Friendship Center Food Pantry Adds Thursday Evening Hours

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Al Nelson Friendship Food Pantry announces that it will begin opening on Thursday evenings starting on Thursday April 9.
 
It will be open from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. every Thursday. The pantry, at 45 Eagle Street, serves households in North Adams, Clarksburg and Florida Mountain.
 
The Board of Directors decided to add the hours to serve those who can't come to the pantry during its Wednesday hours in the morning and early afternoon.
 
On Wednesdays they are open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., with sign-ins at the Eagle Street Room of the First Baptist Church. On Thursdays, sign-ins will take place at the food pantry at 45 Eagle Street.
 
The Friendship Center Food Pantry, a member program of the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts, is an all-volunteer program of the Northern Berkshire Interfaith Action Initiative Inc.
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NAFD/NAPD Forces Championship Final in Women's League

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires.com Sports
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. – North Adams Fire Department/Police Department scored three runs in the top of the sixth to take a one-run lead and held on for a 5-4 win over Belle Ame Lashes in the championship round of the North Adams Women’s Softball League.
 
Carrie Brassard went 2-for-3 with a double and an RBI and Kenzie Dobbert recorded a pair of strikeouts as NAFD/ NAPD forced a winner-take-all finale on Tuesday night to conclude the double-elimination tournament.
 
It was a pitchers’ duel early between Lashes’ Sarah Sweet and Dobbert, who started a 1-3 double play on a line drive back to the circle and speared another line drive for the third out in the third inning.
 
Sweet got out of a jam after putting runners on first and second to start the third with three straight outs to help keep it a 0-0 game going to the fourth.
 
In the top of the fourth, the first responders scored the game’s first two runs.
 
Heather Morris got things started with a leadoff single to left and moved into scoring position on Brassard’s single.
 
Morris came home when Anna Dix singled up the middle, and an infield error allowed NAFD/NAPD to score its second run.
 
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