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Weather
A file photo of a winter storm hitting Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
Adam Frenier
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NEPM
Officials in Pittsfield and Springfield said they have already exceeded their snow and ice removal budgets for the season.
The Fabulous 413 talks to author of "Janie Writes a Play: Jane Yolen’s First Great Story," Heidi E. Y. Stemple, and her mother and inspiration of the book, Jane Yolen.
NEPM
We discuss family storytelling with picture book "Jane Writes a Play," learn about this weekend's Queer Story Slam, and McGovern with Rep. Jim McGovern.
This week’s panel for The Rundown includes Jim Kinney, reporter at the Springfield Republican; political consultant Ryan McCollum; and Berkshire Eagle reporter Heather Bellow [not pictured].
Tony Dunne
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NEPM
Today on The Rundown with Carrie Saldo, panelists discuss the expansive legacy of local Black author James Weldon Johnson, discuss the absence of fluoride in drinking water in the Berkshires, remember the life of Bishop Bryant Robinson and much more.
Commentary
While commentator Susan Johnson needs to be outside for hours everyday in winter, her cat prefers to stay inside by Johnson's wood stove.
Susan Johnson
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Courtesy of the author
There’s no mud or bugs, air is crisp, the sun late afternoon beams through hemlock needles that act like prisms scattering shards of light. Who’d want to miss that?