PITTSFIELD - The second annual Berkshires Dream Auction will be held beggining on May 18. All money raised during the auction will benefit the Berkshire Marketing Fund.

In 2011, he Berkshire Marketing Fund was creataed to help reduce the regions dependence on state funds for tourism marketing.

The online auction will run from May18- June 5. Any Berkshire business that would like to contribute an auction item or experience to support this venture is encouraged to do so.

For more information, contact Dara, 413-743-4500.

Capital Region residents and businesses with unwanted electronic equipment can recycle it in an environmentally friendly way.

The 10th Annual Electronics Recycling Day will be held on Saturday, April 21 at Taft Furniture in Colonie and volunteers are needed, especially to help unload cars.

The recycling day is being held in honor of Earth Day and people and businesses are invited to recycle used TV’s, computers, cell phones, VCR’s and other unwanted electronic equipment.

Last year, over 4,000 cars lined up to recycle unwanted electronics and over 250 tons of electronic equipment was recovered and recycled instead of going to landfills. The equipment filled up 20 tractor trailers.

NewsChannel 13, participating municipalities and other sponsors will host the event that will be held from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.

ADAMS, Mass. - As Catholics around the world mark the beginning of the holiest week of the year, parishioners at St. Stanislaus Kostka Church in Adams, Mass. celebrated the rebirth of their church.

St. Stan's held its first mass on Palm Sunday three years after it was ordered shut down by the diocese.

Hundreds of parishioners packed the church, overjoyed to hear voices singing, the organ playing and the priest saying mass once again. They came from all over the Bay State to be a part of the re-opening of St. Stan's.

The church was ordered closed by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Springfield in 2008 because of declining attendance. But some parishioners never left, keeping a prayer vigil 24/7 at the church for the past three years, hoping the diocese would change the order.