Letter: Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive

To the Editor:

The Board of Directors of the Al Nelson Friendship Center Food Pantry in North Adams wishes to thank the North Adams, Clarksburg and Florida Mountain community for their generation donations to the May 11 Letter Carrier Food Drive.

We received a total of 3,595 pounds of food and personal care items.

We equally want to thank our Letter Carriers who work out of the North Adams Post Office. They again went above and beyond in collecting the donations and bringing them to the collection and sorting site. They are always a pleasure to work with.

We also want to thank the Northern Berkshire United Way, the Northern Berkshire Community Coalition, and the Berkshire United Way for their support, as well all of the volunteers who helped on the day of the Food Drive.

Lois Daunis
North Adams, Mass. 

Daunis is the board president of the Friendship Center.

Greylock Thunder Successful in First Day of Home Event

iBerkshires.com Sports03:57PM / Saturday, July 11, 2026

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. – Avery Lane raced home on an error in the bottom of the sixth to give the Greylock Thunder 16-and-under travel softball team an 8-7 walkoff win over the Columbia County (N.Y.) Reds and a 2-0 record on the first day of the Summer Storm event at Alcombright Field.

 

The Thunder is welcoming in three other travel teams for a two-day round-robin event that concludes on Sunday afternoon.

 

Greylock won the first game, 4-3, over the Valley Storm of Greenfield.

 

It then trailed, 6-0, in the third inning of its second game against the Reds.

 

But the Thunder stormed back, eventually tying it with a four-run fifth and winning in a walkoff the next inning, the last allowed under the event’s time limit.

 

Lane started the winning rally by reaching on an infield error to lead off the inning.

 

Kendall Moran then sacrificed to move Lane over, but an error on the play allowed Moran to reach base and Lane to score the winning run.