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Steve Decker cleans up in front of BankNorth on Wednesday.
More Snow

The Berkshires received several inches of snow this morning, but not enough to close schools, unlike yesterday's sleety mess. Temperatures will drop into the 20s this afternoon. A few more snow showers are expected through the weekend.
Duff'em If You've Got'em
North Adams Regional Hospital went smoke-free Monday — so did all its sister sites, from Sweet Brook to Northern Berkshire Family Practice to the Women's Exchange. No ashtrays, no smoking: No butts about it.

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MassWildlife's annual eagle count runs Dec. 31 to Jan. 14. Anyone sighting one of the regal birds in Massachusetts is asked to participate.

Send date, time, location and town of eagle sightings, number of birds, whether juvenile or adult and observer's contact information to Mass.wildlife@state.ma.us.
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Writer Diaz to Read at Williams

- March 10, 2008

WILLIAMSTOWN - Award-winning Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz will discuss and read from his work on Wednesday, March 12, at 8 p.m. in Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall at Williams College.

His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, which has called him one of the 20 top writers for the 21st century. He has also been published in Story, The Paris Review and in the anthologies "Best American Short Stories" and "African Voices." His short story collection, "Drown" (1996) and the novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" (2007) have been published to critical acclaim. Miramax has bought the rights for a film adaptation of the novel, which was awarded the 2007 John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize and was selected by Time and New York Magazine as the best novel of 2007. The book was recently short-listed for a National Book Critics Circle award.

Central to Diaz's work is the duality of the immigrant experience. He is active in the Dominican community, teaches creative writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is the fiction editor for the Boston Review. He is a founding member of the Voices of Writing Workshop, which focused on writers of color.

Born in Villa Juana, a barrio in Santo Domingo, Daz moved to the U.S. with his parents when he was 6, settling in New Jersey. He received his bachelor's degree from Rutgers College in 1992 and his master of fine arts from Cornell University in 1995.
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