PITTSFIELD, Mass. – The Berkshire Boys and Girls Club AAU boys sixth-grade basketball team is coming off a successful summer season in which it won five tournament championships throughout New England and Upstate New York.
The team includes players from the Pittsfield and Dalton area.
It won five tournaments in its own age group and went 1-2 in a seventh-/eighth-grade division, beating a team of seventh-graders from Connecticut.
The team’s greatest feat was defeating squads from Boston, Connecticut and Brooklyn, N.Y., to win its final tournament of the season, the BasketBull Summer Tip-Off.
Coach Michael Balcom credits the success of the program to the support of the staff at the Club and “Basketball Mom” Jackie B.
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Berkshire Democrats Host Candidate Forum Friday
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire County Democratic town committees and political action groups will sponsor a countywide Democratic candidates forum this Friday, April 10.
The forum will be held at 7 p.m. in the Common Room at Zion Lutheran Church located at 74 First St.
The event will feature elected state and federal officials, especially those running for seats in the 2026 election. Challengers for those seats will also address attendees.
Working in coalition with the Berkshire Democratic Brigades, Berkshire Indivisible, Greylock Together, Indivisible Berkshires, and the Rural Freedom Network, the Democratic town committees of Adams, Dalton, Great Barrington, Sheffield, and Stockbridge anticipate that this event will educate voters about candidates' positions on political issues.
In addition, the forum will give voters the opportunity to network and to meet candidates and discuss legislation that will improve Berkshire County's economy, promote environmental justice, and reduce economic disparity in the region.
Candidates committed to attend include District Attorney Timothy Shugrue, 1st Mass congressional candidate Jeromie Whalen, U.S. Senate candidate Alex Rikleen, and 1st Berkshire representative candidate Andrew Fitch.
Also speaking will be representatives from the campaigns for Edward Markey for U.S. Senate and for Maural Healey and Kim Driscoll for governor and lieutenant governor, respectively.
