Pittsfield Nomination Papers Available in April

08:05AM / Thursday, March 13, 2025Print Story | Email Story

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Nomination papers for elected offices in Pittsfield will be available on Wednesday, April 2.

Offices on the 2025 municipal election ballot will be one city clerk, four councilors at large, seven ward councilors and six seats on the School Committee.

Nominations papers require 150 signatures from registered Pittsfield voters are required for city clerk, councilor at large and School Committee. Candidates for ward councilor need 50 signatures of registered voters within the ward they running in.

The term of office for each elected position is two years beginning on Jan. 5, 2026.

Candidates seeking to run for office can pick up their nomination papers from the City Clerk's Office located at 70 Allen St. starting on April 2 at 8:30 a.m. Completed nomination papers must be submitted to the Registrar of Voters' Office for certification by Friday, July 18, no later than 4 p.m. Certified papers must then be submitted to the City Clerk's Office by Friday, Aug. 1, no later than 5 p.m. to be eligible for the ballot.

The preliminary election, if necessary, is scheduled for Sept. 16 and the general election is scheduled for Nov. 4.

For more information, contact the City Clerk's Office at 413-499-9361.

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Tina Packer, Founder of Shakespeare & Company, Dies at 87

Staff Reports 06:51PM / Saturday, January 10, 2026

LENOX, Mass. — The doyenne of Shakespeare's plays, Tina Packer, died Friday at the age of 87.

Shakespeare & Company, which Packer co-founded in 1978, made the announcement Saturday on its Facebook page.

"It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Tina Packer, Shakespeare & Company's founding artistic director and acclaimed director, actor, writer, and teacher," the company said on its post and in a press release.

Packer, who retired a the theater company's artistic director in 2009, had directed all of Shakespeare's plays, some several times, acted in eight of them, and taught the whole canon at more than 30 colleges, including Harvard. She continued to direct, teach, and advocate for the company until her passing.

At Columbia University, she taught in the master of business administration program for four years, resulting in the publication of "Power Plays: Shakespeare's Lessons in Leadership and Management with Deming Professor John Whitney" for Simon and Schuster. For Scholastic, she wrote "Tales from Shakespeare," a children's book and recipient of the Parent's Gold Medal Award.

Most recently her book "Women of Will" was published by Knopf and she had been performing "Women of Will" with Nigel Gore, in New York, Mexico, England, The Hague, China, and across the United States. She's the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees, including the Commonwealth Award.

"Our hearts are heavy with the passing of Tina Packer, a fiery force of nature with an indomitable spirit," said Artistic Director Allyn Burrows. "Tina affected everyone she encountered with her warmth, generosity, wit, and insatiable curiosity. She delighted in people's stories, and reached into their hearts with tender humanity. The world was her stage, and she furthered the Berkshires as a destination for the imagination.

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