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Severe T-Storms, Damaging Winds Moving Through Berkshires

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After two nights of frost, it was 61 degrees on Main Street in North Adams on Thursday night. 
 
You think, ahhh, spring has finally arrived! Warm evenings, buds popping, birds chirping. 
 
Well, the weather is never easy in the Berkshires. Yet another storm front will batter the region with torrential rain and damaging winds — but it will be warmer!
 
The National Weather Service in Albany, N.Y., is forecasting severe thunderstorms capable of damaging winds and hail Friday afternoon and the possibility of an isolated tornado. 
 
There will be scattered thunderstorms moving across the region between 1 and 5 and a much stronger line of storms that will cross the Berkshires during the evening until about 10 p.m.
 
"Thunderstorms will erupt Friday afternoon ahead of a cold front across parts of Ohio, northwestern Pennsylvania and upstate New York then charge east and southeastward into portions of New England, the lower Hudson Valley and central and eastern Pennsylvania into the early evening hours," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Joe Lundberg said.
 
"The warmth and humidity that will help to fuel these strong storms will come just a day and half after widespread frost and even some freezes in parts of the interior Northeast."
 
This severe storm blast will be followed by plenty of sunshine this weekend and temperatures in the 70s in the region and higher to the south. Get out and about — but not too close — because another storm system will hit the region on Sunday night because another low pressure system will be parking itself over the region and bringing plenty of rain, especially in central and South Berkshire. 
 
"A key difference to this pattern from the pattern we're just exiting is that nighttime lows will be much warmer," said Lundberg. "It's not an Arctic air mass but rather a large pocket of cool and moist air, so frosts and freezes will not be a returning concern."
 
Lundberg says the weather conditions will improve toward Memorial Day weekend, the "unofficial start of summer," with warmer air and sunshine.

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North Adams Pub, Bowling Alley Have New Names, New Owners

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The owners of Water Street Grill in Williamstown have expanded east by opening The Greatest of All Time (The GOAT) Sports Bar and Grill, now open seven days a week in the former Mingo's.
 
Eric and Hannah Reinhard, motivated by the new name, want to make the much-loved sports bar and bowling alley, now dubbed "Kingpins Bowling and Golf," the greatest it can be. 
 
"The GOAT is the greatest of all time. It's like an homage to the great athletes in every sport," Eric said. "Our logo is to be great, motivate yourself. It is a sports bar theme, but it is also a family place."
 
The Reinhards are steeped in the restaurant business in Berkshire County. Eric was an owner of the Freight Yard Pub from 1992 to 2000, opened Water Street Grill in 1996 and, before that, ran hotels, restaurants and a consulting company in New York, Massachusetts and the state of Florida. Hannah has more than 20 years of restaurant management experience. 
 
They purchased the entire property, including Greylock Bowl & Golf, in August from Osmin and Monica Alvarez, who've owned it since 2012. 
 
Eric said they were motivated after hearing the property was for sale.
 
The Reinhards stressed that they wanted to continue with the Alverez family's goal of ensuring the property continued as a bowling alley and family fun center for families to enjoy for years to come.
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