By Alex Brooks A report on the health care needs of the northern Berkshire community commissioned by the Massachusetts Department of Health was completed on September 17 and is now available on the DPH web site. It was written by a firm based in Maine called Stroudwater Associates. The much-awaited report has been touted by […]
Heroin Comes To The Northern Berkshires
By Tela Zasloff Law Enforcement On The Streets Use and distribution of heroin in the northern Berkshires has grown at an unprecedented rate in recent years. Stories of how the drug is devastating individual families and fomenting increased crime and violence are becoming common, and the rate at which people are dying from heroin overdose […]
Significant Funding For Hoosic River Revival Project Is Included In Environmental Bond Bill
by Alex Brooks A transformation of the relationship between North Adams and the Hoosic River may be in the offing, as Hoosic River Revival and the City of North Adams, co-applicants, have been included in the funding authorizations in the Massachusetts Environmental Bond bill for $8,775,000 for design and construction of Phase 1 of their […]
MassMoCA Adds Another Building To Its Campus
Seeks Better Connection With Downtown Area By Alex Brooks The Massachuetts Museum of Contemporary Art, better known as MassMoCA, bought another building on June 1 – the 22,000 square foot building at 25 Marshall Street, which occupies the western side of Marshall Street from Main Street to the Route 2 highway overpass next to MassMoCA. […]
Work By Egyptian Artist Alaa Awad at Gallery 51 Until July 27
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts’ (MCLA) Gallery 51 currently has on display an exhibition of work by Egyptian artist Alaa Awad entitled “Thebes.” Through the use of pharaonic motifs and calligraphy, Awad’s murals and paintings link Egypt’s revolutionary present to its ancient past. As part of “Thebes,” Awad has created an original mural along the […]
Priscilla Northup’s Reminiscences
Growing Up in North Adams I was born in North Adams in 1924, one of eight children in the Windover family. We all attended Freeman School, one of eight grammar schools in the City. I was taught more grammar in Mrs. Elsie Strong’s seventh-grade English class than I learned the rest of my life. My […]
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