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For the fifth year in a row, The Berkshire Eagle has won a Newspaper of the Year award for its Weekender edition in a competition open to publications throughout New

A new survey documents the extent of the problems, yet help may be on the way.

PROJECT PAYCHECK: Child care centers in the Berkshires are fighting to hold it together, one positive COVID-19 test and one teacher resignation after another. By all accounts, the pandemic has

PROJECT PAYCHECK: Unlike some in the “great resignation,” singer-songwriter Bernice Lewis isn’t walking away from a career. She’d gladly run right back to the music business that’s been her life

PROJECT PAYCHECK: One of this year’s tech startups in the Berkshires displays a little needle on its website, with a thread poking through. Jane and Eric Singer, of Lenox, arent

PROJECT PAYCHECK: Staffing agencies sit, as brokers, between the region’s many current job openings and today’s shallow pool of candidates. This is what theyre seeing.

Project Paycheck: 100 jobs. Thats the pandemic shrinkage at the Brien Center, Berkshire Countys largest human services agency. We look at what thats meant.

Project Paycheck: The other day, a partner at the Pittsfield law firm Martin & Oliveira got in touch to say they’ve been looking for three paralegals for a year. Though

Project Paycheck: Roberta Dus and Rick Callahan got their restaurant, Paddy’s Pub, through the worst of the pandemic. Then came the labor shortage — and a wholesale flight from the

Project Paycheck: Here are early comments we’ve been getting from readers — you know, people who are experts, writ small, in how the pandemic has affected their lives and jobs.