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Here's Where This Year's Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Is Coming From In Mass Here's Where This Year's Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Is Coming From In Mass
Here's Where This Year's Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Is Coming From In Mass With Spooky Season over, attention is turning to the holidays and New York’s iconic Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. This year’s tree is a 74-foot tall Norway Spruce from Massachusetts that was grown in Berkshire County in West Stockbridge, Rockefeller Center announced on Instagram. Weighing in at around 11 tons, it’s the first Rockefeller Center Christmas tree to come from the Bay State since 1959. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rockefeller Center (@rockefellercenter) The colossal tree will make the 136-mile journey to Manha…

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by Michael Mashburn
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Man Killed In Hit-Run Crash In Western Mass ID'd, Driver Charged: DA Man Killed In Hit-Run Crash In Western Mass ID'd, Driver Charged: DA
Man Killed In Hit-Run Crash In Western Mass ID'd, Driver Charged: DA Police identified a 72-year-old Berkshire County as the victim in a hit-and-run crash last week. The woman accused of hitting him faced a judge for the first time on Tuesday, Oct. 1.  Samantha C. Paige, 36, or West Stockbridge, is charged with leaving the scene of a crash resulting in death, the Berkshire County District Attorney said. A judge ordered her held on a $7,500 bail, but she will not be released from jail after the judge revoked her bond in an unrelated case, authorities said.  Paige is accused of crashing into 72-year-old Franklin Ripley as he rode an electric sco…

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by Josh Lanier