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Western New England’s growing drug epidemic prompts a
frantic response from federal, state and local organizations.
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Brittany Maynard certainly made the
news. She became the spokesperson for assisted suicide. What did not receive the same
level of coverage though, was why a beautiful
young woman, in the prime of life, would
think that committing suicide was her only
option.
Brittany Maynard had a brain tumor —
GBM — glioblastoma multiforme. It is the
most lethal type of brain cancer. The real story
is that sadly, there have been no breakthroughs
in the treatment of GBM in the last 40 years!
Physicians cannot even advise what the risk
factors are, let alone treat it effectively. If
you’re one of the unfortunate souls to be
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Local police mull
using body cameras
Local law enforcement is open but skeptical
to the use of body cameras on police officers.
By Tom Casey
A glimpse into the
future for 2015
The View takes a look into the crystal ball
and offers predictions for the biggest news
stories in 2015.
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diagnosed with a brain tumor, it will likely be
a GBM. Other cancers have had tremendous
success in screening methods and treatments.
One can even have genetic testing performed.
So why are brain tumors not in the public eye?
Do you even know what color ribbon signifies a brain tumor? There is a significant lack
of funding for research. Patients die rather
quickly. Families are left devastated and in
shock from the speed with which a loved one
passes. On Sunday Oct. 26, I participated in
the Boston Brain Tumor Walk sponsored by
the National Brain Tumor Society. I walked
in loving memory of my dear husband Larry
who succumbed to GBM on Dec. 1, 2012.
Larry lived two years and 10 days from the
date of diagnosis. He did “better than most”
per his physicians and was considered a
“long-term” survivor! When we received his
diagnosis I asked him if he had a “bucket
list” — places he wanted to visit or things he
wanted to do. Larry smiled at me and replied,
“No.” And so he simply continued to live his
ordinary life in an extraordinary manner —
never complaining, always uplifting, trying to
make his family happy. Larry died a peaceful
death — truly with grace and dignity.
Brittany Maynard is gone. My heart goes
out to all those heroic patients struggling in
their battles with brain tumors, knowing that
the focus has been diverted from treatment to
suicide. We need to change that for those who
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By Brian Wright
Tom Salinetti, Lee
During all the debate about the renovation of Monument,there was constant
praise about the present efforts of the
staff,administrators,and students to create a
wonderful place to learn.
One way to do that is to give money to
the non-profit foundation,Berkshire Hills
Fund for Excellence,which for the past ten
years has been awarding grants to innovative programs in the district but always has
more requests than can be filled. As head of
the foundation, I will be glad to answer any
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of Berkshire County, including Kennedy
Park and the watershed in Lenox, as well
as residential properties. It would seem like
common sense that this is a bad idea and
probably will be altered. However, the preliminary route of the pipeline is insignificant
in comparison to the principle.
I disagree with the notion that corporations can run pipelines through natural habitats.
This is a moral issue for Berkshire County
residents, and a chance to rewrite the narrative
of a county with a lackluster environmental
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Shocked, disappointed, outraged are
a few words that describe how I felt when
I heard the part-time director of the senior
center in Sheffield had been asked to clean
out his desk and hand over his keys.
John Arthur Miller did an outstanding job
over the last 8 years. The part time position
should have been a nineteen-hour-a-week job,
but John Arthur went well over that in serving
the seniors of Sheffield. As a former member
of the COA I was embarrassed by the way he
was treated. At the very least, the town should
have given the many seniors John Arthur
served the opportunity to say thank you and
farewell. Instead, he was dismissed without
any recognition of a job very well done.
I hope that the job description put out by
the town includes compassion and understanding -- two traits I think of when I think
of John Arthur.
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are bravely coping with their illness. Hope
is a very powerful word for one diagnosed
with a brain tumor! Consider Lauren Hill, 19,
the young college student who may possibly
die within the year. She is living her life to
the fullest knowing what her diagnosis is
and what lies ahead. The difference in the
two young women is quite startling. Life has
value. Support research! Support the National
Brain Tumor Society. Help bring about brain
tumor awareness so that effective, curative,
treatments may be found.
Marilyn Konefal
Pittsfield
résumé. Why should we have to sacrifice
something as fundamental as access to clean
drinking water? It should not be the responsibility of local communities to house a pipeline
that will not benefit them.
These corporations are bullies, who rely
on money to persuade politicians and invade
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`Just
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Local police
mull idea of
body cameras
By Tom Casey
I
n the wake of several controversial
deaths surrounding police encounters
a new call has come to reform methods of enforcement. The shooting
death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo
ignited protests against the officer and
purported racial injustice at the hands of
police as well as protests in defense of
the officer and his actions.
While the main debate surrounded
race relations in the country, the confusion over what had actually transpired
lead to another
discussion on how to
►► Local and better review police
state police and perpetrator
encounters.
consider
The discussion
using body
cameras
reached the highest
office as President
Barack Obama, in a
meeting with law enforcement officials
in December on how to ease mistrust of
police, requested $236 million for body
cameras and training.
The request sparked a discussion of
whether or not the police body cameras
should be implemented. In June the International Police Chiefs Association came
out in support of utilizing the technology.
“The IACP recognizes that technology plays a critical and increasingly important role in the daily work
of law enforcement officers in the field,
equipping them with enforcement and
investigative tools that have the potential to make them safer, better informed,
and more effective and efficient.” Said
IACP’s President, Chief Yousry Zakhary.
“To promote public confidence in, and
maximize the benefits of this technology, the IACP believes it is imperative
that law enforcement agencies create and
enforce comprehensive policies governing the deployment and use of BWCs
and other technologies and the data they
provide. In order to assist agencies in this
effort, the IACP is making the compendium of technology policy resources
immediately available to all 23,000 IACP
members at no cost.”
Another enticing aspect of the use
of body cameras is the lessening of “use
of force incidents.” A report conducted
by the Police Foundation found “more
than a 50% reduction in the total number
of incidents of use-of-force compared
to control-conditions, and nearly ten
times more citizens’ complaints in the
12-months prior to the experiment.”
On the local level, Berkshire officers
and chiefs are also paying close attention
to the discussion. The Massachusetts Po-
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lice Chiefs Association has come out in
support of a pilot program, with Executive Director A Wayne Sampson telling
the Boston Globe using the technology
could be used for “valuable information
for the police departments.”
A study conducted by Cambridge
University’s Institute of Criminology also
found a significant reduction in “use-offorce” incidents, lowering by 59 percent
and an 87 percent drop in complaints
from the public during a year-long trial
period with a California Police department.
While the idea has been overall
received positively, the practical implementation seems farther out. Lee Police
Chief Jeffrey Roosa said while he wasn’t
opposed to the cameras, he has concerns
surrounding how they would be put in to
place and what cost departments would
face.
“My only issue with it is the cost,” he
said. “If it’s not a mandated thing I don’t
see a problem with having the choice,
if the money is put out there for grants.
There is nothing to hide in American law
enforcement.”
Proponents of the cameras say the
cameras would protect officers from
being attacked. Roosa disagreed saying
a camera would not stop an incident like
the recent murder of two police officers
in Brooklyn from happening.
“The people that would assault
and officer won’t be deterred,” he said.
“Ninety-nine percent of people respect
authority it’s that one percent that would
do something like that and you won’t
change that with a camera.”
Roosa also said that if they were to
be instituted into the state, there would
have to be some changes to the law as
well to allow their use.
“We would have to walk up and say
you are being recorded He said. “They
would have to change some aspects of
the law so they would be useful.”
Roosa is not alone in his critique,
while there has been a push to implement
the technology, many have expressed
concerns over the cameras implementation without properly studying the
ramifications of using the technology.
The same study by Cambridge University
cautioned that while the program has
its benefits, there should not be an over
sweeping change to police policy.
Roosa also has his skepticism over
completely relying on the cameras as
evidence.
I think there is a perspective issue,”
he said. “You don’t hear the whole story
... the context of the video needs to be
considered too.”
However, Roosa said, he was positive
about the idea of using body cameras.
“But overall I think it’s going to
protect officers more than it will harm
them.”
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cameras for officers, part of a national trend discussing the issue.
`The
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Future
Our predictions
for new year
Pipeline continues to move
We mean move in two ways. One the
project will continue to move forward
whether the people of Western Mass want
to hear it our not. Once a big company
like Kinder Morgan gets behind the kind
of project it is tough to stop. It is not all
bad news though. If the project is going
right by your house you may get lucky,
we bet the route moves two or three more
times in 2015 before a final pathway is
picked.
Battle on
It has been a year on conflict in
Pittsfield between the city council and the
mayor. In the 2015 the sequel to that shotem-up style brawl will be even wilder.
Get your dollar on
Fighting over the building of a new
Dollar General seems to be the new
Berkshire pass time. Now they are all up
in arms over the cheap goods in Cheshire,
but by the end of the year we say the
ground will be broken on that retailer too.
We can’t go on like this
Enrollment in our local schools has
been an a free fall for years. In 2015 the
districts will begin to really think about
how to consolidate, and maybe just
maybe a school will close.
The bright lights
Coming off a good year we say
Tanglewood will have an even better one
in 2015. The more brave prediction, the
rumor mill is saying at least one more
major act, that is popular with younger
folks, will be added to the summer slate.
Red light district?
With the talk of casinos not too far
away and the uptick in local crime, in
2015 our crystal ball sees a fight in Pittsfield over a proposed ‘adult’ establishment.
Build, build, build
After years of a down economy,
several big projects are in the work for the
Berkshires. In 2015 we bet that continues and we see the most building in the
county in a decade.
Closing up shop
It won’t be all positive news. The local arts rumor will also says that one local
cultural establishment will be shuttered
by the years end.
No new taxes
In South County an anti-tax movement filled the headlines. With people still
hurting look for that trend to continue in
the new year whenever major projects or
increases are proposed.
We are the champions
For all you local sports fans we see
a good year ahead. At least one Berkshrie County high school will bring home
a state title, but there could be multiple
winners.
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`Metro
`
Could the new
Vermonter Line
brighten rail plans?
G
etting Connecticut onboard
with possible Berkshire train
service may be a long way
off, but several state lawmakers are pointing to a new line in western
Massachusetts as a possible road map.
On a recent Monday, Governor Deval Patrick joined
Congressmen
►► A new
Richard Neal and
Western
James McGovern,
Mass line
MassDOT Acting
has train
supporters
Secretary & CEO
still hoping Frank DePaola,
many more local
elected officials and community members for the inaugural run of Amtrak’s
Vermonter service on the Knowledge
Corridor.
Monday’s inaugural run left Springfield at Union Station and made stops
along the new service route in Holyoke,
Northampton and Greenfield.
The Knowledge Corridor project returns Vermonter train service to
the historic passenger route between
Springfield and East Northfield, providing a more direct route, eventual faster
service and restored access to the cities
of Greenfield and Northampton.
It also makes in far easier to get to
New York and Boston from much of
western Massachusetts.
The Vermonter operates daily between Washington and St. Albans, Vermont, with service to Philadelphia, New
York, Hartford, Connecticut, Springfield,
Massachusetts and Essex Junction,
Vermont, along with other intermediate
stops.
Service from Greenfield to NYC will
take about four-and-a-half hours on the
new line, but as much as 25 minutes is
expected to be cut by more upgrades by
2016.
“Today’s inaugural ride is another
important milestone in the effort to
upgrade and restore rail transportation
along the historic Knowledge Corridor,”
said Congressman Neal. “Passengers
will now enjoy increased service and
shorter travel time from Springfield to
Vermont.”
The restoration work along approximately 49 track miles includes the
replacement of some 95,000 ties; installation of new continuously welded rail;
new active warning signals and crossing
gates at 23 public grade crossings and
four private crossings; upgrades to six
bridges; and the first phase of a new
signal installation.
The $131-million project is funded
by approximately $80 million in federal
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Shea Garner
Full time NYC-to- Pittsfield service may still be far off even after new line.
grant funds, including a Federal Railroad
Administration grant through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act,
along with state funds.
Amtrak passenger service along the
new Knowledge Corridor was officially
to begin on Monday, December 29.
Before the celebration of this rail
project was even complete, officials
were quickly turning their eye to the
future, the New York City to Berkshire
County line.
“I helped secure part of the federal
assistance that helped make this project
a reality, and will continue my efforts
to bring east-west rail travel to Western
Massachusetts,” Neal said.
State Representative Paul Mark said
that this project, if riders continue to
support it, will help open the door to the
Berkshire Line.
“If this is a great success and it
brings in economic development, tourism and educational opportunities, then
it’s so much of an easier argument for
us to make that now we need it to run to
North Adams, to Pittsfield, and of course
from Pittsfield to New York City,” Mark
said.
While praising this project State
Rep. Stephen Kulik was also quick to
look to the future in Berkshire County.
“This investment in improved rail
infrastructure is hopefully just the beginning of a brighter future for train service
in Franklin and Hampshire counties and
all of western Massachusetts,” Kulik
said.
Last year, the state of Massachusetts
announced the purchase of the Berkshire
Line, running from Pittsfield south to the
Connecticut border, from the freighthauling Housatonic Railroad.
The hope is, apparently, to restore
through passenger service from New
York City to Pittsfield, which hasn’t
existed on the line since the 1971, but
was once considered a staple of the
Berkshires resort economy.
But even after this latest development with the Vermonter line many are
asking if that is even a good idea.
In the official statement, on the deal,
MassDOT Secretary and CEO Richard
Davey claimed that “Studies have shown
that a Berkshire County rail connection
to New York City would be a winner,
with more than one million rides annually.”
For some perspective, that’s over
2,700 rides a day, or 1,300+ in each
direction.
The NYC-Berkshires travel market was once fairly large, and remains
somewhat so, but there’s certainly no
guarantee of any kind of mass return to
transit in the corridor.
In any case, the MassDOT purchase
covers the line only from the Connecticut border to Pittsfield, leaving Massachusetts dependent on Connecticut’s
willingness to invest in its segment of
the line.
Indeed, even if rail transit returns
to the Berkshires, the Housatonic line
seems an unlikely candidate for that restoration; it is so poorly suited to through
passenger traffic, in fact, that even the
dedicated foamers over at railroad.net
are very skeptical of the success of any
restored passenger service.
The entire line is so curvy that railfans estimate (see above link) that even
with massive infrastructure investment
trip times from NYC to Pittsfield would
never get better than 4 hours–and even
that seems optimistic.
And the required investment would
be massive–the line is single-track,
completely unsignalled, and has been
allowed to deteriorate to the very bare
minimum necessary for freight service
(and fartoo often less) over the years.
Indeed, as early as the 1930s, New
York-bound travelers abandoned what
was then the New Haven Railroad’s
Berkshires Division in favor of driving
to New York Central’s parallel Harlem
Line.
Today, that legacy continues as
many Berkshires travelers take MetroNorth to Wassaic (the current terminus
of the now-truncated Harlem Line) and
drive the remainder of the trip to their
weekend or summer homes. Meanwhile,
the middle portion, from New Milford to
Canaan, CT, is so devoid of population
that it was in fact entirely abandoned
from 1972 until the Housatonic restored
service in 1983.
In short, the idea that thousands of
passengers a day will ride a slow train to
the Berkshires via Danbury seems a little
far-fetched to say the least; the train trip
from Grand Central to Wassaic is about
2:15-2:30, and it’s another 45 minutes by
car to Sheffield, 50 to Great Barrington,
an hour to Stockbridge or Lee, 1:10 to
Lenox, or 1:20 to Pittsfield, yielding trip
times in the 3:15 range for the southern
Berkshires and around 4 hours for Pittsfield.
Driving all the way is faster, of
course, depending on traffic around
NYC itself. Restored Berkshire Division service seems unlikely to be able to
match these times.
So even with this step showing that
it isn’t impossible, it also still seems far
from likely.
`Turbulence
`
State orders
documents in
Wade case to
be released
By Brian Wright
E
ven though the fight between
a local business woman and
the mayor’s office that has
resulted in allegations of racism
is far from over, the state has ordered
that documents involved in the case be
released to the public.
The case centers on Doreen Wade
the publisher and CEO of the New England Informer, a
monthly online
►► Case claims
news magazine.
racism in
Wade claimed
fight between would also like
business
to restart the
owner,
print version
pittsfield
of The Informer (which was
discontinued when the publication made
the jump to being online only in 2002)
in Pittsfield because she doesn’t see any
publications directed at the minority
community in The Berkshires.
With this in mind, Wade went to the
City of Pittsfield to see if there were
any grants specifically for black-owned
businesses to relocate to the city and
discovered there were none.
“I wanted to see if there was anything available for a black woman who
would relocate and bring her business
there,” Wade said.
After meeting with Ann Dobrowolski of the Pittsfield Office of Community
Development, Ms. Wade had a meeting with Mayor Bianchi on April 3 of
2013 at 11 a.m. to discuss the relocation
was because there was a lack of qualified candidates.
Finally, Wade claimed Bianchi said
he would not support an application
from her business to get funding from
the city’s PERC program.
“He said because, as far as he’s concerned, a black business would not survive here,” said Wade, referring to The
Informer’s goal of branching out into a
print publication aimed at the county’s
minority community.
Wade said she left what was sup-
“It’s not like we discourage people from applying.
It’s not as if we don’t encourage people to be
part of our municipal community.”
-Pittsfield Mayor Daniel Bianchi
of The Informer, as well as why there
were no programs available specifically
for black-owned businesses.
What happened at that meeting is
currently disputed.
Ms. Wade claimed when she asked
Mayor Daniel Bianchi if Pittsfield had
an affirmative action policy, he said it
did not because Pittsfield is only seven
percent African American.
She also alleged he said that black
children aren’t graduating high school in
Pittsfield because there are no black role
models in the city.
Furthermore, she said when she
asked why Pittsfield City Hall didn’t
have any black employees, he said it
posed to be an hour-long meeting after
25 minutes and was very upset.
“The operative word here is allegedly,” said Bianchi at the time. “I don’t
know how she could have misconstrued
anything I said.”
Mayor Bianchi said after the April 3
meeting had finished, he thought it had
gone well.
“It’s not like we discourage people
from applying,” said Mayor Bianchi,
when asked about the subject of black
employment at city hall, also noting the
city’s police chief is black. “It’s not as if
we don’t encourage people to be part of
our municipal community.”
Mayor Bianchi also denies saying
that he would not support Ms. Wade’s
application for PERC funding.
“What I said was, if she was doing
a print-based medium in Pittsfield, the
demographics might not support it,” said
the mayor, who noted the prospects for
an online publication were not bound by
these demographic concerns.
After hearing the claims of Wade
the city’s Human Rights Commission
opened an investigation into the matter.
After that investigation began, news
website iBerkshires’ reporter Joe
Durwin requested “all records provided
to the Human Rights Commission” in
the case months ago, and after several
hearings and filings the state sided with
Durwin and forced the city to open the
books.
“The City and the HRC are hereby
ordered to provide the responsive records to Mr. Durwin in a manner consistent with this order, the Public Records
Law and its Access Regulations,” said
Supervisor of Records Shawn Williams
in his ruling.
The city released over 200 pages of
emails and other documents that pertain
to the Wade case. One key item to come
of the release is notes taken by Mary
McGinnis, of the mayor’s staff at that
time, of a second meeting between Wade
and Bianchi.
In those notes she describes a contentious meeting in which Wade felt that
the mayor set a “racist” tone.
In one part of the meeting, according to McGinnis’s notes that were first
reported by iBerkshires, “I think you
heard what you wanted to hear,” Bianchi
said, “You said the city does not support
black businesses.”
“Ok, I’m a liar,” Wade replied.
Wade also twice told the mayor to stop
pointing at her, according to those
minutes.
The HRC has tabled their investigation into the incident until further
state inquires on the same matter can be
involved.
But no matter the outcome the longawaited release from the Wade case file
shows the depth of the anger between
the two sides, and the case seems as far
as ever from being resolved.
The story
matters.
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I
n early December, more then 160 Pittsfield residents lost power. The cause wasn’t one of Berkshire County’s infamous snowstorms or a problem
at Western Massachusetts Electric Company, but
rather a midmorning car accident in front of a busy gas
station on South Street.
Peter Matthews, 32, was heading south in his
Suburu around 9 a.m. when he veered into the opposing lane and struck a telephone pole that snapped and
nearly killed Gerald Nkrumah-Bediako, who was driving his minivan northbound near Lipton Mart.
The high-voltage transformer reportedly came
within inches of Nkrumah-Bediako, prompting a trip
to Berkshire Medical Center where he was treated for
minor injuries. Matthews escaped relatively unscathed,
though southbound traffic was rerouted down Crofut
Street and Pomeroy Avenue and northbound vehicles
took detours on Barker and South Mountain roads for
the better part of the afternoon while cleanup efforts
were underway.
Perhaps the most distressing aspect of the incident
was not the property damage or loss of power, but the
fact that Matthews was allegedly high on heroin at the
time of the accident, having admittedly shot up only
hours before driving. To make matters worse, police
reported discovering two bags of heroin, 15 empty
heroin packets, and numerous needles on his person
when they arrived on scene.
The Mass Pike is one of
the major arteries for
transporting opiates
The following day, Matthews was arraigned in Central
Berkshire District Court, where he had not- guilty
pleas entered on his behalf on misdemeanor charges of
drugged driving, possession of heroin, and a marked
lanes violation, according to the Berkshire Eagle.
Judge Fredric D. Rutberg ended up releasing Matthews
on personal recognizance and, despite a request from
the Berkshire District Attorney’s Office, did not require the defendant to refrain from using illegal drugs
moving forward.
The decision prompted a response from local
resident Kate Basile of Richmond in a Letter to the
Editor titled “Appalled by accident and its aftermath,”
published in the Eagle just days later.
“South Street is the second-largest business district
in the City of Pittsfield and most of those that lost
power were businesses. How many thousands of dollars in lost productivity does that add up to? The entire
business day was lost,” she wrote. “What is the name
of the alternate universe that these people reside in? I
want to go there where one's actions have no consequences and everything will work out sometime in the
future, because after all, as the defendant's lawyer said
in court, ‘he's a good family man!’”
While it’s no secret that Berkshire County has a
serious heroin problem, events like these undoubtedly
raise eyebrows. Everyone knows that opioid use generally affects rural communities, but when an incident
like this impacts the commutes of thousands, people
really start to pay attention.
In the last year, police departments across the
county have experienced an influx of heroin-related
arrests and cases, adding to an already growing trend
experienced since the late ‘90s.
In February, the North Adams Police Department
reported the seizure of more than $3,000 worth of
heroin during two motor vehicle stops on the Mohawk
Trail. According to the department, officer’s assigned
to the Berkshire County Drug Task Force received information concerning a local group that was traveling
to Holyoke to “resupply” themselves with the substance. The information led to the arrest of five North
Adams residents between the ages of 19 and 26, where,
at the respective scenes, officers discovered more than
300 bags of heroin and six bags of cocaine.
No more than a day later, 20 miles south of North
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The Berkshire County Drug Task Force seized 167 bags of heroin, 100 opioid pills and
almost $500 in cash after a motor vehicle search in Pittsfield in February. The suspect
allegedly purchased the drugs in Holyoke hours earlier.
Adams in Pittsfield, the BCDTF arrested
five people in connection with an alleged drug drop on Appleton Avenue,
according to the Eagle. Once again,
officers were acting on a search warrant
after receiving information that Charles
Katz, 49, was supplying the residence
with heroin from Holyoke.
Police found 65 bags of heroin on
his person at the time of arrest and 90
additional bags inside the home following a search. At the time of his arrest,
the Berkshire District Attorney’s Office
reported that Katz had an ongoing court
case open in Holyoke for allegedly possessing 171 bags of heroin.
A few weeks after that, the BCDTF
and Pittsfield police arrested Christopher Harrington, 35, following a
no-knock raid at his Glenwood Avenue
home. There they found 40 bags of heroin and more than $1,000 of loose cash
that Harrington later claimed was used
to purchase between 100 and 200 bags
in Holyoke “almost daily,” according to
published reports. Harrington was sentenced to 32 months in jail in November
12
after pleading guilty to possession of
heroin with intent to distribute and conspiracy to violate drug laws.
In less than a month, the BCDTF
executed three major drug busts in
Central and Northern Berkshire County.
And that doesn’t include the more minor
drug-related arrests that occur countywide on a seemingly weekly basis. But
what’s interesting here is their connection to Holyoke.
Located about an hour east of
Berkshire County and easily accessible
via the I-90 turnpike, Holyoke is similar
in population size to Pittsfield, but sits
only eight miles north of Springfield,
the largest city in western New England
and third-largest city in Massachusetts.
In fact, just over a year ago, the
now-defunct North Adams Transcript
reported that two Springfield residents,
Luis Agosto, 34, and Ashley Pelletier,
24, were busted at the Howard Johnson
Motel in Williamstown with 38 bags of
heroin and more than $5,000 in cash.
Agosto was charged with conspiracy
to violate drug laws, while Pelletier was
charged with class A drug possession,
subsequent offense, and conspiracy to
violate drug laws, respectively. Authorities noted that the seizure was “consistent with street-level distribution,”
according to the Transcript.
Of course, these are somewhat
isolated incidents, but there is no doubt
that a decent amount of drugs are coming in from the more populated areas
of New England, whether it be the
Springfield metropolitan area or the
Albany-Schenectady-Troy Metropolitan
Statistical Area.
In 2013, the Boston Globe ran a
story titled “Heroin abuse problems
plague rural Mass. towns” that detailed
the harrowing addiction of Lance Rice,
a resident of Turners Falls, a small,
former mill town in Franklin County,
bordering the Berkshires.
Rice was arrested following a
string of break-ins perpetrated to fund
his heroin addiction. As a teen, he got
himself hooked on the prescription
painkiller Percocet and transitioned to
heroin because it was cheaper and more
readily available. Soon, his addiction
spiraled out of control.
“Rice and his friends would drive
45 minutes to Holyoke and Springfield,
where heroin is cheap — $5 to $10 a
bag — and easy to find. They would
bring the drug north via what many in
law enforcement refer to as the I-91
‘drug corridor.’ Back in their small
town, they could resell heroin for more
money and fund their own habits,” the
Globe story reads.
Transporting heroin from these more
centralized hubs proves lucrative for
dealers. The North Adams Police Department reports that 150 bags of Holyoke street-level heroin totaling $600 can
sell for $1,500 in northern Berkshire
County. The figures more than justify
the hour trip to Springfield, Holyoke,
or Albany as it more than doubles the
dealer’s inevitable profit.
Recently, U.S. Sen. Charles E.
“Chuck” Schumer(D. N.Y.) requested
$100 million in federal anti-drug funding to combat trafficking on the “heroin
highway” — a nickname for the portion
of Route 7 that connects New York
City, Albany, and the rest of the Capital
Region to Vermont — after the Albany
County Sheriff’s Department reported
seizing more than 1,500 grams of heroin
in 2014.
Schumer called for the emergency
funds to be distributed to High Intensity
Drug Trafficking Areas to help assist
local drug task forces in combating the
“heroin surge,” according to the Times
Union.
“These people are killers,” said
Schumer of the dealers trafficking the
deadly substance. “We know they’re
trying to make money, but they’re killing people to make money. It’s not very
much different than going into a store,
shooting the store owner, and robbing
the cash register.”
Schumer also called out Vermont for
being “one of the country’s epicenters
for heroin abuse” — a valid proclamation as the state’s “war on heroin” has
been covered nationally by the likes of
the New York Times, Rolling Stone,
USA Today, Vice, and Business Week.
At the top of the year, in a heroin
raid in Bennington, just 20 minutes
north of Williamstown, the Bennington
Police Special Response Team arrested
four people on charges of heroin possession, heroin sale, sale of regulated
drugs, and conspiracy to violate drug
laws. Bennington Police Chief Paul
Doucette claimed the site was a “major
source of heroin being sold in Bennington,” according to the Eagle.
There’s a quite noticeable connection between the aforementioned
metropolitan hubs and the Berkshire
region: our county sits in the middle of
a triangle between Springfield, Albany,
and small cities is southern Vermont like
Bennington and Brattleboro.
I-90 links the Springfield area with
the Berkshires and Albany, while parts
of Route 7 link both of the latter to
Bennington. I-91 connects Springfield,
Holyoke, and Brattleboro, and a mess of
routes in between run like veins to the
heart of our problem here at home.
Lois Daunis, director of prevention
programs at the Northern Berkshire
Community Coalition, has been working
with the Berkshire Regional Planning
Commission’s Berkshire Opioid Abuse
and Prevention Collaborative in effort
to fight the epidemic that’s gripped the
county.
“What we’ve seen around here, and
I think people have seen this around the
nation, is that opioids are very expensive,” Daunis told The View. “Many end
up using heroin because it’s so much
cheaper. Local law enforcement has
seen a real spike in heroin use, arrests
for heroin possession, and crime related
to drug addiction.”
The Berkshire Opioid Abuse and
Prevention Collaborative formed in
November of 2012 after holding a series
of countywide forums that addressed reducing the recreational use of prescription drugs and heroin.
Over the next two years, an adhoc working group, consisting of 25
diverse stakeholders from around the
county, began to meet monthly to work
on developing and implementing local
policies, practices, systems, and environmental changes to prevent the misuse
or abuse of opioids, prevent or reduce
unintentional deaths and non-fatal
hospital events associated with opioid
poisonings, and increase the capacity of
municipalities to deal with the growing
problem, according to the BRPC.
“The good news is that Berkshire
Health Systems, which is now the only
health system in the county since the
closure of Northern Berkshire Health
Care, the District Attorney’s office, the
Brien Center, and all of us prevention
folk are meeting to deal with countywide strategies for this issue,” said
Daunis. “We’ve been doing community
education and we’ve been disseminating
“These people are killers. We know they’re
trying to make money, but they’re killing people
to make money. It’s not very much different than
going into a store, shooting the store owner, and
robbing the cash register.”
-U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D, N.Y.)
from the Keenan House into supportive
information around the county.”
housing, an assisted living environment
The Brien Center for Mental
where the patient is still supported but
Health and Substance Abuse Services
has more autonomy. They also offer
is the non-profit agency at the center
Safe Harbor, a housing and reunificaof the efforts to overcome the opioid
tion program for families impacted by
abuse problem in the Berkshires. Their
substance abuse.
“community-based” programs provide a
“We have day programs and eating
continuum of care for addicts and their
programs run by a remarkably dedifamilies as they strive to get better.
cated, seasoned staff,” Michaels said.
Doctor Jennifer Michaels, medical
“Patients can attend meetings and learn
director at the Brien Center, has helped
sober skills as we help them navigate retreat more than 10,000 people countycovery. We also have all different types
wide in the last year.
of individual and group therapy.”
“It’s not a new problem but it’s a
In her aforementioned Letter to the
problem that’s been escalating locally
Editor, Basile questioned why the judge
and it reflects a national trend,” she
didn’t require Matthews to refrain from
said, describing a spike in the 1990s
using illegal drugs in the time before his
when doctors began prescribing more
sentencing.
opioid pills to address pain issues.
There was a sense of genuine out “That led to them being used for
rage, from Basile and the general public,
recreational use,” Michaels added. “It
as to why
created a
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causing
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thousands of dollars worth of damage.
that ended up resulting in more restric One reason, in particular, has to do
tions on prescriptions, which Michaels
with the substance’s highly addictive
describes as “good,” despite the subsequalities and the extremely uncomfortquent “dire consequences.”
“Because there are fewer pills on the able symptoms associated with sudden
withdrawal.
street, people have reverted to heroin
“Addiction to opioids is truly a disuse to address their opioid addiction
ease. Just stopping doing it doesn’t work
because it’s very cheap and it’s very pothat way. It’s like being diabetic and
tent,” she said. “There are certain areas
saying, ‘just get normal blood sugar.’
where you can get heroin for $15 here
When people are engaged in substance
and in Holyoke it’s $10. Those are the
use they make terrible decisions that
sites closer to the source. You hear of
they would never make if they were sopeople coming back from there because
ber,” Michaels said. “The goal is to help
there’s a lot of heroin. They go there to
someone reclaim their sobriety so they
resupply.”
stop hurting themselves and their loved
The Brien Center, though based in
ones. If a crime is committed the person
Pittsfield, offers more than 27 locations
needs to deal with the consequences but
for treatment and service throughout
we also need to address the disease so
the county and is part of a network
they don’t continue to commit crimes
of hospitals, social service agencies,
related to the substance abuse.”
doctors, law enforcement officials, and
Rice, for example, started taking
donors that share a vision of improving
Percocet and ended up stealing and comthe health and well-being of Berkshire
mitting other various crimes to fund his
County residents suffering from serious
habit. According to Michaels, pills can
health and addiction disorders, accordcost as much as $30 or more each and
ing to their website.
abusers can become tolerant quickly,
Doctors work with BMC’s McGee
requiring more pills to achieve the same
Recovery Center, a 21-bed inpatient dehigh. A valid statement, as even Rice detoxification unit, to provide a smoother
scribed transitioning to heroin because
transition for those suffering from
of price and availability.
heroin addiction as they reintegrate into
“Addiction is a series of lines
society.
drawn in the sand that are sequentially
The Brien Center’s residential prooverstepped,” Michaels explained. “It
gram, the Keenan House, is a recovery
home where those transitioning from the may start out with, ‘I’m only going to
McGee Center can stay for upwards of
six months. Patients can then graduate
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use on the weekends,’ and then, after an
uncomfortable withdrawal, that line in
the sand is surpassed. If you’re using intranasally, then it’s, ‘Oh, I’ll use heroin
but I’ll never shoot up,’ and then you
need to in order to get the same high. If
you wake up, you can’t function unless
you get an opiate in your system.”
The Brien Center provides medications to recovering patients that mitigate
the craving for drugs like heroin. While
they don’t prescribe methadone, they
do provide suboxone, a drug containing
the opioid buprenorphine that acts as a
mixed agonist-antagonist opioid receptor modular to treat addiction.
Doctors at the Brien Center are
actively engaged with their patients’
Primary Care Doctors and probation officers and require urine tests to monitor
their progress. Michaels describes their
comprehensive treatment program as
“very effective.”
“It’s very upsetting because treatment really works,” said Michaels,
referencing a study commissioned by the
World Health Organization that found
substance abuse more stigmatizing that
leprosy and HIV. “People do not necessarily seek treatment because people are
ashamed. I always say, ‘hate the disease
and not the person who’s suffering from
the disease.’ There’s just a lack of role
models out there.”
Thankfully, according to both
Daunis and Michaels, Berkshire County
has become a model area in terms of
how quickly various organizations came
together to target the problem and how
effectively they work across the county
to tackle it.
“There’s this wonderful network of
care that exists in our community. We
are unique in that way. We have a lot
of support and a lot of communication
compared to other states where trying to
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Al-Anon Family Groups, a fellowship of friends and relatives of addicts
who facilitate a program of recovery
based on the Twelve Steps and Twelve
Traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous,
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across the county, while Learn to Cope,
a peer-led support network for families
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Tuesday, Jan. 6
with classic and contemporary covers and
originals. At Mazcots, 490 Pittsfield Road,
Lenox. 9 p.m. (413) 499-1101.
Karaoke, At Uncle Larry’s Tavern. 71 Chester
Road, Becket. 9 p.m. (413) 623-8711.
Open Mic, at Bounti-Fare Restaurant and
Catering. 200 Howland Avenue, Adams. 7
p.m. (413) 743-0193.
Sean Callaghan and John Culpo, Rainbow
Restaurant, 101 First Street, Pittsfield. 7:30
p.m. (413) 443-0002.
Music
Tom Carroll, performing at the Lion’s Den
at the Red Lion Inn. 30 Main Street, Stockbridge. 8 p.m. (413) 298-5545.
Mission Open Mic Nights, open to all
hosted by Jordan Franklin at Mission Bar
and Tapas. 438 North Street, Pittsfield. 8
p.m. missionbarandtapas.com.
Open Mic Night, at Bogies Steak and Ale.
935 South Main Street, Great Barrington.
9 p.m. (413) 528-5959.
Purple Pub Open Mic, live performances.
65 Spring Street, Williamstown. 8 p.m.
(413)458-0095.
Latin Night, hosted by DJ Alexavier and
DJ Chico. At the Iron Horse Music Hall,
20 Center Street, Northampton. 10 p.m.
(413) 586-8686.
Other
My Old Lady, Kevin Kline plays a down-onhis-luck New Yorker who inherits his estranged
father’s appartment. Part of the Little Cinema
screenings at the Berkshire Museum, 39 South
Street, Pittsfield. 7 p.m. (413) 443-7171.
Saturday, Jan. 10
Music
Other
Tuesday Night Trivia, test your skills during
Trivia night At Mazcots. 490 Pittsfield Road,
Lenox. 8 p.m. (413) 499-1101.
Poker Night, Texas Hold ‘Em at The Brickhouse. 425 Park Street, North Housatonic.
7:30 p.m. (413) 275-0020.
Texas Hold ‘Em, free poker night at the
Route 63 Roadhouse. 32 Federal Street,
Miller Falls. (413) 659-3384.
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Wednesday, Jan. 7
Tom Savoy, performing at the Lion’s Den
The Deadbeats, live musical performance.
At the Low Beat, 335 Central Avenue, Albany N.Y. 9:30 p.m. (518) 432-6572.
Moonshine Holler, folk duo performs live
at Gedney Underground at Gedney Farm.
34 Hartsville-New Marlborough Road, New
Marlborough. 8 p.m.
Glen Boden and Vinnie Brandi, performing
with no cover at Port Smitts, 370 Pecks Road,
Pittsfield. 7 p.m. (413) 236-5727.
performing folk, rock and americana tunes
hosted by Dave Brown and Chris Merenda.
At Mission Bar and Tapas, 438 North Street,
Pittsfield. 8 p.m. missionbarandtapas.com.
DJ I.T.S., performing at Bogies Steak & Ale.
(413) 528-5959.
Ray Mason, performing at the Lion’s Den
Live Music at the Heritage, musical performances at the Olde Heritage Tavern.
12 Housatonic Street, Lenox. 8 p.m. (413)
637-0884.
Open Mic Night, at the Route 63 Roadhouse. 32 Federal Street, Miller Falls. 9
p.m. (413) 659-3384.
Country Night, hosted by Randy Cormier
at the Underground Pub at Crowne Plaza.
1 West Street, Pittsfield. 9 p.m. (413) 5532214.
Ferriday, performing live with Kitty Little
and Many Trails. At the Low Beat, 335
Central Avenue, Albany N.Y. 8 p.m. (518)
432-6572.
Quarter Life Crisis, acoustic duo Brian
Benlien and Jim Witherell perform at the
Music
Other
Trivia Night, at The Brick House Pub. 425
North Housatonic Street. 6 p.m. (413)274 0020.
Trivia, test your knowledge at the Mill Town
Tavern Trivia Night. 16 Depot Street, Dalton.
8 p.m. (413) 684-0900.
Drag Bingo, with host Kandi Korn with prizes
up to $200. At Rumpy’s Tavern at the Village
Inn, 16 Church Street, Lenox. 9 p.m. (413)
637-0020 ex. 385.
Thursday, Jan. 8
Music
Picky Bastards, a local musician collective
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Helado Negro, musician and performance artists Roberto Carlos Lange, will perform
his latest musical/visual project Island Universe Story at MASS MoCA on Jan. 24.
Noah Flamenca’s Antigone, a flemenco
interpretation of the
text and themes in
Sophocles play comes
to the Mahaiwe on
Jan. 23.
Mill Town Tavern, 16 Depot Street, Dalton.
9 p.m. (413) 684-0900.
Other
Off the Map with Joan Ackermann, a special screening and talk of the 2003 film from
Camplbell Scott with Joan Ackermann, artistic
director of Great Barrington’s Mixed Company
theater and the writer of the film’s screenplay.
Part of the Little Cinema screenings at the
Berkshire Museum, 39 South Street, Pittsfield.
7 p.m. (413) 443-7171.
Friday, Jan. 9
Music
Willie and Jan Band, performing at the
Lion’s Den at the Red Lion Inn. 30 Main
Street, Stockbridge. 9 p.m. (413) 298-5545.
Livingston Taylor, a live performance
with special guest Chelsea Berry. At the
Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center Street,
Northampton. 7 p.m. (413) 586-8686.
DJ Stylus and DJ Sen-Gee, the two local
DJs spinning hip hop, R&B, Reggae and
more at the Underground Pub at Crowne
Plaza. 9:30 p.m. (413) 553-2214.
Peter Boyd, solo acoustic performance
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Sister Sparrow and the
Dirty Birds, Arleigh
Kincheloe and her
band perform with
The Sexual Reptiles at
Club Helsinki Hudson
in Hudson N.Y. Jan. 16
The Concert that
Never Was, two of
the areas best cover
bands perform the hits
of Led Zepplin and the
Who at Fairways at the
A on Jan. 31
Diva and the Dirty Boys, performing at
the Lion’s Den at the Red Lion Inn. 30 Main
Livingston Taylor, a live performance
with special guest Chelsea Berry. At the
Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center Street,
Northampton. 7 p.m. (413) 586-8686.
Mark Gamsjager and The Lustre Kings,
celebrating the 80th birthday of the King,
Elvis Presley with special guests. At Club
Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia Street,
Hudson, N.Y. 9 p.m. (518) 828-4800.
Rev Tor Solo, infectious melodies and
improvised from the one-man band. At
Mazcots. 490 Pittsfield Road, Lenox. 2 p.m.
(413) 499-1101.
Other
Rock Angel, Berkshire County Author and
New Lebannon Library Director Jeanne
Bogino will sign copies of her book Rock
Angle. At Water Street Books, 29 Water
Street Williamstown. 12 to 2 p.m. (413)
458-8072.
Sunday, Jan. 11
Music
Jeffry Folmer, performing at the Lion’s
Den at the Red Lion Inn. 30 Main Street,
Stockbridge. 8 p.m. (413) 298-5545.
The Sunday Musical Brunch, live performances with brunch at the Starving Artists
Creperie & Cafe. 40 Main Street, Suite 2,
Lee. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. (413)394-5046.
Willie Watson, the former Old Crow Medicine Show frontman performs with special
guest Mark Mandeville and Raianne
Off the Map with
Joan Ackermann,
Berkshire Museum
hosts a screening of
the film and a discussion with Ackerman
Jan. 8.
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Richards. At the Iron Horse Music Hall, 20
Center Street, Northampton. 7 p.m. (413)
586-8686.
Monday, Jan. 12
Music
Jazz with Andy Wrba and Friends, the jazz
musician performs with rotating guests featuring some of the county’s best musicians.
Mary Ann Palermo performing at the Lion’s
Stockbridge. 8 p.m. (413) 298-5545.
Other
Spoken Work and Poetry, a blend of poetry,
story telling and spoken word performances
at the Good Purpose Gallery, 40 Main Street,
Lee. 6:30 p.m. (41#) 394-5045.
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, a movie event
featuring the Tim Burton classic starring Paul
Reubens. At the Palace Theater, 19 Clinton
Avenue, Albany, N.Y. 7 p.m. (518) 465-3334.
Tuesday, Jan. 13
Music
Tom Corrigan, performing at the Lion’s
Stockbridge. 8 p.m. (413) 298-5545.
Mission Open Mic Nights, open to all
hosted by Jordan Franklin at Mission Bar
and Tapas. 438 North Street, Pittsfield. 8
9 p.m. (413) 528-5959.
(413)458-0095.
(413) 586-8686.
Comedy
Low Down Comedy Open Mic, At the Low
Beat, 335 Central Avenue, Albany N.Y. 7 p.m.
(518) 432-6572.
Other
Lenox. 8 p.m. (413) 499-1101.
7:30 p.m. (413) 275-0020.
Miller Falls. (413) 659-3384.
Wednesday, Jan. 14
Music
David Reed, performing at the Lion’s Den
Jeff Daniels with the Ben Daniel Band,
the star of HBO’s Newsroom shows off his
music chops on tour with his son’s band. At
the Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center Street,
Northampton. 7 p.m. (413) 586-8686.
Other
North Housatonic Street. 6 p.m. (413)274
0020.
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Other
8 p.m. (413) 684-0900.
Drag Bingo, with host Kandi Korn with
prizes up to $200. At Rumpy’s Tavern at
the Village Inn, 16 Church Street, Lenox. 9
p.m. (413) 637-0020 ex. 385.
North Housatonic Street. 6 p.m. (413)274
0020.
8 p.m. (413) 684-0900.
Drag Bingo, with host Kandi Korn with
prizes up to $200. At Rumpy’s Tavern at
the Village Inn, 16 Church Street, Lenox. 9
p.m. (413) 637-0020 ex. 385.
Thursday, Jan. 15
Music
Cosby Gibson, performing at the Lion’s
Stockbridge. 8 p.m. (413) 298-5545.
(413) 528-5959.
Quarter Life Crisis, acoustic duo Brian
Benlien and Jim Witherell perform at the
Mill Town Tavern, 16 Depot Street, Dalton.
9 p.m. (413) 684-0900.
Live Music at the Heritage, musical performances at the Olde Heritage Tavern.
12 Housatonic Street, Lenox. 8 p.m. (413)
637-0884.
Open Mic Night, at the Route 63 Roadhouse. 32 Federal Street, Miller Falls. 9
p.m. (413) 659-3384.
at the Underground Pub at Crowne Plaza.
1 West Street, Pittsfield. 9 p.m. (413) 5532214.
Friday, Jan. 16
Music
The Malibu Brothers, performing live at
the Rainbow Restaurant. 109 First Street,
Pittsfield. 7:30 p.m. (413) 553-2214.
The Highland Band, performing at the
DJ Stylus and DJ Sen-Gee, the two local
DJs spinning hip hop, R&B, Reggae and
more at the Underground Pub at Crowne
Plaza. 9:30 p.m. (413) 553-2214.
Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, performing with The Sexual Reptiles at Club
Helsinki Hudson. 405 Columbia Street,
Hudson, N.Y. 9 p.m. (518) 828-4800.
Rev Tor Solo, infectious melodies and
improvised from the one-man band. At
(413) 499-1101.
Road, Becket. 9 p.m. (413) 623-8711.
p.m. (413) 743-0193.
Other
Doctor Zhivago, a special screening of the
1965 David Lean film starting Omar Sharif,
Julie Christie and Geraldine Chaplin. At
the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14
Castle Street, Great Barrington. 7 p.m.
(413) 528-0100.
Saturday, Jan. 17
Theater
Lehar’s “The Merry Widow”, a special
screening of the Met Opera Live in HD
performance starring Renee Fleming. A
lecture with Scott Eyerly will be held prior to
the performance at 11 a.m. At the Mahaiwe
Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street,
Great Barrington. 1 p.m. (413) 528-0100.
Thursday, Jan. 22
Music
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Acclaimed actor Jeff Daniels shows off his music talents on tour with his son when Jeff
Daniels and The Ben Daniels Band comes to The Iron Horse in Northampton on Jan. 14.
Music
The Piper Hopkins Duo, performing at the
Albany Symphony Orchestra, a classical
concert with a program of Mendelssohn’s
Scottish Symphony. At the Palace Theater,
19 Clinton Avenue, Albany, N.Y. 7:30 p.m.
(518) 465-3334.
Jeff Folmer, singer, songwriter and guitarist
performs. At Mazcots. 490 Pittsfield Road,
Lenox. 2 p.m. (413) 499-1101.
Sunday, Jan. 18
Music
Eric Erickson, performing at the Lion’s
Stockbridge. 8 p.m. (413) 298-5545.
Creperie & Cafe. 40 Main Street, Suite 2,
Lee. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. (413)394-5046.
Monday, Jan. 19
Music
Joe Bonamassa, the guitar virtuoso performs a show with his live touring band
and solo to feature rare, vintage, organic
and oddball instruments. At the Palace
Theater, 19 Clinton Avenue, Albany, N.Y.
8 p.m. (518) 465-3334
Tom Carroll, performing at the Lion’s Den
Tuesday, Jan. 20
Music
Art Steel, performing at the Lion’s Den at
the Red Lion Inn. 30 Main Street, Stockbridge. 8 p.m. (413) 298-5545. Open Mic
Night, at Bogies Steak and Ale. 935 South
Main Street, Great Barrington. 9 p.m. (413)
528-5959.
(413)458-0095.
(413) 586-8686.
Other
Lenox. 8 p.m. (413) 499-1101.
7:30 p.m. (413) 275-0020.
Miller Falls. (413) 659-3384.
Wednesday, Jan. 21
Music
Robin O’Harin, performing at the Lion’s
Stockbridge. 8 p.m. (413) 298-5545.
(413) 528-5959.
Jeff Gonzales, performing at the Lion’s Den at
the Red Lion Inn. 30 Main Street, Stockbridge.
8 p.m. (413) 298-5545.
Quarter Life Crisis, acoustic duo Brian Benlien
and Jim Witherell perform at the Mill Town
Tavern, 16 Depot Street, Dalton. 9 p.m. (413)
684-0900.
Live Music at the Heritage, musical performances at the Olde Heritage Tavern. 12 Housatonic Street, Lenox. 8 p.m. (413) 637-0884.
Open Mic Night, at the Route 63 Roadhouse.
32 Federal Street, Miller Falls. 9 p.m. (413)
659-3384.
at the Underground Pub at Crowne Plaza. 1
West Street, Pittsfield. 9 p.m. (413) 553-2214.
Friday, Jan. 23
Theater
Noche Flamenca’s Antigona, a flamenco intpretation of the text and themes in Sophocles
play. At the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center,
14 Castle Street, Great Barrington. 8 p.m.
(413) 528-0100.
Other
Monday, Jan. 26
Sunday, Jan. 25
Sandy and Sandy, performing at the Lion’s
Stockbridge. 8 p.m. (413) 298-5545.
Stockbridge. 9 p.m. (413) 298-5545.
Cabin Fever Caberet, The Bindlestiff Family
Cirkus will perform its wintertime tradition for
month cabarets featuring cicus, theater, comedy and musical entertainers. At Club Helsinki
Hudson, 405 Columbia Street, Hudson, N.Y.
9 p.m. (518) 828-4800.
Theater
“Swan Lake”, a presentation of the Boloshoi
Ballet in HD of the timeless classic. At the
Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle
Street, Great Barrington. 1 p.m. (413) 5280100.
Music
Music
Saturday, Jan. 24
Music
Helado Negro: Island Universe Story,
bilingual musician Roberto Carlos Lange
performs his new musical/visual project in
development with eight musicians including
Mikael Jorgensen of Wilco, members of the
William Onyeabor Atomic Bomb Band and
Marc Ribot’s band. At the Hunter Center at
Mass Moca. 87 Marshall Street, North Adams.
8 p.m. (413) 662-2111.
Bruce Mandel, live performance at Rainbow
Restaurant, 101 First Street, Pittsfield. 7:30
p.m. (413) 443-0002.
Nico Wohl Quartet, performing at the Lion’s
Low Down Comedy Open Mic, At the Low
Beat, 335 Central Avenue, Albany N.Y. 7 p.m.
(518) 432-6572.
Other
Tuesday, Jan. 27
Lenox. 8 p.m. (413) 499-1101.
7:30 p.m. (413) 275-0020.
Texas Hold ‘Em, free poker night at the Route
63 Roadhouse. 32 Federal Street, Miller Falls.
(413) 659-3384.
Lehar’s “The Merry Widow”, an encore
screening of the Met Opera Live in HD performance starring Renee Fleming. A lecture
Wednesday, Jan. 28
Theater
Why choose Brockman?
Music
Grahm Sturz, performing at the Lion’s Den at
8 p.m. (413) 298-5545.
Other
We simply give our very best to every client, every time.
Trivia Night, at The Brick House Pub. 425 North
Housatonic Street. 6 p.m. (413)274 0020.
Tavern Trivia Night. 16 Depot Street, Dalton. 8
p.m. (413) 684-0900.
Drag Bingo, with host Kandi Korn with prizes
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Music
DJ Stylus and DJ Sen-Gee, the two local DJs
spinning hip hop, R&B, Reggae and more at
the Underground Pub at Crowne Plaza. 9:30
p.m. (413) 553-2214.
Bev and John, performing at the Lion’s Den at
9 p.m. (413) 298-5545.
Road, Becket. 9 p.m. (413) 623-8711.
p.m. (413) 743-0193.
Blue Light Trio, Rainbow Restaurant, 101 First
Street, Pittsfield. 7:30 p.m. (413) 443-0002.
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Music
The Adams Brothers, performing at the Lion’s
Den at the Red Lion Inn. 30 Main Street, Stockbridge. 8 p.m. (413) 298-5545.
Picky Bastards, a local musician collective performing folk, rock and americana tunes hosted
by Dave Brown and Chris Merenda. At Mission
Bar and Tapas, 438 North Street, Pittsfield. 8
935 South Main Street, Great Barrington. (413)
528-5959.
Quarter Life Crisis, acoustic duo Brian Benlien
and Jim Witherell perform at the Mill Town Tavern,
16 Depot Street, Dalton. 9 p.m. (413) 684-0900.
Live Music at the Heritage, musical performances at the Olde Heritage Tavern. 12 Housatonic
Street, Lenox. 8 p.m. (413) 637-0884.
Open Mic Night, at the Route 63 Roadhouse. 32
Federal Street, Miller Falls. 9 p.m. (413) 659-3384.
Country Night, hosted by Randy Cormier at
the Underground Pub at Crowne Plaza. 1 West
Friday, Jan. 30
Music
Benefit for the Environment, sponsored by
the Berkshire Environmental Action Team
with performances by Sandy McNight & the
Idea and Matchbox Architects. At Fairways at
the A, 303 Crane Avenue, Pittsfield. 2 p.m.
(413) 442-3585.
Oakes and Smith, performing at the Lion’s
Stockbridge. 8 p.m. (413) 298-5545.
Creperie & Cafe. 40 Main Street, Suite 2, Lee.
11 a.m. to 1 p.m. (413)394-5046.
Community Music Space, presenting their
young performers showcase, featuring some
of the areas most talented young musicians. At
Club Helsinki Hudson, 405 Columbia Street,
Hudson, N.Y. 6 p.m. (518) 828-4800.
with Scott Eyerly will be held prior to the
performance at 11 a.m. At the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great
Barrington. 1 p.m. (413) 528-0100.
Music
Christopher John, performing at the Lion’s
Stockbridge. 8 p.m. (413) 298-5545.
Latin Night, hosted by DJ Alexavier and DJ
Chico. At the Iron Horse Music Hall, 20 Center
Street, Northampton. 10 p.m. (413) 586-8686.
935 South Main Street, Great Barrington. 9
p.m. (413) 528-5959.
(413)458-0095.
Jeannie and John, performing at the Lion’s Den
at the Red Lion Inn. 30 Main Street, Stockbridge.
9 p.m. (413) 298-5545.
Rob Sanzone, performing his energetic and
powerful set. At Mazcots. 490 Pittsfield Road,
Lenox. 9 p.m. (413) 499-1101.
Saturday Jan. 31
Music
The Concert that Never Was, two great classic
rock coverbands, Who Art You and American
Zeppelin perform the rock and roll icons greatest hits at Fairways at the A. 303 Crane Avenue,
Pittsfield. 8 p.m. (413) 442-3585.
Mike McMann, performing everything from
classic rock to bluegrass and more. At
(413) 499-1101.
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`Music
`
Music Mogul
in the making
launches off
Brandyn ‘Lefty’ King Powell is making his move to
be the go-to media man
of the Berkshires.
By Tom Casey
I
f you’re looking to break out in the
Berkshires’ music scene, you have to
call Lefty.
Brandyn “Lefty” King Powell, 26, is
Pittsfield’s go-to guy for everything from
recording to video shoots to photography.
He’s a one-man media empire doing it all
out of his home.
“I want to be a one-stop shop for
musicians,” said Powell. “Everyone needs
a video, everyone needs beats, a press
kit, promotion. Anything you need you
can get it done all in one spot ... you can
come to me and get
it done.”
►► Powell
Lefty is well known
has become in the Pittsfield
Pittsfield’s music scene as the
go-to music
guy to call when
producer
you’re trying to get
an album together.
Powell runs Lefty’s Frozen Moments, a
photography and videography company
as well as Pilots Club Music Group, a
hip-hop collective where he produces and
records songs.
Powell has been working with local
artists in the area for years, and has turned
his home into the epicenter of his media
company. But before he became a fixture
in the scene, he took his first steps into
music, thanks to his older brother.
“My brother was a DJ around town;
I’ve always loved music but he was the
reason I wanted to start doing it on my
own,” he said. “I used to love watching
him do it.”
He started making music with his
friend Chandler Lynch. The two put some
money into at-home recording equipment
and started offering to record for other
local artists.
“I was sick of paying other people,
I could just use my own stuff and then
make it back on top of that, I had my man
[Lynch] so I knew we had people that
would have gotten use out of it, and then
making money to get use out of it.”
Powell said it was Lynch who encouraged him to really put the money into
getting new, top of the line equipment.
The entrepreneur put more than $14,000
in equipment and converted his basement
into a recording studio.
“We had the computer [setup] but
really building a studio was based off
[Lynch]. He made me really want to fully
put the money into this,” said Powell. “We
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were making a little buzz with the little bit he’d be mad I wasn’t doing it, but I had to
step back.”
equipment we had so if we could get the
equipment to put us further that the people Powell turned his focus and energy
to producing other musicians, building
who have already made it we could have
his business from the ground up. Powell,
did something, he was really the one who
with an interest in graphic design and eye
pushed me to do it.”
for photography, began studying programs
But as the two were ready to make
and techniques to expand what he offered
their big leap, tragedy altered their plans.
to include more multimedia.
While at a friends house, just following a
“Online you can find anything so
session at
it was like going to
Powell’s home, Lynch
school for free. I was
died from a gunshot to
going 24/7 and I studthe head.
“No
matter
what
ied everything, but
“He was messing
you do in life, you that’s how I look at it.
with a gun and it hit him
right in the head ... right will never know how No matter what you
in life, you have to
in front of me,” said
good you are unless do
give it your all. You
Powell. “We had just
you give it your all.” will never know how
left here, not even 20
minutes before that.”
Brandyn “Lefty” Powell good you are unless
you give it your all. “
The accident made
While the
Powell step away from
projects are a passion, they are not simply
recording his own music.
a hobby. Powell does it all while raising
“I got stuck, I stopped doing my own
two kids and working a fulltime job at a
music, and started doing it for others, He
paper mill. He routinely will pull 14-tosaid. “It was me and him forever and It
15-hour days to keep up production on his
felt weird to try and do anything without
media business as a means to continue to
him so I took a break from that ... I know
Tom Casey
Brandyn “Lefty,” King Powell at work in his studio in Pittsfield. Powell put $14,000
into equipment and software to convert his basement into a recording studio
Lefty’s Frozen Moments
Brandyn “Lefty,” King Powell with CoCo Austin; actress, model and wife of Ice-T; at
a photo shoot on New Year’s Eve.
provide for his family. But the long days
can prove challenging.
“Time management is big, there are
some days where I have so much that I
think ‘how am I going to fit all this in, but
it also inspires me to go even harder,” he
said. “If you don’t love what you’re doing why do it.”
The hard work has paid off, Powell has worked with many of the areas
musicians, with about 15 performers
consistently coming in to his studio, and
more putting him at the top of their list
for all his services primarily through
word of mouth endorsements, including
internationally acclaimed fashion designer
Indashio.
“I have to give a big shout out to
Indashio, he’s been great getting my name
out there,” said Powell. “Ever since I
worked his F.A.M.E. walk event he’s been
getting my name out a lot ... I’m going to
be doing one of my first celebrity shoots
for CoCo, Ice T’s Wife, and that is all
because of Indashio.”
With bigger names turning to Lefty,
his push into media mogul is getting
stronger, but he still wants to be a place
for artists in the area to come and record
as long as they are will to put in the effort.
“There is really no one out here,
shooting with the same quality or equipment I have, so I’m here for the people
that invest in themselves,” he said. “If
you are willing to put the money up I’m
definitely willing to help.”
He also wants to highlight the region
through his videography work. Powell is
currently working on a documentary “The
Campaign,” about local musicians, DJ’s
clothing designers and models and has
plans to for a feature length film covering
the different music of the region.
“I want to do a short film that features
of a bunch of different types of music with
a storyline in the film but with real artists
doing their songs,” he said. “Something
to show everyone and bring it all into one
place about the music aspect of Massachusetts.”
Ultimately, Powell said he wants to
help spur collaborations between the different music scenes in the area.
“I want to bring people together and
make good music, “ he said. “Even if I’m
just in the background, that is something
that will generate something good for
all of us. That’s a good project to get
involved with that can generate a whole
scene out of it.”
Lefty has also expanded beyond
music with his photography, shooting
everything from weddings to birthdays
through his website facebook.com/leftysfrozenmoments.
“Everywhere, every turn I am there
trying to make it,” he said.
As for those looking to follow in his
footsteps, he said they need to be dedicated.
“Believe in yourself, you have to
believe you can do it,” he said. “Be all the
way, 100 percent into it if you are going to
do it.”
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`Live
`
Music
Gypsy Joynt
The Joynt offers some of the best local
musicians the Berkshires have to offer, as well
as acts from across the country, and with the
stage at the center of the restaurant, seating
will put you right up in front of the acts for
an intimate fun showcase. If performing
is for you, try out your own talents with a
weekly open mic.
293 Main Street,
Great Barrington
413.644.8811
gypsy joyntcafe.net
`local
`
bands
Milltown Tavern
Newly renovated from what was once
“Benny’s Restaurant” the Milltown Tavern
offers the same spirit of the local spot to
be for food, drinks and music. The tavern is
transformed into a music venue for weekly
offerings of open mics and house bands
as well as performances from local artists.
Come and enjoy a wide selection of craft
and domestic beers, and a full bar. Awardwinning wings and burgers are just some
of the tantalizing offerings you can find on
their menu.
16 depot Street,
Dalton
413.684.0900
Milltowntavern.com
Upstate Concert Hall
Originally called Northern Lights, this venue
is a beloved spot to New York’s capital
region concert go-ers. Catch some of the
top alternative acts and old favorites as well
as local showcases and more. The general
admission format allows anyone to get close,
and the venue offers a well stocked bar and
concessions.
1208 Route 146.
Clifton Park, N.Y.
518.371. 0012
upstateconcerthall.com
PortSmitt’s Restaurant
PortSmitt’s Restaurant, has quickly become
a “Berkshire dining favorite” under the
guidance and expertise, of local Chef Mike
Lewis. For years, Chef Lewis has served
Berkshire County residents and visitors
alike. In addition to being an outstanding
restaurant, PortSmitt’s Restaurant has also
begun hosting great local music from bands
in the Berkshires.
320 Peck Road
Pittsfield
413.236. 5727
portssmittsrestaurant.com
Patrick Gray Jr.
Acoustic Rock
Gray comes from a musical family; he grew up
listening to his father play folk music whether
around a camp fire or performing on stage to
large crowds. “By 16, I was playing in local
rock bands,” Gray said. “Shortly thereafter I
was bitten by the recording bug, after doing
a few backing tracks in a local studio.” He
owns Shire Sound, a cozy project/recording
studio nestled in the Berkshire Hills. His
performances, which have been likened to
everyone from John Mayer to Edwin McCain,
can be seen throughout northern Berkshire
County. Not to mention the shows he plays
with J.P. Murphy, an Irish band formed by his
father in 1991. This summer you can catch
him Sunday nights from 8 to 11 p.m. at the
Purple Pub in Williamstown hosting a local
open mic.
Website: reverbnation.com/patrickgray
Mission Bar + Tapas
For a relaxing intimate atmosphere to take in a
drink and hear some great music Mission Bar
and Tapas is at the top of the list. The venue
located in Pittsfield’s down town, the bar and
music hall offers food throughout the day and
a full bar as well as a special brunch menu. The
site is host to several house bands performing
weekly as well as special performances and a
host of the areas top musicians. An open mic
is also offered every Tuesday to showcase
local undiscovered musicians.
438 North Street
Pittsfield
missionbarandtapas.com
Fairways at the A
Helsinki Hudson
Get a taste of the Berkshires outside of
Massachusettes. Originally a mainstay in
Great Barrington, Helsinki crossed over
to New York and has thrived in the city of
Hudson. The venue offers both up-andcoming and established bands as well as
great dining and drinks.
Hudson, N.Y.
518.828.4800
helsinkihudson.com
With one of the largest dance floors in the
area, this location is a popular venue. They
cater showers, weddings, seasonal parties,
fundraisers, community events and private
parties. Many nights they feature live
entertainment - regional bands and DJs. They
also host seasonal popular sports tailgating
events with their large HD Screen Television.
303 Crane Ave
Pittsfield
413.442. 3585
fairwaysatthea.com
The Brick House Pub
Located in the heart of Housatonic, this bar
has an impressive mixture of great beer, great
food, and great music to make it a can’t-miss
destination. The space is also home to a series
of local artists and performances from bands
from across the country.
425 Park Street,
Housatonic
413. 274. 0020
brickhousema.com
The Best Albums of 2014
A year filled with fantastic
follow-ups
By Tom Casey
T
here was a lot to digest in 2014:
exciting debuts but a consistent
trend of incredible production
from established artists seemed
to be the theme of the year with great follow up albums from both new leaders of
the music scene to the return of influential
acts.
St. Vincent - St. Vincent. This was
yet another incredible year for Annie
Clark and her beautifully weird music,
following up to her brilliant 2011 release
Strange Mercy with the tremendous self
titled album. Clark said she opted for the
self title because it was “so clearly represents the sound I’ve always sought.” The
album certainly reflects that with a perfect
balance of her operatic hymnal vocals
interlaced with churning schizophrenic
guitar work and soaring electronica. Where 2012’s Strange Mercy was heavily
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dosed in synths, Clark, who has quietly
become one of the best and most interesting guitarist in music today, pushed the
guitar back to front and center with songs
like Regret and Birth in Reverse that
churn with fuzz and power. Ironically, one
of the album’s stand outs, Prince Johnny,
is almost completely lacking the instrument. Start to finish this is an album that
will not leave you surprised as to why its
been at the top of so many “Best of,” lists
this year.
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels
2. This album has been the talk of music
blogs since it dropped in October. The
breakout sophomore effort from rap duo
Run the Jewels, El-P and Killer Mike, is a
masterpiece of modern hip hop. Its packs
a heavy punch with a vibe that features
hints of early 90s hip hop sampling with
modern EDM and electronic sounds. The
group even unearths former Rage Against
the Machine front man Zack De La Roca
for one of the albums stand out tracks
“Close Your Eyes.”
Real Estate - Atlas. The third release
Photos contributed
Clockwise from top: St. Vincent, Run the Jewels, Real Estate and Wye Oak were at
the top of the pack for the best albums of 2014.
Whiskey City
Americana
This band has become a local favorite that
can fill any bar or concert with a packed
crowd.Led by front man Randy Cormier,
from the surf rockers picks up where their
2011 triumph Days left off. While the
album doesn’t take any wildly new turns
from their previous efforts the list the music is warm, upbeat and an enjoyable ride
from throughout.
Wye Oak - Shreik. A hallucinating
journey with the Baltimore rockers feels
like it was meant as a score to Alice in
Wonderland (pardon the Pink Floyd reference.) with Jenn Wasners vocals hauntingly distant and cavernous running to
what its title suggests. The band goes more
synth heavy for a dreamy album that is one
of 2014’s best.
TV on the Radio - Seeds: In a year
that saw new music from a few familiar
faces of the early aughts NYC indie scene
TVOTR’s Seed’s was easily the best. The
follow up to 2011’s Nine Types of Light,
Seeds is the bands first after bassist Gerard
Smith’s death from lung cancer, and has
the feel of a band soldiering on with another solid album.
Warpaint-Warpaint: Another triumph for female rockers came from these
indie rockers out of Los Angeles. Their
second full-length album shifts in style that
joined by band mates Frank Algerio, Beth
Maturevich, Dale Zavatter, Jason Webster
and Tim Sears, Whiskey City is a must see act
in the county. Cormier’s star quality, unique,
tireless voice and infamous audience
rapport have made him a crowd favorite.
This summer they are kicking off the Lenox
concert series and will be on other stages
across the county all summer long.
Website: whiskeycityband.com
Email: rcormier@nucleabio.com
Tony Lee Thomas
Indie Rock
Imagine the energetic strumming of Richie
Havens and the intricate finger work of Bert
Jansch. Add a vocal style that summons
Stevie Wonder and Martin Sexton. Then
take a songwriting vocabulary as poignant
as Ani DiFranco, playful as John Prine, and
add commanding stage presence, then
you have Tony Lee Thomas. In central
Berkshire County Thomas has become a
must-see performer, who is now catching
on throughout New England. His wealth
of performance experience lends him the
ability to connect with audiences spanning
a multi-faceted scope: from intimate and
poignant solo performances to momentous
full-blown commanding vamps with his
rock band, the Tony Lee Thomas Band. This
summer you can find the band playing shows
at the Dreamaway Lodge and many other
great local venues.
Website: tonyleethomas.com
Phone: (413) 218-8307
Booking information: shannon@
wickedcoolproductions.com
but builds upon their shoegaze and psychedelic infused sound reminiscent of “Turn
on the Bright Lights,” era Interpol.
Honorable mentions
Thom Yorke - Tomorrow Modern
Boxes. Coming in at 8 tracks it’s more
EP than album, but there are some great
ideas and sounds coming from this album
that make the wait for the highly anticipated 2015 Radiohead album that much
more excruciating. Bonus points given for
Yorke’s use of bittorrenting the album and
continuing his attempt to carve a new path
in how music is shared from artists to fan.
Shakey Graves - And the War Came.
A newcommer to the indie folk scene, his
mix of country blues and psyche folk has
gotten people’s attention. The album is far
from perfect, but with songs like Dearly
Departed showcasing Alejandro RoseGarcia’s talents as a singer and guitarist,
it’s certain you will be hearing more from
this artists in 2015 and beyond.
Taylor Swift - 1989. Say what you
will about the pop star, but the girl can sing
a hook with some incredibly catchy hits
that will eventually drive you insane by
this summer.
Katherine Winston
Americana
Katherine Winston is an Americana singersongwriter from Lenox who grew up
listening to all kinds of music, but with a
love of Shania Twain. As she has grown,
her musical influences have changed many
times, from country to folk, from blues to
pop. Now Wilson will tell you she is very
into artists such asJohnny Cash, John Paul
White, The Civil Wars, Matt Corby, and The
Lone Bellow. She has covered almost every
genre at one point or another. However,
once she started writing in the Americana
genre, she felt as though she had found
her fit. This winter you will find her locally
at the Lion’s Den, Market Place Café and
many other venues throughout the county.
Website: reverbnation.com/
katherinewinston
Email: winstonkatherine@gmail.com
Greylock
Rock & Roll Cover Band
Made up of local musicians Kevin Doolan,
Dave Flynn, Bob Jones and Matt McKeever,
this band is known for great classic rock
like the Doobies, Steely Dan, Boz Scaggs,
Chicago and more. There classic rock vibe
and smooth sound has filled the Live on the
Lake series and built a large following at
venues throughout Berkshire County. You
can find them playing at Spice Dragon, the
ITAM Lodge and may other venues around
Pittsfield all year long.
Phone: (413) 446-5125
Website: facebook.com/ Greylock-the-band
Email: greylockboys@gmail.com
Jordan Weller & The
Feathers
Funk/Reggae
This high energy band meshes the laid back
grooves and rhythm of Bob Marley with the
fun and flare of James Brown.
Front man Jordan Weller on guitar and
vocals leads the group also comprised of
guitarist Rob Sanzone, Miles Lally on bass,
drummer Jason Schulteis and organist
Joe Rose.
Their original as well their own spin on
covers that dip across the musical spectrum
have vaulted the band into regional
favorites.
You’re sure to catch them at Weller’s home
base, the Gypsy Joynt, throughout the fall
as well as shows springing up across the
county and over the border in New York.
Website: jordanwellermusic.com
Phone: (413) 644-8811
Email: jordanwellermusic@gmail.com
Photos contributed
2014 featured great follow-up releases from, Clockwise from top, TV on the Radio,
Shakey Graves, Warpaint and Thom Yorke.
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`Theater
`
Jacob’s Pillow
is already gearing up for a jampacked summer
on its stages
I
t maybe the middle of winter, but Jacobs Pillow is kicking off the New Year
by looking forward to this summer.
Following the critical acclaim and
record-breaking attendance of Festival
2014, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival announces a new season of exciting activity.
Highlights of Festival 2015 include Three
Acts, Two Dancers, One Radio Host, a
special dance and radio stage production
starring public radio’s Ira Glass; the return
of Nederlands Dans Theater 2; the U.S.
debut of Gauthier Dance//Dance Company
Theaterhaus Stuttgart from Germany; the
world premiere of American Ballet Theatre
principal dancer Daniil Simkin’s INTENSIO; Cuban contemporary ensemble
Malpaso Dance Company, performing with
GRAMMY Award-winning pianist and
composer Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro
Latin Jazz Orchestra; and the launch of
Martha Graham Dance Company’s 90th
Anniversary, including a world premiere by
eminent choreographer Mats Ek.
“Festival 2015 delivers a remarkable
range of dance from ballet to tap, music
from classical to jazz, brand new works
commissioned by the Pillow, and the most
astonishing performers in the world,”
comments Ella Baff, Executive and Artistic
Director of Jacob’s Pillow. “We start the
season with Ira Glass’s Three Acts, Two
Dancers, One Radio Host and the reopening of the Jacob’s Pillow Archives as
we celebrate the 20th anniversary of public
access and a major expansion of its home,
Blake’s Barn. We end with a celebration of
the 90th anniversary of the Martha Graham
Dance Company, a world premiere by
Mats Ek, and the up and coming company
MADboots Dance. Quite a range indeed.”
Live music is prevalent throughout
the season and will be featured in performances by Jessica Lang Dance, Dorrance
Dance, Daniel Ulbricht and Stars of
American Ballet, Daniil Simkin’s INTENSIO, La Otra Orilla, and Malpaso Dance
Company. Jacob’s Pillow is committed
to presenting and commissioning new
work; Festival 2015 features many world
premiere engagements including Daniil
Simkin’s INTENSIO and Martha Graham
Dance Company in VED by Mats Ek,
plus premiere works by La Otra Orilla and
Ricardo Graziano of The Sarasota Ballet.
Many Festival 2015 artists have developed
work during Creative Development Residencies at Jacob’s Pillow, including Jessica
Lang, Michelle Dorrance, Annie-B Parson,
and Jonathan Campbell and Austin Diaz of
MADboots Dance.
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`Film
`
The artist faculty members of The
School at Jacob’s Pillow are equally international and diversely experienced. The
2015 Program Directors include esteemed
ballet luminary Anna-Marie Holmes;
Ailey School and Juilliard faculty member Milton Myers;
►► Highlights Broadway veteran,
include new choreographer, and
director Chet Walker;
shows and
and New York Dance
GRAMMY
winners
and Performance
(“Bessie”) Awardwinning choreographer and artistic director
Camille A. Brown, with scholar and artist
E. Moncell Durden.
The Program Directors will be joined
by dance artists, choreographers, and
artistic directors from across the globe. The
Ballet Program roster includes Ballet BC
Artistic Director Emily Molnar; BalletX
co-founder and co-Artistic Director Matthew Neenan (who will create a new work
on the dancers of the Ballet Program); and
Hungarian National Ballet Director, ballet
master, and dancer Tamás Solymosi. Contemporary Program Director Milton Myers
brings a celebrated range of guest choreographers including 2013 MacArthur Fellow
and Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award-winner
Kyle Abraham; 2013 Guggenheim Fellow
Brian Brooks; and Emily Molnar.
Myers will also lead a diversely talented
faculty, including LeeSaar The Company
Artistic Director Saar Harari; former
Boston Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, and
Hamburg Ballet soloist Peter Brandenhoff;
former choreographer for Les Ballets Trocadero de Monte Carlo Pamela Pribisco;
2007 Princess Grace Award recipient
Meredith Webster; and Juilliard School faculty member Alphonse Poulin. Additional
faculty will be announced in the spring.
A major expansion of Blake’s Barn,
home of the Jacob’s Pillow Archives, will
be completed by June of 2015, adding
more than 700 square feet to the Reading
Room and effectively tripling space for
both public access and climate-controlled
storage.
The expansion coincides with the
20th anniversary of public access to the
Archives, which houses one of the most
significant collections on the dance field,
including books, letters, costumes, photographs, and films from as early as 1894
through the Pillow’s most recent Festival.
On average, 22,000 visitors attend talks
and exhibitions in Blake’s Barn each
summer, and additional visits by scholars,
artists, and the general public take place
throughout the year.
The new Reading Room will feature
additional space for the extensive dance
library and new visitor reading areas, additional HD video viewing stations, and a
dedicated area for small groups to gather
for communal video viewing.
The lower floor of Blake’s Barn will
increase by 1,200 square feet to accommodate additional archival storage and documentation workspace. Jacob’s Pillow will
celebrate the re-opening of Blake’s Barn
with a ribbon cutting and other festivities
onJune 23.
Prior to the Festival, Jacob’s Pillow
and MASS MoCA will present Keigwin +
Company at MASS MoCA’s Hunter Center,
April 11 and 12. Witty, fun, and provocative, choreographer Larry Keigwin’s dances
merge high art with pure entertainment.
This program includesWaterfront, inspired by the drama of Leonard Bernstein’s
score for “On the Waterfront”; the vigorous, precise dance Triptych; and Panic,
Larry Keigwin’s first new solo in 10 years.
Tickets available at massmoca.org.
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival announced a new season of exciting activity to fill the stages in 2015.
Photo contributed
`Must
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See
The Best Films
of 2014
Looking back at an
interesting, if
scattered, year
Tak3n (January 9)
Liam Neeson returns
as CIA operative Brian
Mills in the third and
final installment of the
globetrotting action
franchise.
By Shea Garner
D
espite the sheer amount of sequels
and remakes that ended up being
released this year, 2014 produced
an impressive amount of original
films. While franchise fodder like “Captain
America,” “Godzilla,” and “The Hobbit”
proved entertaining; it was the small-scale
releases that tended to dazzle, offering intriguing performances and unique storytelling. It’s a sign that audiences are still hungry
for original content and musters some
semblance of hope for the year ahead. The
following ten films are not ranked and listed
alphabetically.
The Babadook
Jennifer Kent’s debut film is genuinely
scary. It’s the first
horror film since
►► A few
last year’s “The
films shined
Conjuring” to
through as
the years
deliver on both a
best
storytelling and
atmospheric level.
Kent expertly portrays the supernatural
connection between a woeful widow and the
monster that haunts her adolescent son.
Birdman
This film soars, thanks to stellar
performances from Michael Keaton and
Emma Stone. As former stars of big-budget
superhero movies, Keaton and Stone are the
perfect candidates to help director Alejandro
González Iñárritu orchestrate this scathing
critique of the current state of Hollywood.
Boyhood
Richard Linklater’s nostalgic snapshot
of growing up in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s
is quite possibly the best film of the year.
Filmed in increments over the course of
12 years, “Boyhood” is truly revolutionary
filmmaking and features an award-worthy
supporting performance from actress Patricia Arquette.
Calvary
This overlooked gem is, from a cinematographic standpoint, one of the most
breathtaking depictions of rural Ireland in
recent memory. Brendan Gleeson succeeds
at portraying a noble priest who must face
a humanized version of the seven circles of
hell in this darkly comedic character study.
Fury
David Ayer directs Brad Pitt, Logan Lerman, Shia LeBeouf, Michael Pena, and Jon
Bernthal in this captivating WWII thriller
set almost entirely inside of an M4A3E8
Sherman tank. The film captures the true
horrors experienced and inflicted upon both
U.S. and German troops with unabashedly
raw honesty.
Blackhat
(January 16)
Michael Mann (Heat,
Collateral) directs
Chris Hemsworth in
this thriller about a
hunt for an elusive
cyber criminal.
Photo contributed
‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ (top) and ‘Fury’ were two of the biggest hits of 2014.
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson’s latest is his most Wes
Anderson-y Wes Anderson movie to date.
In his best work since 2001’s “The Royal
Tenenbaums,” the titular director crafts an
intriguing tale of European murder and mystery and extracts an excellent performance
from leading-man Ralph Fiennes.
The Guest
This campy surprise from newcomer
Adam Wingard, director of recent horror hits
“V/H/S” and “You’re Next,” pays tribute to
the synth-laden action thrillers of the 1980s.
Dan Stevens is terrific as a mysterious,
recently discharged soldier who decides to
terrorize a small, Midwestern family.
Interstellar
Matthew McConaughey continued
his run as the hottest leading man in the
industry with this timely Christopher Nolan
project. The special effects, score, and epic
scope of “Interstellar” harkened back to the
glory days of blockbuster cinema by inspiring a childlike sense of wonder and awe.
Locke
Tom Hardy’s one-man performance in
“Locke,” taking place entirely in the inside
of his character’s car, rivals Michael Keaton
for the best of the year. Director Steven
Knight’s use of the confined setting only
adds to the film’s sense of urgency, as the
secretive plot points are unveiled.
Nightcrawler
This examination of modern news
media is the most telling satire of American culture since 1976’s “Network.” Jake
Gyllenhaal lost almost 30 pounds for his
role as a hungry freelance video journalist
who may or may not be a complete and utter
sociopath. It’s wildly entertaining.
Still Alice
(January 16)
Julianne Moore eyes an
Oscar for her portrayal
of a doctor with early
onset Alzheimer’s
disease.
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`Weekend
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Warrior
`First
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Taste
The clone wars
By Kollin Kozlowski
C
remant is a term, used in
France’s AOC system, that
categorizes sparkling made
in any other region besides
Champagne.
The production methods are
exactly the same as Champagne but
often using local grape varieties (Pinot Blanc in Alsace, Chenin Blanc
in Loire, not necessarily Chardonnay, Pinot Meunier or Pinot Noir
like in Champagne.
This year the Berkshire
Tasting Panel members chose
a Cremant as our first ever
“Celabratory Sparkler”. After
blind tasting over 25 Sparkling
wines, we eventually picked La
Maison du Cremant Cremant
de Bourgogne Brut (Chardonnay & Pinot Noir) to represent
our top value in sparkling wine
under $20 retail.
What exactly where we
looking for? Frankly….a Champagne
clone. This sparkling Brut stood head
and shoulder above the competition. On
the nose there were distinct aromas of
roasted nuts, baking bread and vanilla
bean. The palate was not the explosion of bubbles like in the rest of the
field, but a fine bead of persistent
bubbles delivering a lacy, delicate,
caressing creamy sensation.
The generous complexity of
flavors dazzles us, notes of lemon
meringue pie, cookie dough and
roasted nuts were inviting us back
for another sip. The finish was
longer than expected, especially
with a wine in this price range,
retaining the acid backbone
keeping this sparkler fresh and
exciting. Sparklers are not just
for toasts of special occasions,
they make a wonderful aperitif
with creamy brie, a fantastic
match to fresh seafood or even
dessert courses.
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1. Thistle & Mirth
44 West St, Pittsfield
413.344.4335
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looking for
some fun while out on the town, check out
the Gypsy Jive in Great Barrington. The latest effort from the folks at the Gypsy Joynt,
the Jive is part bar, part arcade, and all fun.
It sports two pool tables, an air hockey
table, Skeeball, a ping pong table and about
a dozen arcade machines with everything
from Marvel v. Capcom to Crusin World.
They boast a healthy beer selection with
across-the-beer spectrum with local favorites
Big Elm available as well as a full menu for
both restaurant quality meals, to tapas for
the late evening munchies.
If you have
$5 in your
pocket then
head over to
Thistle and
Mirth. They
always have
a wide selection of great draft beers on
tap for only five bucks. The whole place
just has the feel of the kind of place you
can do some real drinking, (think Moe’s
in Lee but with a full bar and that Pittsfield charm). In the first year the place
has been open it has quickly caught on
as a local beer drinkers’ haven and can
draw a pretty good crowd on a Friday or
Saturday night. The fact that it is a beer
joint that has a full bar means that you
can even bring along those none brew
drinkers in you crowd, a nice touch.
2. Michaels
2. Sideline Saloon
5 Elm St, Stockbridge
413.298.3530
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Moe’s Tavern receives in many seasonal
brews, making Moe’s one of the most
unique bars in Berkshire County.
Known for beer, Moe’s promises to keep the
tap list updated and encourages you to follow
Moe’s on your favorite social media outlet for
specials, events and tap list updates.
Show off
your pipes
with a night
of karaoke at
Michals in
Stockbridge.
With hundreds
of songs and artists to choose from you’ll
be sure to belt out hits from your favorite
artists at this incredibly entertaining spot in
the Berkshires. If singing isn’t your thing,
not to worry, Michaels has a fully stocked
bar with domestic and imported selections
including Berkshire Brewery on tap. When
it’s game time, watch your team on one
of their 4 HD TVs including a new 65” to
see every bone-crushing hit and mammoth
home run. Michaels also has a full lunch
and dinner menu for great dining and a late
night dining options.
3. Moe’s
25 Frank P Consolati Way, Lee
Moe’s Tavern
has been
recognized
by The New
York Times as
being an essential, downto-earth destination in the Berkshires.
434 Fenn St, Pittsfield
413.499.7337
It’s not every
day in America that a bar
boasts so
much about
winning a
bar soccer
league. The fact that Sideline does makes
me think these guys are like those crazy
English drunk fans you read about, and I
love it. I mean, they still proudly say that
the undefeated 2009 Sideline Saloonatics Men’s Soccer team is in the Summer
Soccer League’s regular season.
north county
1. PUBLIC
34 Holden St, North Adams
413.664.4444
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16 Depot Street
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`Eat
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New year,
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Breakfast
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these spots in 2015
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Red Apple Butchers brings
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organics co-op
Full Deli Board Menu
Fresh Soups & Salads
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Party Platters, Sandwich Trays & Catering
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J
ames Burden and Jazu Stine are
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As the co-owners and sole proprietors of Red Apple Butchers, a new noseto-tail butcher .........shop located in the
Berkshire Organics co-op market on Dalton
Division Road, the duo has taken upon
themselves the onerous task of reintroducing the somewhat antiquated, yet no less
rewarding, art to the local food community.
Operating on a unique supply-meetsdemand system, the butchery sources
pasture-raised animals from farms in Williamstown, Cummington, and New York
State, among others. Their featured products include cured meats, deli items, stocks
and rendered fats, as well as traditional cuts
of pork, beef, and poultry.
“It’s a constantly evolving thing,” said
Stine of their offerings. “It always changes.
There’s an ebb and flow to the system.”
Stine and Burden initially wanted to
source the entirety of their meat selection
from one farm when they opened up shop
in April of this year. That idea was quickly
crushed, but the variety of options from
local farmers proved lucrative moving
forward.
“For us, diversification has been awesome,” said Burden. “If we can get great
product from different farmers we can support more businesses that way.”
Burden moved to the area after spending some time on active duty in the U.S.
Coast Guard. He worked as a chef for various inns and restaurants and even ran the
kitchen at Pittsfield’s popular Mission Bar +
Tapas for a number of years.
“This is a great thing cause it allows
you to be an active member of the food
community without staying up until one in
the morning,” he said of the profession.
Stine graduated college with a degree
in sculpture and found himself cooking here
in the Berkshires after a brief artistic stint in
New York City.
The duo finalized the lease for the
shop in February after Brian and Aleisha
Gibbons, owners of Berkshire Organics,
reached out and encouraged them to join
their growing food movement.
“They saw an opportunity for this to
become not just another convenience store,”
said Burden of the co-op. “Being attached
to the grocer next door gets us traffic that’s
very positive for us. They already developed
a customer base that’s ready to go for good
food.”
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Red Apple Butchers owners James Burden, right, and Jazu Stine advocate for the natural food paradigm shift by supplying the
local community with pasture raised live stock in their butchery in the Berkshire Organics Co-op market in Dalton.
According to Burden, Red Apple Butchers caters to foodies and those who want to
eat local and clean with a low carbon footprint. Their grass-fed meats, typically found
in only specialty stores and farmers markets,
contain no hormones or antibiotics.
“Pasture-raised is inherently better. The
fat that a cow will produce from that type
of cuisine will be better for you by proxy of
eating it,” he said. “People end up saying
things like ‘that’s what pork used to taste
like when we were growing up.’”
The shop continues to see new customers daily, some traveling as far as Vermont
for things like sausage, short ribs, and beef
shanks. The duo even recently prepared 200
turkeys to meet their first-time Thanksgiving
orders.
“We can at least provide a light in the
dark for people that do care just so they have
options,” said Burden. “A lot of what we’re
doing is just bringing back old methods and
teaching people proper cooking again.”
Red Apple Butchers is open daily from
9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Butchers are available for
custom cuts Tuesday through Saturday. For
more information, call (413) 442-0888 or
visit www.redapplebutchers.com.
Bagel & Brew to undergo
major expansion in 2015
LENOX — The popular home of both
bagels and craft beer in town, Bagel &
Brew, will expand on the beer part of the
business this summer.
They will be taking over the recently
vacated space next door, that used to house
That’s A Wrap, for the new side of Brew.
Coming in the summer they will open an
outdoor brew garden and tavern menu that
will feature wings, burgers, salads and
more.
The current location will continue the
focus on breakfast and lunch, featuring their
bagels. The expanded bar and restaurant
will be on the backside of the same building
and will reopen the well-known outdoor
space behind it that has long been known as
one of the best outdoor dining locations in
central county.
Our Daily Bread joins space
in Gorham & Norton’s
GREAT BARRINGTON — The popular Chatham, N.Y. bakery Our Daily Bread
is coming to the Berkshires.
As of Jan. 16, the shop will fill the
space vacated by The Daily Bread Bakery
inside corner marketplace Gorham & Nortons on 278 Main Street.
The flagship location in Chatham
opened in offers homemade breads and
pastries as well as a sister site deli and cafe
also in the Columbia County town.
P.S. Italian Bistro opens
GREAT BARRINGTON — A new
Italian bistro will be filling the space at the
former Route 7 Grill on South Main Street
in Great Barrington.
In a post on the Route 7 Grill’s Facebook page, the restaurant announced the
launch of the P.S. Italian Bistro under the
direction of head chef Christophe Jalbert.
The bistro will feature handmade pastas and farm-to-table dishes.
The Preservation Society will remain
at the location which features a raw bar and
charchuterie selections as well as three and
five course meals.
The restaurant will be open for lunch
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week, and is closed closed on Tuesdays.
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Wheeler & Taylor
413-528-1006
413-298-3786
sheffield
$285,000
#00026
Wheeler & Taylor
413-528-1006
413-298-3786
becket
$82,000
#00183
Wheeler & Taylor
413-528-1006
413-298-3786
barnbrook realty
alford
$1,490,000
MLS #206252
Barnbrook Realty
413-528-4423
barnbrookrealty.com
new marlborough
$999,000
MLS #205404
Barnbrook Realty
413-528-4423
barnbrookrealty.com
stockbridge
$950,000
MLS #207267
Barnbrook Realty
413-528-4423
barnbrookrealty.com
wm. brockman real estate
Tyringham
$1,500,000
Colonial-era farm
Wm. Brockman Real Estate
413-528-4859
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new marlborough
$598,000
MLS #208698
Barnbrook Realty
413-528-4423
barnbrookrealty.com
monterey
$310,000
2008 private home
413-528-4859
great barrington
$729,000
Beautiful contemporary
413-528-4859
monterey
$275,000
Antique colonial
413-528-4859
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BEDDING & FURNITURE OUTLET
YEAR END
CLEARANCE SALE
QUEEN SETS
Starting At
299
$
RECLINERS
Starting At
239
$
5-PIECE DINING SETS
Starting At
399
$
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$
Purchase of $499 or more.
Limit 1 coupon per person.
Cannot be combined with any other offer.
Must be presented at time of sale.
Expires 1/31/2015.
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