Tuesday, Dec. 12: Berkshires County Winter Storm Cancellations

Adams:
BART School: All After School Programs.

 

North Adams:
21st Century After School Programs.

Hockey: Drury at Chic Comp.

Girls Basketball: Drury at Monson.

N.A. youth basketball: There will be no Instructional, House Practices, Travel Practices or Games.

McCann: The girls basketball game, hockey game, swim meet and all after school activities have been cancelled for today.

Dalton:

Pittsfield:
Boys & Girls Club of the Berkshires closing at 5:30 today. Rink closed at 6pm. ALL basketball cancelled.

Boys Basketball game - Ludlow at PHS - have been postponed due to weather and transportation conditions.

PHS Swim Team Practice, as well as the Wahconah\PHS\Taconic Hockey Team Practice, have been cancelled.

Southern Berkshire Regional:
All after school activities; The Mt. Everett concert planned for tonight has been rescheduled to tomorrow evening, Wednesday, December 13th at 7:00 pm.
 

Williamstown:
Girls Basketball: Mount Greylock at Lee.

Mount Greylock: We just got word that all after school activities (practices etc.) have been cancelled for today.

Cost, Access to NBCTC High Among Concerns North Berkshire Residents

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff
06:15PM / Thursday, April 25, 2024

Adams Select Chair Christine Hoyt, NBCTC Executive Director David Fabiano and William Solomon, the attorney representing the four communities, talk after the session. 

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Public access channels should be supported and made more available to the public — and not be subject to a charge.

 

More than three dozen community members in-person and online attended the public hearing  Wednesday on public access and service from Spectrum/Charter Communications. The session at City Hall was held for residents in Adams, Cheshire, Clarksburg and North Adams to express their concerns to Spectrum ahead of another 10-year contract that starts in October.

 

Listening via Zoom but not speaking was Jennifer Young, director state government affairs at Charter.

 

One speaker after another conveyed how critical local access television is to the community and emphasized the need for affordable and reliable services, particularly for vulnerable populations like the elderly. 

 

"I don't know if everybody else feels the same way but they have a monopoly," said Clarksburg resident David Emery. "They control everything we do because there's nobody else to go to. You're stuck with with them."

 

Public access television, like the 30-year-old Northern Berkshire Community Television, is funded by cable television companies through franchise fees, member fees, grants and contributions.

 

Spectrum is the only cable provider in the region and while residents can shift to satellite providers or streaming, Northern Berkshire Community Television is not available on those alternatives and they may not be easy for some to navigate. For instance, the Spectrum app is available on smart televisions but it doesn't include PEG, the public, educational and governmental channels provided by NBCTC.