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To be considered low risk, a state’s rate must be below 5 percent. In New England, that’s the case for Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and, also, New York, and also for Washington, D.C. With the new standards, people traveling in from California, Hawaii, New Jersey and Washi…

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The Great Barrington, Pittsfield and Williamstown post offices will be receiving these letters.

The grant is from the Center for Tech and Civic Life, a national nonprofit dedicated to increasing civic engagement and professional administration in elections. City Clerk Deborah Pedercini applied for the grant.

The Williamstown Select Board Wednesday released a statement in response to concerns raised by the town's police officers and discussed the process the board is undertaking to review police policies.

The Select Board set the hours for 5:30 to 7 p.m. and are recommending the "GHOST" protocol outlined by North Adams two weeks ago for the city's observances.

According to calculations presented to the board, this would make the tax rate about $13.38 per $1,000 valuation, but Board of Assessors Chairwoman Barbara Astorino cautioned they were not setting a rate but rather classification.

"I think it's really important to point out once again … and Dr. [Deborah] Birx said the same thing when she was here last week: The biggest single issue that's driving case growth is familiar people being familiar with each other," Baker said Tuesday afternoon. "She …

The Baker-Polito administration has launched a $171 million "Eviction Diversion Initiative" to keep tenants safely in their homes and to support the ongoing expenses of landlords once the commonwealth's pause of evictions and foreclosures expires on Saturday, Oct. 17.

The county's largest employer expected to lose $60 million this year when the pandemic first hit. But government assistance sharply cut that daunting figure by half for Berkshire Health Systems.