image description — Front row, from left: Harolyn Castillo, Bre’Jai Ellerbee and Alivia Mauer. Back row: coach Bryant Mauer, Charlie Keator, Tora Thoresen, Madi McCarthy, Madison Stetz, Kyana Summers and coach Kristy Conyers. Team members not pictured: Jasmine Small, Anna Doyle, Caroline Sherman, Dezerea Powell, Claire O’Brien, Chloe Parsenios, Jaelyn Walker and Caprese Conyers.

Berkshire Reign Basketball Team Undefeated

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- The Berkshire Reign travel basketball team has competed in five tournaments this fall with their most recent win at the Zero Gravity Grand Opener in Albany on Oct. 23 and 24.

The team remain undefeated. Berkshire Reign Basketball was created to allow local youth basketball players the opportunity to continue to play competitive basketball throughout the summer and fall and is managed and coached by Bryant Mauer and Kristy Conyers.

Berkshire Reign would like to thank John Felix of Northern Oak Tree Service for sponsoring uniforms for the team. For further information or interest in being a sponsor, please contact Berkshire Reign at berkshire.reign@gmail.com.

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Pittsfield Seeks CPA Funds for Bike Racks, AED

By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff
07:17PM / Sunday, October 25, 2026

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The city plans to apply for Community Preservation Act funds for park bike racks and an AED machine at the pickleball fields.

On Tuesday, the Parks Commission endorsed Pittsfield’s applications for CPA funds.

"Both of those projects are certainly, relative to CPA funds, low cost but high benefit," Commissioner Anthony DeMartino said.

Through CPA, bike racks are proposed for a few city parks, and the Berkshire Mountain Pickleball league is looking to place an automatic external defibrillator at the Benedict Avenue pickleball fields.

Parks, Open Space, and Natural Resources Manager James McGrath and Recreation & Special Events Coordinator Jennifer VanBramer presented the two small project applications, which will go through an eligibility period before full consideration in the spring of 2027.

During the city’s free, six-week, summer playground program, it was observed that many kids access parks by bicycle. The plan is to buy between six and eight racks to be placed at Durant Park, the Common, and Clapp Park; other parks are being considered as well.

McGrath explained that the three parks hosting the playground program don’t have bike racks, and they wind up on the ground and sometimes become a distraction.

"The ancillary benefit to having bike racks is that it encourages that mode of transportation for folks that want to come to the park on their bike," he said.

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