Mayor Richard Alcombright says North Adams used to be a little mill town that people had to drive through to get to Stockbridge, Williamstown, or popular spots in Southern Vermont. “But over the last decade,

After living together for three years, the Berkshire Visitors Bureau and the Berkshire Chamber of Commerce announced their engagement on Wednesday. The two organizations will become one as of July 1 as part of the

The final step of a plan that has been in the works for six years officially became legal Wednesday when three Berkshire organizations were merged into one. Members of the Berkshire Visitors Bureau and the

Members of the Berkshire Chamber of Commerce and the Berkshire Visitors Bureau are meeting to vote on the merger of the two organizations into the region’s lead economic development agency. The groups are taking the

For some, the now-annual Berkchique! charity clothing sale is the biggest shopping opportunity of the year, and this year’s, held at the former Crane Stationery factory, was no different. With perhaps one exception: the rack

Adam Hinds worked in the Mideast for the United Nations – but now he’s come home to Pittsfield. Jess Lamb lived in Boston and Brooklyn – but chose Pittsfield as the place to start

Someone asked me a question the other day that took me a little while to answer. They wanted to know where the Pittsfield Visitors Center was located. I immediately assumed that they were referring to

Two Berkshire County art museums recently received grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support their work, including examining and utilizing technology in the art world. The Williams College Museum of Art has used roughly

The idea behind the 1Berkshire Strategic Alliance has always been to provide a single point of entry for those seeking to do business in this area. 1Berkshire and its supporting organizations have been moving toward

It was a different world when Doris and Aldo Sartori began raising three boys with developmental disabilities. Their second child, Dennis, was born with special needs in 1953. Twin boys, both with developmental impairments, came