Rick Conety, an Albany-based stand-up comedian

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. - On Saturday, July 11th, the Redroom, Main Street Stage’s popular cabaret series will feature Rick Conety, an Albany-based stand-up comedian. Make your way to 57 Main Street, North Adams, for an evening of mingling, sketching, performance and surprises. Doors open at 8 PM for life drawing and light refreshment.

The locally written and produced show will start at 9.  Every Redroom is a new show and a great deal--$10.00 covers an entire night’s worth of entertainment. Contact Kelli at 413-664-7745 for more information, or find us on Facebook or the web (www.theredroomna.com). All Redrooms contain mature themes and language.

Rick Conety has performed at many locations in Northeast, New York and New York City, including performing at Saratoga's "First Night" New Year's Eve celebration and in front of college and club audiences. Tired of all the toilet humor that he heard at open mics, Rick decided to build his act around the funny things that happen in every day life. “When you find out your parents are getting a divorce after 35 years of marriage the same day you were told at work you won’t get that raise you’ve been expecting, and some jerk put a dent in your car while you were in the market, and on top of everything else, you’re coming down with a really nasty cold, you just have to laugh.” His website address is www.conetycomedy.com.

The Redroom was rated at 5 out of 5 by the Berkshire Eagle’s “Region After Dark.” It is an artists' playground where genre lines don’t matter. One audience member called it something you’d see in someone’s basement in Greenwich Village during the 1960’s. From 8-9 enjoy a glass of wine, mingle with the cast and other guests while a live model poses in the window. Bring your own art supplies or use the ones we provided. At 9, the variety show begins, full of readings, original skits and plays, improvisational rap, dance, local musicians and anything else we can get our hands on.

If you are interested in performing or having your work featured in The Redroom, please contact Kelli Newby at theredroomna@gmail.com.
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Sanford, Maine, Edges SteepleCats in Season Opener

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires.com Sports
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. – The SteepleCats Sunday started their 2026 season the way they ended their 2025 campaign: with a narrow loss to the Sanford Mainers.
 
Sanford, which won a best-of-three playoff series against North Adams last August, scored four runs on 14 hits to earn a 4-2 win at Joe Wolfe Field.
 
The Mainers broke a 1-1 tie with a two-run rally in the third inning, and four Sanford pitchers combined to collect 11 strikeouts as the visitors improved to 2-1 this summer.
 
North Adams, which saw its planned road opener rained out on Saturday, got to open the season in front of its home fans.
 
And those fans saw a strong performance from the North Adams pitching staff, which, despite allowing 14 hits, including five doubles, gave up just three earned runs.
 
“I like the grit,” SteepleCats coach Mike Gladu said of his team’s Game 1 performance. “I thought the pitchers performed pretty well. We had a couple of situations where we definitely should have gotten some runs in and didn’t get that hit.
 
“And there were a couple of plays with a little rust. Certainly, the ball that was hit over [Evan] Meier’s in left field, he just mistracked that one. And the extra run they scored in the eighth, the kid wasn’t going to go [from third on a fly ball], we made a throw and nobody could stop it.
 
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