PITTSFIELD - Elliott Adams, national president of Veterans for Peace, will speak at Berkshire Community College. His talk will take place Thursday, Oct. 18, at 12:15 and again at 7:30 in the small auditorium, Room K-111, of the Koussevitzky Arts Center.
Adams served as paratrooper in the infantry in Vietnam, Japan, Korea and Alaska. He served his community of Sharon Springs, N.Y., as president of the school board, mayor, committee chairman of Explorers Post 17, Rotary president and master of the Masonic Lodge. He left politics to become an activist and attended many demonstrations. He worked for United For Peace and Justice and War Resisters League, School of Americans Watch, Peace Has No Borders and other organizations at events across the country.
Adams is a nonviolent training coordinator for Veterans For Peace and the Fellowship of Reconciliation, serving on its CCP Leadership Team. He has done nonviolence and social movement training for the School of Americas Watch, Peacemakers of Schoharie (N.Y.), Student Environmental Action, War Resistors League and other groups.
Adams will share his insights in regard to turning away from war toward a world where conflicts are resolved without violence. He will answer questions from the audience.
The evening presentation is sponsored by the Global Issues Resource Organization. Both presentations are free and open to the public.
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Bianchi-Barbarotta Foundation Holds Awards Banquet
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PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- The Bianchi-Barbarotta Foundation Friday honored outstanding contributors to the Berkshire County sports scene at its third annual Awards Dinner at the Polish Falcon Club.
The foundation supports youth sports throughout the county each year.
In 2025-26, those donations totaled more than $30,000 to groups ranging from youth football and cheerleading programs, Pittsfield Little League, Northern Berkshire Softball and the Pittsfield Boys and Girls Club Recreation Therapy Program, to name a few.
Funds raised by the foundation also go to support its annual Vera Barborotta Memorial Sportsman Scholarship, which this year went to Lee High School graduate Joey Abderhalden and Taconic grad Madeline Harrington.
Two other recently graduated high school standout athletes were recognized as winners of the Al Bianchi Memorial Athletes of the Year: Madison McCarthy and Cooper Calvert, both of Wahconah Regional High School.
Pittsfield High School girls basketball coach Kristy Conyers and Hoosac Valley boys basketball coach Matt Larabee received the foundation's Coach of the Year Awards.
John Castonguay received the Bianchi-Barbarotta Foundation Living Legend Award. A.J. Ziter took home the Connie Bianchi Memorial Award of Merit. And Mark Moulton rounded out the honorees with the foundation's Volunteer of the Year Award.
Cassidy Flynn scattered five hits in a complete-game effort in the circle as Lenox upset top-seeded Hoosac Valley, 3-2, in the quarter-finals of the Division 5 State Tournament. click for more
Brayden Durant struck out seven and walked one in a complete-game effort on the mound Saturday to pitch the Drury baseball team to a 6-0 win over Keefe Tech in the quarter-finals of the Division 5 State Tournament at Joe Wolfe Field. click for more
Jason Codey struck out 13, walked two and allowed just an infield single as the Generals earned a 7-1 win over Wahconah to claim their third straight regional title. click for more
Gracelyn Wright struck out eight, and Genevieve Lagess went 3-for-5 with four runs batted in as the Hurricanes beat Monson, 17-3, to claim their first Western Mass title in four years. click for more
For the boys, Ward Bianchi helped lead the way with a win in the shot put and a second place in the javelin as the Mounties finished 16 points ahead of runner-up Pittsfield (pending the results of the pole vault, which were unavailable at 11 p.m. Friday night). click for more
