image description — The hotel would sell bottles and cans for consumption within the hotel.

North Adams Hotel Approved for Alcohol License

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff
08:47AM / Thursday, November 16, 2023Print Story | Email Story

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The License Commission on Tuesday approved Hotel Downstreet for an all-alcohol license.

Innkeeper Tyler Carroll, representing NA Hotel LLC, said the hotel would sell bottles and cans for consumption within the hotel.

"What we're going be doing is retail down below, which will be sold as a whole bottle of wine or premixed cocktail, the idea would be to serve those type of items," he said. "And then the only time we would be pouring a glass would be in the banquet space, which would be controlled by a staff member."

Although the license would cover hard alcohol, Carroll said the hotel would not be selling that at this time. The goal for now is wine and canned drinks such as the popular hard seltzers.

"We wouldn't be sending a bottle of Jack Daniels upstairs for sale," he said.

The license is specific to the hotel and does not include the restaurant, which is operated by a separate entity.

The commission also approved a one-day license to serve beer and wine for an event in the hotel's Studios B and C. The event, which will feature Jarvis Rockwell, runs from 5 to 7 on Thursday.

Another application for a one-day license by 413 Bistro, the restaurant located in the hotel, was continued as no one was there to speak the request.

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Memorial Day a Time for 'Acknowledging Cost of Peace'

By Tammy Daniels iBerkshires Staff
12:02PM / Sunday, May 25, 2025

Abby Beer, Ciera Crockwell and Dakota Hurlbut read The Gettysburg Address. See more photos here.

CLARKSBURG, Mass. — As the county remembers its fallen over the past 250 years, Kurtis Durocher reminded the gathering at Town Hall that Memorial Day isn't about glorifying war.

"It is about acknowledging the cost of peace," said town's veterans agent. "The sacrifice of life for liberty is profound, and it depends or it demands more from us than parades or ceremonies. It asks for our vigilance in protecting the freedoms they died for. It asks us to care for their fellow veterans, to support their families and to build a country worthy of their sacrifice."

Clarksburg and Lanesborough held their ceremonies on Sunday.

Durocher is a retired, decorated Army master sergeant with multiple deployments including Iraq and Afghanistan. He was named as the regional veterans service officer earlier this year in North Adams and serves nearly a dozen North County towns.

He said the stories of those who were lost "are etched into the very soil of our community here in Northern Berkshire ... They are not statistics. They are our family."

"Let us also remember the Gold Star families, those who bear the weight of personal loss every single day we see you, we honor you, and we thank you for the unimaginable price your loved ones paid," Durocher continued. "So let us lower our heads, not in despair, but in gratitude. Let us speak their names, tell their stories and preserve their memory, because a hero remembered never truly dies."

The ceremony at Clarksburg included selections from the Drury High School band, an honor guard made up of the Clarksburg Volunteer Fire Departments and remarks from master of ceremonies Joseph Bushika of Peter A. Cook Post 9144 Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Town Administrator Ronald Boucher. Laurie Boudreau sang "God Bless America" and "American the Beautiful."

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