Beep beep! Honk honk! Join us for a fun 3rd Thursday celebration and touch a truck!Kids (and adults) will be able to see, touch, interact with and learn about dozens of cool vehicles, including fire trucks and police cars, construction vehicles, airport vehicles and more.
There will also be live music from the Amy Ryan Band, The Hoping Machine, and students from the Rock On workshop, plus a tap dance performance at the Jacob's Pillow Dance Zoneand free yoga and Zumba in Park Square.
Mr. Finn's Cabaretat Barrington Stage Company welcomescelebrated singer/pianist Billy Stritch and his trio for an evening of music celebrating summertime and travel. The show, created just for this Pittsfield appearance, will include great songs such as "Come Fly With Me," "Summer Breeze," "The Summer Knows" and many other jazz standards and Brazilian Bossa Nova selections. 8 p.m. $45.
Children ages 6 and older can create their own painting of "Popsicle Pals" on a 16x20 canvas at Berkshire Paint & Sip. All painting materials, instruction, light snacks and non-alcoholic drinks are included in the $25 price. 1-3 p.m.
Join coaches Kent and Shiobbean Lemme atBerkshire Running Center foran introductory running workshop where you'll learn the tools to start a successful, safe and fun running program. Kent is the master of form and proper technique and Shiobbean will guide you to staying injury free and becoming more motivated than you ever thought you could be! 8-9:30 a.m. $20.
Falls Springs is a world premiere musical from BSC's acclaimed Musical Theatre Lab. The town of Fall Springs is cash-strapped but sits directly atop America's largest reserve of cosmetic essential oils. It has big dreams but at what cost? With new fracking techniques being recklessly implemented, the ground beneath town is crumbling. At the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage through August 31.
Celebrated cellist Yo-Yo Ma joins the Pittsfield community for a Day of Actionto discover the many ways culture connects people. Events include a mural project, tree planting, table building (invite only), live music, ice cream and a conversation with Ma and local cultural leaders and makers on the history of making in the Berkshires and its renewal and redefinition among the next generation, asking how making can build confidence, encourage resilience, and create a strong community. Most events are free and open to the public. 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
OLLI at Berkshire Community College presents Living Longer, Living Better: Changing the Culture of Aging, a day of learning with national and local trendsetters who are changing the culture of aging to improve the lives of all. The keynote speaker will be Ashton Applewhite, an anti-ageism advocate and author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism. 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
The Marquis de Wavrin: From the Manor to the Jungle tells the story of the Marquis Robert de Wavrin and his relationship with the indigenous people in South America during the early 20th century. A Belgian marquis who spent decades traveling, Wavrin visited areas that few Europeans had ever seen. He earned the trust of local groups while filming their customs, rituals and everyday life. Wavrin's footage is marked by an insistence on seeing indigenous people as fellow human beings - not savages or exotics trotted out for our entertainment. Co-director Grace Winter, a researcher at the Royal Film Archive of Belgium, reconstructs sequences from the archival footage for a contemporary audience.
Let's Go Pink is a cancer awareness exhibit that will be on view at the Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield throughout October, 2019. The opening reception will be Friday, Oct. 4 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. as part of that month's First Friday Artswalk. Twenty percent of sales will go to BTG PLAYS!, 15% to BMC Integrative Health Program's intuitive painting class for cancer patients, and the other 65% to the artist. Submissions accepted until Friday, Sept. 6. Artists will be notified of acceptance on or before Sept. 9. For more info, email the Let's Go Pink team: auntsessy1@gmail.com
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Dalton Man Accused of Kidnapping, Shooting Pittsfield Man
By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A Dalton man was arrested on Thursday evening after allegedly kidnapping and shooting another man.
Nicholas Lighten, 35, was arraigned in Central Berkshire District Court on Friday on multiple charges including kidnapping with a firearm and armed assault with intent to murder. He was booked in Dalton around 11:45 p.m. the previous night.
There was heavy police presence Thursday night in the area of Lighten's East Housatonic Street home before his arrest.
Shortly before 7 p.m., Dalton dispatch received a call from the Pittsfield Police Department requesting that an officer respond to Berkshire Medical Center. Adrian Mclaughlin of Pittsfield claimed that he was shot in the leg by Lighten after an altercation at the defendants home. Mclaughlin drove himself to the hospital and was treated and released with non-life-threatening injuries.
"We were told that Lighten told Adrian to go down to his basement, where he told Adrian to get down on his knees and pulled out a chain," the police report reads.
"We were told that throughout the struggle with Lighten, Adrian recalls three gunshots."
Dalton PD was advised that Pittsfield had swabbed Mclaughlin for DNA because he reported biting Lighten. A bite mark was later found on Lighten's shoulder.
Later that night, the victim reportedly was "certain, very certain" that Lighten was his assailant when shown a photo array at the hospital.
According to Dalton Police, an officer was stationed near Lighten's house in an unmarked vehicle and instructed to call over the radio if he left the residence. The Berkshire County Special Response Team was also contacted.
Lighten was under surveillance at his home from about 7:50 p.m. to about 8:40 p.m. when he left the property in a vehicle with Massachusetts plates. Another officer initiated a high-risk motor vehicle stop with the sergeant and response team just past Mill Street on West Housatonic Street, police said, and traffic was stopped on both sides of the road.
Lighten and a passenger were removed from the vehicle and detained. Police reported finding items including a brass knuckle knife, three shell casings wrapped in a rubber glove, and a pair of rubber gloves on him.
The response team entered Lighten's home at 43 East Housatonic before 9:30 p.m. for a protective sweep and cleared the residence before 9:50 p.m., police said. The residence was secured for crime scene investigators.
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