2+ hour, 2+ min ago  (747+ words) Excerpted from "Black Freedom" by Blair LM Kelley (Black Dog & Leventhal). Copyright "2026 As the nation prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, two newly released visual histories of America tell significantly different stories of the struggle for freedom and unity. The American…...

3+ hour, 2+ min ago  (288+ words) Adams town meeting members stand to be counted during the 2025 annual town meeting after a close vote. This year's meeting will begin at 6 p. m. Monday. Town meeting: 6 p. m. Monday, Adams Memorial Building, 30 Columbia St. Voters also will consider citizen petitions to add…...

6+ hour, 2+ min ago  (1610+ words) On Oct. 3, 1946, a 20-passenger DC-3 from Central New England Airways successfully landed and took off from the Pittsfield Municipal Airport in a test flight. Second of two parts. The first part of this story provided a brief history of aviation in…...

3+ hour, 32+ min ago  (286+ words) Monument Mountain senior Amelia Desilets competes at the MIAA D-VI State Championships. Monument Mountain senior Amelia Desilets settles herself before the 800-meter race at Berkshire County Individuals last month. Monument Mountain senior Amelia Desilets has committed to run Division I…...

7+ hour, 58+ min ago  (95+ words) The Berkshire Eagle Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh this week reiterated the central bank's long-held target of keeping inflation below 2 percent. The markets took that to mean interest rate hikes were coming. Oil's decline boosts stocks as the new Fed…...

5+ hour, 2+ min ago  (1116+ words) LENOX " The applause for 24-year-old Bar Kupershtein began before he reached the front of the room. By the time the former Hamas hostage took the microphone to speak at Chabad of the Berkshires, the crowd had been on its feet…...

9+ hour, 2+ min ago  (378+ words) ADAMS " Police are now investigating a hoax 911 "swatting" call after being summoned to a Summer Street home early Friday morning on false pretenses." Adams Police Sgt. Matthew Wright told The Eagle that police arrived at home in the residential section…...

8+ hour, 2+ min ago  (240+ words) Alec Baldwin will return to Tanglewood on July 5 to narrate Aaron Copland's "Lincoln Portrait" with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. What: Philip Glass Symphony No. 15, "Lincoln" with John Williams Suite from "Lincoln" and Copland "Lincoln Portrait" When: 2: 30 p. m. July 5 Jazz guitarist St'phane…...

10+ hour, 47+ min ago  (108+ words) Juneteenth, also known as Black Independence Day, is a federal holiday observed on Friday, June 19, to commemorate the emancipation of the last enslaved African-Americans. A list of what is open or closed, operating or shut, follows: Retail stores: Most open…...

9+ hour, 32+ min ago  (39+ words) One person arrested after truck strikes fence at Pittsfield Big Y The Berkshire Eagle One person was arrested after a pickup truck struck a fence at Pittsfield's Big Y on Thursday. Mitchell Chapman is The Eagle's night news editor....