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High School Football
11-07-09 - Hoosac Valley beats Drury.
More photo's on Monday
Thursday, Nov. 06

Boys' Soccer: State Vocational Championship Game
McCann Tech 3, Keefe Tech 2

Girls' Soccer: State Vocational Championship Game
Blackstone Valley 8, McCann Tech 0
Fall Basketball Clinics

Election

Barrett Reflects on Accomplishments with Capital News 9
Alcombright's Victory Speech

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Trying to remember who won what and why? All the information is right here.

Daily Digest


This is Jake
He's been lost in Pittsfield for weeks but frequently sited. He was last seen heading toward the fire station on Peck's Road. He's tired, dirty and needs seizure medication. He's chipped. If you see him, call Julie at 413-537-5616, the vet 24/7 at 413-499-2820 or animal control at 413-448-9700.
How Much is Heating Oil this Week?
It's breaking $2.50 but still cheaper than gas.
Thanks to Gabriella Bond for sharing her memories of the Quincy Street house torn down last week.
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Obituaries

Alice R. Filiault, 87
Lucille Burt, 92
More obituaries
Mary M. Hanlon, 82
George F. Sarrouf, 73

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Bazaars

Nov. 7:

VNA & Hospice, Community Room, North Adams

North Adams Elks
10-4; Nov. 8, 9-2
Crafters, Chinese auction, bake sale
For vendor information, Melanie at 413-743-5562.

Nov. 14

Berkshire Community Church, Richmond
10-4; Crafters, bake sale. Contact Evelyn Goggia at 413-445-5747

Lanesborough Elementary School annual Fall Craft Fair from 10 to 4. Free admission, huge variety of arts and crafts, raffles, food and more. Proceeds go to sixth-grade trip to Cape Cod.

Vendors can contact Deb at 413-738-5349 or debhutton@aol.com or Lori at 413-499-0065 or lorittod@yahoo.com to secure a spot.

Dec. 12-13

North Adams Country Club, crafts 9-4; food from That's a Wrap from 11-2. Contact Sheryl Morehouse at 413-822-3329.

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North Adams Saw Businesses Come and Go Over Past Year

By Tammy Daniels
iBerkshires Staff
06:18AM / Wednesday, February 11, 2009

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The downtown has had quite a few changes over the past year, with several shops closing, a few relocating and even some new businesses opening.

The latest is a branch of investor group Edward Jones being operated by Ryley C. Gaudreau at 71 Main St. Gaudreau was approved for a special permit to operate a professional office from the Planning Board on Monday night.

Gaudreau had been operating out of the Edward Jones office in Berkshire Square in Adams; that office continues under Karen L. Kettles. According to the company's Web site, the Adams and North Adams locations are the only branches in Berkshire County; the next closest offices are in Bennington, Vt., and Greenfield.
 

Top: Mardi Gras beads are available at the Party Place on Eagle Street. Above, the former IO Gallery will house Edward Jones Investment; below, I Got Goodies at 85 Main St. and, bottom, Klipper Kingz opened on Eagle Street.
He will move next door to Jarvis Rockwell's work "Maya III" on Main Street, in the office space vacated by IO Digital Services and Gallery last fall. Owner Jason Morin Sr. had tried to combine his Internet business with the city's burgeoning art scene but wasn't able to make a go of it in that location despite several well-attended gallery openings. Morin is still busily working in the digital production field, however, and can be contacted through his Web site.

Dragonflii Clothing Co. owner Timothy Lanfair also called it quits recently after moving his clothing and accessory store from the Flat Iron Building on Eagle Street into a smaller space across the street.

Lanfair had had great hopes for the space but saw foot traffic drop off precipitously and closed abruptly.

A home accessory shop, A&M Decor, opened briefly last spring in the Flat Iron Building next to Dragonflii.

A children's clothing store, Kids ... Deals, also opened for only a few months in the L-Shaped Mall. We're not sure when exactly it closed, but it didn't make through the fall.

On a brighter note, several businesses have opened or expanded, including two shops bent on making their customers look their best. Pamela Bissaillon and Kim Oakes moved their Shear Madness salon from Adams to 81 Main St. in July; an old barbershop reopened as Klipper Kingz in November with three new tonsorial experts — Christopher Barton, Michael Stubbs and Corey Joiner.

Klipper Kingz is on Eagle Street in the former Norm's Barbershop, which operated at that location for 34 years. The new barbers say their shop's name comes from a desire to treat their customers like royalty.

Relocating to bigger quarters were I Got Goodies, which proprietor and candy maker Janice L. Esoldi had been operating out of Moulton's General Store. Esoldi moved into a vacant space at 85 Main St. last month. (We don't recall what was in there. Anybody?)

The Party Place moved into one of the two venerable bakers that have closed: Molly's Bakery (which closed last year) and Neville's Donuts. Now operated solely by Manna Mason, the Party Place moved into Molly's on Eagle Street in December. "It's a great location," said Mason, who added foot traffic has definitely picked up since the move from Ashland Street.

The Neville's building on North Eagle Street has space for four operations, including the newly moved-in Pooches dog grooming salon that had operated on Holden Street until last year.

Two restaurants went under but new ones have opened in the place. The Hub opened at 55 Main St. last spring in the former Milan at 55 (and long before that, the popular Capitol Restaurant) under owners Kate and Matthew Schilling.

Steeples in the Holiday Inn shuttered abruptly more than a year ago when financially overstretched owner Daniel Borer fell afoul of foreclosures. It recently reopened as the Richmond Grill under chef Drew Nicastro, owner of Isabella's.

Also new is the Elf Parlor, a coffeehouse just opened on Ashland Street across from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Townhouses; Label Shopper in the L-Shaped Mall (replacing Fashion Bug); the Registry of Motor Vehicles office in the former Roberts Co. building; TGL Photoworks on Holden Street; Christo's Famous Pizza (which replaced North Adams Pizza Co.), and the Alley, which opened in the former EGL (Gideon's Nightery) on Eagle Street.

No doubt we missed somebody in all this moving around. Oh yeah, Planet Fitness opened in the former Kmart building and Domino's in the former ... Domino's; and Berkshires Best closed. If we've bypassed a change in downtown business, let us know.
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We have had such a request of when we are going to reopen, and just an update, we are working with eric rudd to reopen in the flat iron,

you spoke we listened, woman and mens trendy clothing!
from: dragonfliion: 03-20-2009

Where is the pic with the Mardi Gras beads from?

Editor: The Party Place, the information is in the caption with the other photos.
from: wendyon: 02-11-2009

did not jaes inn reopen in 2008?...but i see a foreclosure notice in todays paper
from: local manon: 02-11-2009

Don't forget Shima on Main Street
from: Glennon: 02-11-2009

it's not downtown, but someone said Breda's reopened. is that true?
from: breda'son: 02-11-2009

Neville's Donuts closed about two years or more ago. Try a short-lived karate studio that took up residence in the former bakery before Pooches.
Editor: You're right. That was a slip on my part, thanks for catching it. Neville's closed in late 2005, but people are more likely to remember where it was than they would the karate place. Of course, I still refer to the "former Roberts Co. building" so maybe I'm just showing my age.
from: Nevilles????on: 02-11-2009



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