Word: pittsfield
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...Buffalo Bisons best illustrate the metamorphosis of the minors. In 1982 the Double A team drew an audience of just 77,000 for the season. That year Rich bought the franchise for $100,000. In 1984 he sold the team for $350,000 to investors who moved it to Pittsfield, Mass. A few months later, Rich picked up the Triple A Wichita Aeros for $1 million and moved the team to Buffalo. In 1987 the new Bisons attracted close to 500,000 to their games, the best attendance in the minors. This year the Bisons are playing...
Boston is among 15 Massachusetts cities holding preliminary elections for local officials Tuesday. The others are Beverly, Everett, Haverhill, Lynn, Leominster, Medford, Newburyport, North Adams, Peabody, Pittsfield, Revere, Salem, Springfield and Westfield...
This problem, Peterkin said, would pit the ethnically and racially diverse population of Cambridge against those of, for example, Pittsfield residents'. If the bill passes, he would submit his plan to state authorities, but if enough resources existed to develop the plan, Peterkin would not let the Board tell him that "the multi-lingual, multi-cultural education interferes with their computer literacy education...
...Only one of the state's 11 Congressmen, Rep Silvio O. Conte (R-Pittsfield) is a Republican. With two exceptions, no Republican has won a Congressional election in the state for nearly a decade...
DIED. Mabel Mercer, 84, reigning queen of cabaret singers for nearly 70 years, whose unsurpassed ability to turn even the most banal tune into a timeless vignette of love and loss delighted generations of supper-club audiences; of heart disease; in Pittsfield, Mass. Born in England of a white English mother and black American father, Mercer gained renown at Bricktop's Paris café in the 1930s and went to the U.S. in 1939. As her husky contralto began to fail, she honed her unique blend of cadenced speech and vocalizing, delivering such songs...