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Winter seems to have awakened with the New Year, as Berkshire County has garnered its first substantial snowfall of the season. Having grown up in Windsor before moving to Pittsfield,

Who was that fellow running down this lonesome stretch of road? Haven’t I seen him before, in Windsor, perhaps, during a snowstorm? Or was it in Savoy, when he emerged

Time To Dance went wire-to-wire to capture the $8,000 Kelti Burnett Memorial Pace on Friday (Aug. 5) at Woodstock Raceway in New Brunswick.

Gary Meyer runs Friendly Fred’s Truck Stop in Gilman, roughly 20 miles from Indiana. As fuel prices and taxes rise, business owners such as Meyer are especially feeling the effects. “As a gas station and truck stop owne...

Illinois’ record-high fuel prices mean consumers pay more for everyday items. Pritzker’s 2019 doubling of gas, diesel, and natural gas taxes are partly to blame.

In Windsor, celebrations continue to mark the towns 250th anniversary. On Sunday, the town’s Fall Festival runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and will be held rain or shine

Article content When Fred Hume passed away on Feb. 17, 1967, The Vancouver Sun hailed him as a real-life Horatio Alger story — “a poor and ambitious boy” who worked his way up “through hard work and initiative.” The New Westminster native was co-founder of Hume and Rumble, at one point the biggest electrical contractor in western Canada. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or This Week in History: 1967: Friendly Fred Hume dies at 74 Back to v...