PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A man was struck and killed by a westbound freight train on the railroad tracks near The Big Y Supermarket in Pittsfield.
The incident occurred on March 12, 2025, at approximately 6:22 pm.
Two men were observed walking westbound on the tracks as the train approached. The train operator attempted to warn them with the train's horn. One man avoided the collision, but the other was struck and sustained life-threatening injuries. He was transported to BMC by Action Ambulance, where he later died.
The deceased's name is being withheld until family notifications are complete. The second individual left the scene before emergency responders arrived and has not been identified.
The Pittsfield Police Department, Pittsfield Fire Department, and Action Ambulance responded to the scene.
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Tina Packer, Founder of Shakespeare & Company, Dies at 87
Staff Reports
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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