Woman's fall from Berkshire County hotel balcony being investigated
A woman has been hospitalized after she fell from the third-floor balcony of her hotel room in Berkshire County, Mass. ...
WRGB Albany: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:45:27 GMT |
Morningstar Names Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway as Its 2008 CEO of the Year
Morningstar, Inc. , a leading provider of independent investment research, today named Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. as its 2008 CEO of the Year. Morningstar's annual award recognizes a chief executive who exhibits exemplary corporate stewardship, demonstrates independent thinking, creates lasting value for shareholders, and has put his or her stamp on an industry. ...
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:11:00 GMT |
Berkshire County Food Drive
Berkshire residents are organizing a food drive running now through January 16 to benefit the Salvation Army and the Berkshire Community Action council food pantries. ...
WRGB Albany: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:00:27 GMT |
Youths told to stay off icy lakes
Children are being warned not to risk their lives during the cold snap after youths were seen on two frozen lakes in Berkshire. ...
BBC News: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:44:11 GMT |
M&S to close two shops in county
Marks and Spencer plans to close two of its Simply Food stores in Berkshire as part of 25 UK food outlet closures. ...
BBC News: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:13:46 GMT |
Public back more parking spaces
A public consultation sees widespread support for an extra 900 parking spaces in a Berkshire town. ...
BBC News: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:44:38 GMT |
Wednesday's high school highlights
BOYS BASKETBALL n Billy Poole scored 24 points, and Berkshire (5-2) improved to 3-0 in the Chagrin Valley Conference with a 56-45 win over visiting Cuyahoga Heights. ...
The News-Herald: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:27:03 GMT |
Columnist way off the mark
How dare Dan Valenti in his op-ed article of Dec. 31 in The Berkshire Eagle call St. Stanislaus Kostka Church an "empty building ... with the official sacredness of a stadium urinal!" How dare he refer to the parishioners who are keeping a vigil as "selfish souls," "minority rabble," and "hotheads!" ...
North Adams Transcript: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:43:34 GMT |
Handicapped Couple Struggles with Wintry Weather
A handicapped couple in Williamsport says they’ve struggled for years with access to transportation when bad weather rolls around. Alfred Flowers and Frances Lombardo have lived at Berkshire Manor for more than 15 years. ...
PAHomePage.com: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:28:13 GMT |
Local school closings
GEAUGA Berkshire Local Schools - Burton: Closed Cardinal Local Schools - Middlefield: Closed Chardon Local Schools - Chardon: Closed Geauga Center Head Start - Middlefield: Closed Geauga County MR/DD-Metzenbaum Ctr. - Chesterland: Closed ...
The News-Herald: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:20:11 GMT |
Refinance As Low As 5.48% - Sponsored Link
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Moreover: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 07:16:00 GMT |
The News adds editorial staff to buyouts
First for the 2009 Book of Lists, total employment is just under 900 at the paper, owned by Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.A and BRK.B) of Omaha, Neb. While buyout offers have been made to other unions at the daily newspaper, the current offer is the ...
Moreover: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 07:16:00 GMT |
Alley Theatre Presents 'MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION' 1/9
Witness for the Prosecution) and Original Music and Sound Design by Scott Killian (Alley Debut, Resident Composer/Sound Designer Berkshire Theatre Festival). SPECIAL PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS CAPTIONED AND AUDIO DESCRIBED PERFORMANCE Saturday, January 10, ...
Moreover: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 06:53:00 GMT |
The Kennedy Center Presents The World Premiere Of UNLEASHED
most recently mounted the premiere of Karen Zacarías' The Book Club Play, which he directed again at the Berkshire Theatre Festival. As Resident Director at Theatre J, his productions have included The Disputation (starring Theodore Bikel), Miklat, A ...
Moreover: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 06:51:00 GMT |
Local school closings
Berkshire Local Schools - Burton: Closed Cardinal Local Schools - Middlefield: Closed Chardon Local Schools - Chardon: Closed Geauga Center Head Start - Middlefield: Closed Geauga County MR/DD-Metzenbaum Ctr. - Chesterland ...
Moreover: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 06:49:00 GMT |
Connie Jean Crittenden-Moore
School, Sudbury, Mass., where she met her soon-to-be husband, Douglas James Moore. She later continued on to attend Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield, Mass. She married Douglas, March 23, 1985, in Sudbury. They bought property in Blue Hill ...
Moreover: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 06:10:00 GMT |
Time ticking away for Dow to buy out Rohm & Haas
arranged a $13 billion one-year bridge loan and about $4 billion from outside investors, including Warren Buffett?s Berkshire Hathaway, to acquire Rohm & Haas. Dow planned to use less than a third of the bridge loan for the acquisition, but will ...
Moreover: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 05:17:00 GMT |
Greylock Employees Receive...
American Cancer Society has named Greylock Federal Credit Union the Relay For Life #1 Top Team Fundraiser of Berkshire County for the Central/South Region. Event Co-Chair Tricia Puntin said, We are extremely honored to have the team and staff at Greylock ...
Moreover: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 04:47:00 GMT |
Mesquite Police Reports
block Ingram *One 1996 Ford Explorer, valued at $5,000, was taken.12:00 p.m. 3200 block Berkshire *One 1993 Dodge Ram, valued at $2,000, was taken.2:30 p.m. 1300 block N. Gross 3:30 p.m. 19100 block I-635 4:00 p.m. 1100 ...
Moreover: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 04:31:00 GMT |
Mesquite Fire Reports
2 Statler Town East Mall Bruton Cartwright Windbell South I-635 Eastpark Hazardous Condition (No Fire) Dec. 28 Hillcrest Berkshire Dec. 29 Whit Grubb Oak Dec. 30 Galloway Dec. 31 Gus Thomasson Jan. 1 Palos Verdes No Incident Type Specified Jan. 2 Samuell ...
Moreover: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 04:31:00 GMT |
Man, 23, dies after motorway crash
23-YEAR-OLD man from Polegate has died after his car left a motorway and collided with a tree in Berkshire. The man, who has not yet been named, was driving a blue Peugeot 306 when it left the carriageway of the M4 between junctions 12 and 13, between ...
Moreover: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 04:23:00 GMT |
Levolux Delivers a Lesson in Sustainability
Fin Solar Shading system was hand picked for architects Foster + Partners? new-age Langley Academy of Science in Berkshire. Replacing a troubled 7,000sqm school, the unique new build 10,000sqm academy is re-inventing the school experience and educating ...
Moreover: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 03:58:00 GMT |
Boy's death to be investigated
An investigation has been launched by Berkshire West Primary Care Trust into the case of a 12-year-old boy from Reading who died after his mother twice contacted an out-of-hours medical service. Daniel Farr, from Tilehurst, was pronounced ...
Moreover: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 03:22:00 GMT |
Boy's death to be investigated
An investigation has been launched by Berkshire West Primary Care Trust into the case of a 12-year-old boy from Reading who died after his mother twice contacted an out-of-hours medical service. Daniel Farr, from Tilehurst, was pronounced ...
Moreover: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 03:16:00 GMT |
'Bad Dates' opening at Shakespeare & Company
for previews and $28.80 for all other performances, the prices of which reflect the company's current Berkshire County resident discount of 40 percent, provided for this production to all patrons as a gesture of community by the company. Info: ...
Moreover: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 03:03:00 GMT |
Boy's death to be investigated
An investigation has been launched by Berkshire West Primary Care Trust into the case of a 12-year-old boy from Reading who died after his mother twice contacted an out-of-hours medical service. Daniel Farr, from Tilehurst, was pronounced ...
Moreover: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 02:51:00 GMT |
Cops investigate after woman falls
the Red Lion Inn is being treated for internal injuries. Police are treating the fall at the popular Berkshire County hotel as an accident, but that may change when -- and if -- they speak to the victim who's now in serious condition. Berkshire County ...
Moreover: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 02:50:00 GMT |
Debt or daily fee: Dow weighs Rohm & Haas options
arranged a $13 billion one-year bridge loan and about $4 billion from outside investors, including Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, to acquire Rohm & Haas. Dow planned to use less than a third of the bridge loan for the acquisition, but will now ...
Moreover: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 02:36:00 GMT |
Sources: Aviation Layoffs Could Reach 3,000
past decade have been fractional ownership companies. The largest of those companies is NetJets, which is owned by Berkshire Hathaway, the Warren Buffet Company. Sources say only a few months ago, NetJets was ready to receive more than 40 Citation jets ...
Moreover: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 02:36:00 GMT |
and Sir Alan Sugar 'targeted' in anti-Semitic hit list on Islamic website
gone mad. Gordon Brown doesn't care about Jewish people. Click to rate Rating 72 - Roger Fairburn, Berkshire, 07/1/2009 12:08 Sounds like a golden opportunity for the police to catch some of them no? Let it be known that it's not considered a serious ...
Moreover: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 02:35:00 GMT |
Man, 23, dies after motorway crash
23-YEAR-OLD man from Polegate has died after his car left a motorway and collided with a tree in Berkshire. The man, who has not yet been named, was driving a blue Peugeot 306 when it left the carriageway of the M4 between junctions 12 and 13, between ...
Moreover: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 02:31:00 GMT |
Man seriously injured at accident black spot
A 29-year-old man from Tilehurst, who was a passenger in the Vauxhall, was taken to Reading's Royal Berkshire Hospital with a serious leg fracture. Pc Simon Nelson, of Chieveley Roads Policing department, asked for any witnesses who may have seen either ...
Moreover: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 01:19:00 GMT |
Investigation after death of Tilehurst boy
death and the family has made a complaint about the service they received. WestCall, which is managed by Berkshire West Primary Care Trust, provides urgent GP services to all patients in the West Berkshire area when normal GP surgeries are closed. A ...
Moreover: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 01:19:00 GMT |
Residents reminded to recycle their Christmas trees
WEST Berkshire Council is reminding residents to recycle their real Christmas trees this year. As Twelfth Night arrives, the district's residents are being urged to recycle their trees through the kerbside ...
Moreover: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 01:19:00 GMT |
Government blocks dispensary shake-up
GP surgeries from dispensing medication. Thousands of letters were received by the Department of Health from worried West Berkshire patients who expressed their fears over the proposed Pharmacy White Paper. The document meant that rural surgeries would ...
Moreover: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 01:19:00 GMT |
Rata Quits The Grand
Chef - £20-24K - Recruitment Now - Lake District Sous Chef - £Excellent - The Swan Inn - Berkshire ...
Moreover: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 00:34:00 GMT |
Boy's death to be investigated
Daniel Farr, from Tilehurst, was pronounced dead on arrival at the Royal Berkshire Hospital on Sunday. Rosemary Farr, 51, told the Daily Mail: 'Daniel could still be alive if one of the doctors had come out to see him.' The Year 8 pupil ...
Moreover: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 00:23:00 GMT |
Boy died after being refused visit
visited him, his mother claims. Daniel Farr, from Tilehurst, Reading, was pronounced dead on arrival at the Royal Berkshire Hospital on Sunday. The Year 8 pupil at Prospect School in Tilehurst was taken ill after a friend's birthday party on Friday ...
Moreover: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 00:16:00 GMT |
Boy's death to be investigated
An investigation has been launched by Berkshire West Primary Care Trust into the case of a 12-year-old boy from Reading who died after his mother twice contacted an out-of-hours medical service. Daniel Farr, from Tilehurst, was pronounced ...
Moreover: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 00:15:00 GMT |
Middle-class bingers: Young teenagers in affluent areas 'are more likely to abuse drink and drugs'
The figure for Kent is 12.8 per cent, for Windsor and Maidenhead 12.3 per cent, West Berkshire 13.2 per cent, Hertfordshire 12.2 and Brighton and Hove 13.7 per cent. By contrast, the figure for Manchester is 7 per cent; Birmingham is 7.5 per ...
Moreover: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 00:13:00 GMT |
The elephant in the room
think an inherent weakness of TMF boards is an inevitable bias in favor of the 'home team.' The Berkshire board has lots of cheerleaders, for example. On this board I'm a member of the minority who, now and again, shouts: 'Not so fast!' This isn't out of ...
Moreover: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 23:59:00 GMT |
