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PITTSFIELD — The city of Pittsfield has received $1.1 million in state money to begin developing the largest of the William Stanley Business Park’s nine building sites. The money from two separate state programs will pay for preparing building Site 9 for construction. The 16.5-acre tract borders on Tyler Street and Woodlawn Avenue at the northern end of the 52-acre business park. The park, home to General Electric’s former power transformer facility, is contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which are probable carcinogens. It often is referred to as the teens par...

Updated on March 9, 2021 at 2:14 pm Getty Images Gov. Charlie Baker shared his thoughts Tuesday about what the post-pandemic world -- or what he refers to as "the next normal" -- could look like for Massachusetts. "Honestly, if we can get a significant portion of our population vaccinated and if the feds can amp up the supply in a big way, the possibilities and opportunities for us to get back to what looks like the next normal is very real," he said. Download our mobile app for iOS to get alerts for local breaking news and weather. Baker said it's possible that the way the people work in Ma...

By Amanda Burke, The Berkshire Eagle The U.S. Senate narrowly passed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill on Saturday, sending it back to the House then President Joseph Biden for final approval. The bill provides direct relief payments to many Berkshires residents, as well as aid for cities, which will no doubt prove to be a boon to Pittsfield as finance officials keep working on the budget for next fiscal year. And at its Zoom meeting on Wednesday, the School Committee will dive into Pittsfield Public Schools finances at its first public budget presentation of this year. But before that ...