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May 31, 2021 | 04:03AM The Berkshire Regional Planning Commission is asking residents and businesses for ideas about how to help downtown recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. click for more May 27, 2021 | 04:11AM The Williamstown Fire District held its annual meeting on Tuesday, and the dozen or so voters in attendance passed all items on the nine-article warrant unanimously and without discussion. click for more May 26, 2021 | 02:48AM The Select Board on Monday announced the first appointees t...

WILLIAMSTOWN — Pine Cobble School has announced a national search to find a replacement for Susannah Wells, Head of School, who will be retiring from her post at the end

4:00 The historically large East Mountain Fire is approaching full containment in Northern Berkshire County, but it meant a tense weekend for locals on the fringes of the fire. It’s taken days of hard work, dozens of agencies, scores of firefighters and almost a thousand acres of burned land for the East Mountain Fire to approach containment. While no structures have been impacted by the flames, area residents like Stephen Murray were faced with daunting choices as the fire expanded from Will...

NORTH ADAMS — Francis Levesque was near the top of Pine Cobble, taking a break from fighting the state’s largest fire in more than two decades, when he heard a bleating sound. The Savoy volunteer firefighter left his crewmates, just a handful of the 120 firefighters trying to contain the massive wildland fire on Monday, and followed the noise through the woods to a lone fawn. He could tell almost immediately that the creature was in trouble. “She was severely dehydrated,” he...

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Firefighter Frank Levesque carries the fawn he found between some rocks on Monday. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — It was a bleating sound that attracted Savoy firefighter Frank Levesques attention on Monday as the crew he was with worked to contain the states largest wildland fire in two decades.   The sounds were coming from a fawn in distress and the firefighters were able to quickly get the baby into the hands of a wildlife rehabilitator.   "We were just taking a break around noontime, and we...

WILLIAMSTOWN — Fire crews from around the region are working to contain a wildland fire in the Clarksburg State Forest area that has become the states largest fire in more

4:19 Massachusetts officials say an ongoing wildland fire in Northern Berkshire County is the state’s largest in over a decade. The East Mountain Fire began as a brushfire in Williamstown on Friday, and has spread thanks to wind events over into the Clarksburg State Forest. More than 120 firefighters from 19 surrounding towns and state units are attempting to contain it. Williamstown Fire Chief Craig Pedercini spoke Monday afternoon. “I can report at this point weve burned about 800 acres a...

UPDATE: WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Fire officials pulled crews off East Mountain mid-afternoon on Saturday when it became clear that shifting winds were creating hazardous conditions and the...

Firefighters are battling a large brush fire in Williamstown that has spread across as many as 180 acres, according to early estimates. The fire drew a wide response from fire departments across the Berkshires and in neighboring Vermont when smoke was first reported near Henderson Road early Friday evening. Firefighters are not sure what started it.  A section of woods still smolders on Saturday after the brush fire broke out in Williamstown. Firefighters were still battling the blaze for a th...