Two Car, Tractor Trailer Collision Closes South Street in Pittsfield

Staff Reports 08:27AM / Monday, March 20, 2023Print Story | Email Story

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A two-car accident involving a tractor-trailer truck left two with minor injuries

On March 18, at approximately 12:44 p.m., the Pittsfield Police Dept., Pittsfield Fire Dept., and County Ambulance responded to the area of 639 South St for a motor vehicle vs tractor-trailer crash.

A 2018 Toyota Rav 4 operated by a. Demitryia Sweener of Pittsfield, was traveling southbound on South St when she lost control of her vehicle. The vehicle entered into the left southbound lane where it struck a 2022 Honda HR-V operated by Robert Wilcox of Pittsfield, before crossing into the northbound lane and colliding with a 2018 Kenilworth tractor- trailer.

This vehicle was operated by Joseph Rondeau of North Adams.

The collision caused extensive damage to all vehicles involved as well as a significant spill of diesel fuel onto the roadway.

As a result of this collision and subsequent spill, South St was shut down from Dan Fox Dr to South Mountain Rd from 12:44 p.m. until 6:00 p.m. for the removal of vehicles and clean-up of the fuel spill.

Sweener and Wilcox were transported to BMC for non-life threatening injuries. This incident remains under investigation by Officer Hallas of the Pittsfield Police Dept. Traffic Unit.

Any witnesses are asked to contact Officer Hallas at 413- 448-9700 ext. 560.

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John Rubinstein on 'Eisenhower,' Trump, Fosse, Sondheim & Williamstown Theatre Festival

By Alan PetrucelliSpecial to iBerkshires
12:10PM / Thursday, September 17, 2026

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — It's a rainy Saturday afternoon in Columbus, Ohio, and John Rubinstein is driving to the Berkshires. He left his Los Angeles home a few days ago, and his next stop is Cleveland. Once he gets to Pittsfield, he readies for his return appearance as Dwight D. Eisenhower in "Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground," a one-man show Rubinstein first did at the Barrington Stage Company last summer.

The show has been brought back by rave reviews and popular demand; it opens Sept. 16 and runs through Sept. 26.

Rubinstein, who turns 80 in December, has been crisscrossing the country, doing the show for the past four years: "I can't wait to do it again and again and again," he said. "It's one of the great crowning pieces of luck of my career."

And what a career: "Crazy Like a Fox," "Family," numerous Broadway plays and musicals and TV movies and feature films and two Tony awards for "Pippin" (1972) and "Children of a Lesser God" (1980). A surprise many fans don't know: Rubinstein has scored the music to several films and TV shows, including "Jeremiah Johnson," "The Candidate," "The Dollmaker" and "China Beach."

During an exclusive interview over a 75-minute phone call, Rubinstein talks about liking Ike and loving "Eisenhower," as well as Donald Trump, Stephen Sondheim, Bob Fosse and the Williamstown Theatre Festival.

How did you hook up with 'Eisenhower?'

Director Peter Ellenstein sent me an email that said, "I have a play about Eisenhower, and I'd like to send it to you to consider." I read it. It was 40 pages long and single-spaced, one guy talking. I thought. "Jesus Christ, I don't know if anybody's gonna want to hear that, a two-hour monologue." But I liked it. I respected it. I found it fascinating but (a) I wasn't sure it would work as a play, (b) if I could memorize it and (c) if I could memorize it and it was a good play would anyone want to go see it? So I didn't commit myself at first. But Peter said, "Why don't you come and meet with me and the playwright, Richard Hellesson, and read the play out loud?"

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