The Baker-Polito Administration today announced $300,000 in grants to the Commonwealth’s regional Buy Local agricultural organizations for projects that will enhance efforts in western, central, northeastern and southeastern Massachusetts. Regional agricultural Buy Local organizations
The increase in Berkshire visitor spending in 2015 attests to the strong Berkshire brand and the high quality of the attractions visitors find here. Ideally this will be reflected a year from now when
It ran for three months, drew 170,000 visitors, and generated $14.8 million in visitor spending. "Van Gogh and Nature," last year's Vincent Van Gogh exhibit at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, produced the highest
The state has awarded $2.6 million to make the final mile connecting the town to North Adams by rail a reality. The MassWorks funding for the Berkshire Scenic Railway was part of the more
Employment, housing, transportation and broadband are just some of the issues facing Berkshire County in retaining and attracting members of the Millennial Generation. The current generation of young adults, known as millennials and who range
Annabelle Selldorf, who will lecture at the Clark Art Institute on Saturday, is an accomplished architect, businesswoman and, perhaps unbeknownst to her, heart surgeon. "The reopening of the Manton Center is maybe not more
When Springfield federal Judge Michael Ponsor semi-retired after three decades on the bench, he started to enjoy two privileges of part time work: He could choose the type of cases he wanted, and he
It’s a $32 billion industry in Massachusetts, bringing in $812 million in taxes, but tourism requires cooperation, collaboration and communication between the state’s 16 regional tourism councils as well as among the industry sectors
When a grant was secured last summer to move forward with a new teen center, the grant application read "Northern Berkshire Youth Center." That, in the minds of some of the young people helping to
Exuding hope and excitement, organizers and young people on Saturday afternoon celebrated the opening of the Roots Teen Center at 43 Eagle Street. The aim of the center, according to Jessica Sweeney, the newly hired