 (Ben Garver / Berkshire Eagle Staff / photos.berkshireeagle.com) Don’t flush that: Blocked sewers prove costly for cities and towns Don’t flush that Swiffer. Nonflushable items such as the popular disposable dust- or wet-mop pads are lodging in sewer systems throughout the Berkshires -- costing municipalities thousands of dollars and considerable man-hours, The Eagle has learned. Full Story  |
POLICE LOG Pittsfield Police log for Wednesday, July 2 Wednesday, July 2 12:35 a.m.: Police investigate shots fired on Wellington Avenue. Full Story |
LOCAL NEWS  (Stephanie Zollshan / Berkshire Eagle Staff / photos.berkshireeagle.com) Norman Rockwell’s models shed light onto who the artist was STOCKBRIDGE -- Norman Rockwell is as American as apple pie. Or, maybe it would be more appropriate to say apple pie is as American as Norman Rockwell. Full Story |
SPORTS  (Stephanie Zollshan) Kent Lemme, Emily Mareb earn Independence Day 5-k victories PITTSFIELD -- As Kent Lemme made the turn onto Wahconah Street near the end of the Pittsfield Independence Day 5-kilometer race, he was hanging right behind Weyessa "Ace" McAlister. Full Story |
LOCAL SPORTS 3 Williams golfers earn all-academic honors The honors for Georgiana Salant didn’t end when she was named a first-team NCAA Division III All-American and then proved she was deserving by capturing the Division III individual title at the NCAA tournament in May. Full Story |
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COUNTY NOTES Pittsfield: Cartoonist to present children’s program Paul Merklein will present "Drawing Super Heroes" at 1 p.m. Tuesday, July 8, in the Berkshire Athenaeum auditorium as part of the Summer Reading Program. Full Story | ||||||
Performer drapes, lights firecrackers on body COOPERSVILLE, Mich. (AP) — John Fletcher gets a bang out of firecrackers — especially those he wraps around himself. Full Story |
 (Andrew Cooper/AP) 'Transformers' tops 'Tammy' on weak July 4 weekend NEW YORK (AP) — The Fourth of July went off like a dud at the box office, as the Michael Bay sequel "Transformers: Age of Extinction" and the Melisa McCarthy comedy "Tammy" led the weakest summer holiday weekend in at least a decade. Full Story |
 (AP Photo/National Ethnic Coalition, Tina Fineberg, File) Louis Zamperini, the inspiration for Angelina Jolie's upcoming film, dies at age 97 Subject of 'Unbroken,’ former Olympian and World War II hero dies just months before his life is celebrated on the big screen. |
