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DoorDash driver Alpha Barry had claimed he stopped at John Reilly’s home to ask for help after his phone died. Reilly fired two shots as Barry drove away, one of which struck him in the back.

The Chester highway superintendent faces attempted murder, assault and other felony charges for allegedly shooting the driver who came to his door last May.

It took weeks of planning and measuring, but after a fleet of tow trucks spent hours pulling it, a piece of locomotive history arrived at its new home in western Massachusetts.

An upstate New York town official accused of shooting and wounding a food delivery person says he was protecting his family and has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and other charges.

This summer, The Chester Theatre Company in Chester Massachusetts will present its 35th Season of literate stage performance in The Berkshires.James Barry and Tara Franklin are Co-Producing Artistic Directors at Chester Theatre Company, this is their second season in the gig and they’ve prepared a season that includes two world premieres and pieces by playwriting luminaries.

Chester, Massachusetts officials hosted a press conference on long-awaited federal storm relief funding last week – but that’s not all that’s going on in the town known as the “Gem Of The Valley.”

Western Massachusetts politicians gathered in Chester today to announce the disbursement of $7.5 million in federal relief funds to small communities impacted by July’s severe storms.

Today in our Ideas Matter segment, we check in with the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and learn about the Chester Made Project.The project uses the…