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The Newspaper & Press Association’s 2024 Better Newspaper Competition is New England’s largest and most comprehensive journalism contest. The Eagle’s General Excellence award was a measure of all aspects of

The new concolor will grow — and hopefully thrive — in the same park where the Old Elm once lived, which I think is beautifully poetic. If its taken care

If you missed Fred Rutberg’s column last weekend, The Berkshire Eagle’s annual Local Journalism Fund campaign is underway.

The musical trappings of religion and royalty have long coexisted to support their mythmaking. Kings and queens, popes and emperors have long engaged composers in the expensive, collaborative pursuit of

NORTH ADAMS — Like many, I admit I have an addictive personality. I love sweets, spirits and other riches that are fine in moderation but easy to overdo. I wish

Every few months, you see the headlines: Mega Millions rises to record level … billion-dollar jackpot to be drawn … no winner this week, sum to increase … person from

As new coronavirus variants dominate COVID-19 cases in Chicago, researchers said they were able to detect the presence of the omicron BA.2 subvariant two weeks before it showed up in an individual clinical COVID test by using tampons planted in sewers around the city.

Beyond covering menstrual needs, tampons have been famously used to stop nosebleeds and dress emergency wounds. Now, they are being used to test sewage for COVID-19.

The Berkshire Eagle won 43 awards — including General Excellence — in the 2021 New England Newspaper & Press Association’s Better Newspaper Competition.