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Berkshire Bank Benefits Northern Berkshire Youth Hockey

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. – The Northern Berkshire Youth Hockey League is excited to accept a Hockey Suite event hosted by  Berkshire Bank through which the Bantam team will receive a game day experience in Boston. 
 
The Northern Berkshire Youth Hockey League supports and nurtures hockey for boys and girls ages 4 through high school in Northern Berkshire County and Southern Vermont. The main objective of the league is to provide students with the best available instruction to teach the game of ice hockey, establish core values of USA Hockey and stress the significance of physical fitness.
 
The team the bank will host for this event is the Bantam team, which includes girls and boys ranging in age from 13 to 15. They will receive transportation to and from the April 1 game as well as the opportunity to watch the hockey game from the Berkshire Bank suite in Boston's TD Garden.    
 
“This is such an incredible experience for these kids to have the opportunity to see their beloved sport on such a grand scale,” said Lisa Lescarbeau, NBYHL Board President. “Thanks to Berkshire Bank, the Bantam team will get to see the Bruins play, a chance that they would not have had otherwise.”
 
Since 1969, the Northern Berkshire Youth Hockey League has provided a safe, fun environment for youth to learn and play the sport of ice hockey. House and travel programs, including Learn to Skate and Learn to Play, are offered for children ages 4 to 17 in Berkshire County and bordering cities and towns in Vermont and New York.
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North Adams Property Owners to See Tax Rates Fall, Bills Rise

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The City Council on Tuesday voted to maintain the split tax shift, resulting in a drop in the residential and commercial tax rates. 
 
However, higher property values also mean about a $222 higher tax bill.
 
The vote was unanimous with Councilor Deanna Morrow absent. 
 
Mayor Jennifer Macksey recommended keeping a 1.715 shift to the commercial side, the same as last year. This sets the residential rate at $16.71 per $1,000 property valuation, down 43 cents, and the commercial/industrial to $35.22, down $1.12.
 
This is the lowest property tax rate since 2015, when it was $16.69.
 
"My job as the assessor is to assess based on full and fair cash value in an open market, willing buyer, willing seller, arms-length sales," said City Assessor Jessica Lincourt. "So every year, I have to do a sales analysis of everything that comes in."
 
All that documentation also has to be reviewed by the state Department of Revenue. 
 
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