Berkshire Living announces business quarterly magazine to debut Fall 07

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In October 2007, the region will see the introduction of BBQ: Berkshire Business Quarterly, a new, full-color glossy magazine produced by the same team that introduced the award-winning Berkshire Living to the area two-and-a-half years ago. In an announcement before a breakfast meeting of the Berkshire Chamber of Commerce this morning, publisher Michael Zivyak, who launched Berkshire Living in November 2004, said the timing was right for the addition of a high-quality, business lifestyle magazine that will showcase and support the burgeoning business climate in the Berkshires. â€œBBQ was cooked-up, much like Berkshire Living, out of a dearth of high-quality, feature-oriented business journalism in the region,â€ said Zivyak, who pointed out that many general-interest regional magazines around the nation have embarked on similar business-oriented publishing ventures in the last few years. â€œWe view BBQ as an Inc. or Fortune magazine for the Berkshiresâ€”something we believe will be another great addition to the region.â€ Zivyak announced that Seth Rogovoy would assume the role of editor-in-chief of BBQ while retaining his duties as editor-in-chief of Berkshire Living. â€œI canâ€™t think of anyone Iâ€™d rather have at the helm of this launch than Seth, whose magazine-editing skills are incontrovertible, and whose work at Berkshire Living has already garnered us two National City and Regional Magazine Association awards for general excellence in two short years.â€ For his part, Rogovoy said he looked forward to the challenge of creating a new forum for profiling the efforts of those who have found ways to succeed in business while living in the Berkshires. â€œBBQ will shine a light on those people and businesses whose practices mesh seamlessly with life in the Berkshires, reflecting Berkshire values such as stewardship and sustainability, while at the same time successfully competing in the commercial marketplace.â€ Rogovoy added that all articles in BBQ will boast â€œtakeaway,â€ lessons shared from otherâ€™s experiences as well as useful information that can be applied to the largest companies as well as to the smallest neighborhood moms and pops. Also joining the BBQ team is Berkshire Living creative director Laura Morris, formerly the award-winning creative director of Business 2.0 Magazine. BBQ will premiere in the fourth quarter of this year, featuring stories drawn from the regionâ€™s retail, financial, education, publishing, marketing, medical/health, legal, culture, manufacturing, and hospitality sectors. The magazine, geared to C-level officers, small business owners, and general readers interested in the business scene, will boast regular guest columnists, survey the latest in productivity tools, and forecast trendsâ€”all with the same high standards of narrative writing, beautiful photography, and state-of-the-art design familiar to readers of Berkshire Living. Like Berkshire Living, BBQ is one of the few remaining independent, locally owned press outlets in the region. BBQ will be directly mailed to a circulation of 12,000 highly qualified business-minded individuals; business owners, presidents, and CEOs in the greater Berkshire region; a list of national site-selectors; a list of the best corporate prospects of the Berkshire Economic Development Corporation; and every member of the Massachusetts legislature; as well as be available for sale on regional newsstands.

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Summer Wrapping Up for Pittsfield, Berkshire Students

By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff
05:19PM / Sunday, August 23, 2026

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Students in Pittsfield and beyond are enjoying their last days of summer before classes begin.

Most Berkshire County teachers return to work this month, and students follow in late August and early September.

For Pittsfield Public Schools, staff returns on Aug. 26 and students' first day is Aug. 31; pre-kindergarten and kindergarten begin school on Sept. 2.

Labor Day is on Monday, Sept. 7.

"The summer is pretty much done, and we will be ready and excited to open the doors in about two and a half weeks,” Superintendent Latifah Phillips told the School Committee on Wednesday.

Phillips is returning this year as the permanent superintendent. She was appointed the interim superintendent last spring, and the School Committee voted to hire her permanently in June.

This year also brings the middle school restructuring, moving fifth grade to the middle school level, and the retirement of Morningside Community School.

Welcome night for Reid Middle School students new to the building is on Aug. 18 at 6 p.m.; Herberg will have a sixth-grade welcome night at 5:30 p.m. on Aug. 25, and at the same time on Aug. 26 for fifth grade.

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