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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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Clarksburg Gets 3 Years of Free Cash Certified

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff
CLARKSBURG, Mass. — Town officials have heaved a sigh of relief with the state's certification of free cash for the first time in more than three years.
 
The town's parade of employees through its financial offices the past few years put it behind on closing out its fiscal years between 2021 and 2023. A new treasurer and two part-time accountants have been working the past year in closing the books and filing with the state.
 
The result is the town will have $571,000 in free cash on hand as it begins budget deliberations. However, town meeting last year voted that any free cash be used to replenish the stabilization account
 
Some $231,000 in stabilization was used last year to reduce the tax rate — draining the account. The town's had minimal reserves for the past nine months.
 
Chairman Robert Norcross said he didn't want residents to think the town was suddenly flush with cash. 
 
"We have to keep in mind that we have no money in the stabilization fund and we now have a free cash, so we have now got to replenish that account," he said. "So it's not like we have this money to spend ... most of it will go into the stabilization fund." 
 
The account's been hit several times over the past few fiscal years in place of free cash, which has normally been used for capital spending, to offset the budget and to refill stabilization. Free cash was last used in fiscal 2020.
 
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