" should the need arise.
Commencement speaker Diane Patrick, wife of Gov. Deval Patrick, said MCLA was special place to her because of the efforts of its President Mary Grant, faculty and trustees in championing a liberal arts education for students from across a diverse spectrum.
"This one recognizes that a degree that
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County First Responders Honored For 'Saves'By Andy McKeever, iBerkshires Staff
03:38AM / Saturday, May 18, 2013 | |
 Lawrence Brothers, in the middle, helped present the awards to the first responders who saved his life. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Hospice Care of the Berkshires security guard Lawrence Brothers almost died on Aug. 28, 2012. But thanks to a few well-trained co-workers and local first responders, he is doing just fine.
Brothers suffered a cardiac arrest at work. Emergency services were called and police, fire and Action Ambulance personnel were rushing to respond but in the meantime, five Hospice staff members initiated CPR and mouth-to-mouth. They alternated compression and ventilation to keep blood flowing until the first responders arrived.
Police and firefighters soon arrived
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Ashuwillticook Rail Trail Expansion Discussed at ForumBy John Durkan, iBerkshires Staff
05:01PM / Friday, May 17, 2013 | |
 The five-person panel consisted of state Rep. Gailanne Cariddi, Douglas Plachcinski of the Berkshire Regional Planning Commission, Town Administrator Jonathan Butler, Mayor Richard Alcombright and Lauren Stevens of the Hoosic River Watershed Association. ADAMS, Mass. — A five-person panel discussed the successes so far and the challenges on extending the Ashuwillticook Rail Trail to Hodges Cross Road in North Adams at the Adams Visitors Center on Thursday evening. The plans are still moving forward, with the approximately $1.9 million extension to Lime Street expected to be completed by mid-2014. North Adams Mayor Richard Alcombright is already looking beyond that 0 Comments
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@theMarket: 1995 Redux?By Bill Schmick,
04:30PM / Friday, May 17, 2013 | |
 By my reckoning, this leg of the stock market rally began about a week after the presidential elections. The rally overall has been going on much longer. The question everyone is asking is how long it can go on without a major correction.
If one looks back through history, the chances of the S&P 500 Index continuing to move higher without at least a 4 percent pullback is slim at best. There has been only one year in recent history, 1995, where the market continued higher throughout the year without any kind of significant pullback.
I remember that year well, and there are both similarities and difference between 1995 and today. Back then, U.S. unemployment was below 6 percent. Today
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iBerkshire Tag Sales: May 18 &19| 02:15PM / Friday, May 17, 2013 | |
 iBerkshires.com's FREE tag sale listing are back for the summer. Send your tag sale information — address, date, time and a brief description — info@iberkshires.com by 5 p.m. on Thursday. We'll post by Friday afternoon for the weekend listings. You can download the map and the listings, or use it on your smart phone. Have suggestions for our tag sale listings? Let us know at info@iberkshires.com. Not too many tag sales this week, but we're sure they'll pick up as the warm days continue. View Berkshire County Tag Sales, May 18 &19 in a full screen map 0 Comments
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Berkshire Bank Foundation Awards 8 Scholarships| 11:38AM / Friday, May 17, 2013 | |
 Toby Alves Jr. of Charles H. McCann Technical School in North Adams with his surprise Berkshire Bank Foundation Scholarship. See more photos on the Berskhire Bank Facebook page. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire Bank has selected 30 high school seniors to receive a total of $45,000 in scholarships through its Berkshire Bank Foundation Scholarship Awards Program. Each of the recipients will receive $1,500.
A total of 134 employee volunteers reviewed nearly 200 applications to select the winners. The winners all live in the regions served by Berkshire Bank, including communities in Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut and Vermont.
The Berkshire County recipients were all surprised with
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Wahconah High Graduate Killed in AfghanistanStaff Reports, iBerkshires
10:16PM / Thursday, May 16, 2013 | |
 Army Spc. Mitchell Daehling of Dalton was reportedly killed in action in Afghanistan earlier this week. : The Defense Department on Friday afternoon confirmed that Army Spec. Mitchell Daehling and two others died May 14 "of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device."
Daehling and Spc. William J. Gilbert, 24, of Hacienda Heights, Calif., were assigned to 3rd Battalion, 41st Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, based in Fort Bliss, Texas.
Sgt. 1st Class Jeffrey C. Baker, 29, of Hesperia, Calif., was assigned to 766th Ordnance Company, 63rd Ordnance Battalion, 52nd Ordnance Group, of Fort Stewart,
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The Independent Investor: Sticker Shock in Housing MarketBy Bill Schmick,
04:43PM / Thursday, May 16, 2013 | |
 The housing market has been in the doldrums so long that most of us believe that when we are ready to buy a new home there will be plenty of deals out there. Think again, the rising costs of everything from land to labor are causing new home prices to climb.
As U.S. residential real estate begins to rebound from its worst downturn since the Great Depression, the pace of recovery is beginning to cause bottlenecks in all sorts of areas. Suppliers of various building materials, for example, after shutting down much of their operations over the last few years, suddenly are besieged with orders from homebuilders across the nation. Unfortunately, it will take time, money and a willingness to
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Holocaust Survivor to Speak at Clarksburg School| 12:59PM / Thursday, May 16, 2013 | |
 CLARKSBURG, Mass. — The Clarksburg Elementary School hosts the culmination of its annual Holocaust studies program on Wednesday, May 22, beginning at 6 p.m. at the school.
This year's presentation, "I Am A Yellow Star," includes more than 250 artifacts from the Holocaust and World War II.
Featured speaker Inge Auerbacher is the author of "I am a Star — Child of the Holocaust," which details the German-born immigrant's experiences in the Terezin (Theresienstadt) concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. Auerbacher was only 7 years old when she was placed in the camp and one of few children of the 15,000 detained there to survive.
Auerbacher has
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'The Great Gatsby': A Bit Jazzed-UpBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
10:46AM / Thursday, May 16, 2013 | |
 Popcorn Column
by Michael S. Goldberger
Warner Brothers Too bad the 1926, silent version of "The Great Gatsby," filmed only a year after F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the book, is missing. Add that to the 1949 edition, the 1974 adaptation I consider the best, and this latest techno-charged remake directed by Baz Luhrmann, and we'd be dangerously armed for all sorts of didactic, comparative studies in filmmaking. Instead, maybe like what Daisy Buchanan wished for her daughter, we should be pretty little fools, unfazed by all that rigor and fuss, and simply enjoy this latest offering for what it is: a big, 0 Comments
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