Ames employees saw it coming

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Ames employees at the Berkshire Mall store say they saw it coming. Ames Department Stores announced yesterday that it would be closing all 327 stores in the chain. 34 of those stores are in Massachusetts with Ames stores at the Berkshire Mall in Lanesboro plus stores in Lenox and Great Barrington. An estimated 169 employees from all three Berkshire County stores will be out of work. The Connecticut-based retailer said yesterday that they would most likely use a liquidator to conduct "Going Out of Business" sales at all Ames stores. Ames was founded in 1958 by the Gilman Brothers. They built the company over a period of years by opening stores in small towns. They went public sometime in the early 60s and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1989, emerging from bankruptcy in 1990. For details of the Ames shutdown, click here
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Anderson Leads SteepleCats Past Danbury

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- Aedan Anderson went 3-for-4 with a home run and a double Friday to lead the North Adams SteepleCats to a 12-8 win over Danbury, Conn., Westerners in the New England Collegiate Baseball League.
 
The SteepleCats broke a 7-7 tie with a five-run seventh inning on the way to breaking a 13-game losing streak in front of their home fans at Joe Wolfe Field.
 
Monument Mountain's Jayder Raifstanger went 1-for-5 with a pair of RBIs, and Taconic's Sam Sherman also was 1-for-5 at the plate for North Adams.
 
Owen Fox earned the win on the mound with 2 and two-thirds innings of work in relief.
 
North Adams (13-26) travels to Holyoke on Saturday for a double-header against the Valley Blue Sox.
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