Created in 1998 to provide educational opportunities for Southern Berkshire Regional School District students, the Eagle Fund received more than 20 applications and awarded grants to students, teachers and community members.
He was promoted at Southern Berkshire Regional School District to the position of director of the performing arts department and community relations liaison, a post he held for 17 years.
The chapbook is a brilliant work of art in its way of revealing how seemingly fleeting events in our lives can have enormous impact on memory, leaving lasting impressions in spite of or because of the careless actions of others.
‘We believe that if a newspaper is alert and lively in its news columns, if it covers the happenings of the community fairly and completely, if it is open and forthright in its editorial opinion, it will have the respect of its readers and will be an effective advertising medium for those who use to use its columns.”
-- Lawrence K. “Pete” Miller, whose family founded the Berkshire Eagle
Created in the memory of Daniel Pearl, Music in Common performs here in the Berkshires, across the country, and in Israel, where they work with Arab and Jewish students.
The annual Martin Luther King service will reflect the joint themes of social action and awareness, and will include inspirational readings as well as music by the Temple Anshe Amunim and First Baptist Church choirs.
Alice began her career in the advertising departments of the Berkshire Courier and the Berkshire Eagle, and later collaborated with John and Eunice Raifstanger at the genesis of the Shopper’s Guide.
A large crowd attended the first Mayoral Forum featuring the original four mayoral candidates. If K-111 is filled to capacity, overflow seating and a TV monitor will be available in the lobby of the Koussevitzky Arts Center
“What’s happening at The Eagle is partly an indicator of what’s happening to local journalism nationally and partly the result of the ownership structure it’s caught in right now. Digital First is in the financial engineering business, not the journalism and civic engagement business."
-- Bill Densmore, lecturer at the Reynolds Institute of Journalism at the University of Missouri and co-founder of the Williamstown Advocate
The young screenwriter let it be known to his Berkshire hosts that he was interested in settling in the Berkshires, and he looked at a number of large estates with a real estate broker. The one that struck his fancy was Wheatleigh, the upscale hostelry. His name was Thilo Rethmann. In fact, however, he was wanted in Germany on 57 counts of fraud, and had fled California after swindling his landlady out of $40,000.
"Now more than ever we are compelled and driven to work even harder towards dismantling the hatred and acts of terror that took my friend’s life."
-- Todd Mack
