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Salisbury Bank robber nabbed after crashing getaway car following second...
Police say Sheridan, 36, was unarmed when he robbed Salisbury Bank and Trust Company, 310 Main St. in Great Barrington, on Monday afternoon. Great Barrington — The Connecticut man who, on Monday (Feb....
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Aviation magazine gives clues to Koladza Airport’s expanded future
Great Barrington — At the heart of the airport controversy is what airport abutters and neighbors say are future expansion plans beyond what Berkshire Aviation Enterprises Inc. is telling everyone as...
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Mighty No Bitey, Berkshire organic bug spray, heads to the Oscars
Great Barrington — Terri See was waiting at the baggage carousel at LAX when the smell of essential oils began wafting about rather strongly. She just knew what had happened, and then she saw it: her...
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Sandisfield resident calls for town revote on broadband strategy
Sandisfield — As regional frustration over limping Internet speeds reaches a fever pitch, it is only natural that there would be disagreements about the way forward as some Berkshire County towns begin...
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As airport continues permit quest, threat from lead in plane fuel causes concern
Great Barrington — There was a new twist last night in Berkshire Aviation’s continued quest for a special permit for Walter J. Koladza Airport: concern over the use and sale of leaded aviation fuel....
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Great Barrington Selectboard considers resolution to protect organic farms...
Berkshire Co-op board president Dan Seitz is also on the National Organic Standards board. Photo: Heather Bellow Great Barrington — While the genetically modified organisms (GMOs) industry still claims...
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Powerhouse Square critical to keep Co-op in downtown, market manager says
Great Barrington — With a game-changing downtown development heading toward the continuance of its special permit hearing on Monday (Feb. 27) and a groundbreaking set for next month, support by...
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Powerhouse Square developer gets special permit for GB complex; new Co-op...
Great Barrington — Benchmark Development got its special permit Monday (Feb.27) from the Selectboard, pushing the Powerhouse Square developers closer to a groundbreaking that will likely be just...
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Great Barrington economy at risk for lack of fiber optic broadband network
Great Barrington — While many of the little towns surrounding this south Berkshire County hub push forward with fiber optic high-speed Internet efforts, this town’s inferior Internet speeds may stay...
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Developer says no to polluted Ried Cleaners; town should ‘take lead’
Great Barrington — A developer whose offer to buy a heavily polluted property was rejected last year says he won’t consider another stab at it. Mill Renaissance LLC’s Jeffrey Cohen told The Edge that...
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Tennessee Gas to pay state $1.2 million in pipeline-related compensation
Pittsfield — After months of negotiations, Kinder Morgan subsidiary Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company LLC agreed in a settlement to pay the state more than $640,000 for an easement in Otis State Forest, a...
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Horror stories: War correspondent’s ‘Dispatches from Syria’
Great Barrington — She’s been dragged from a car at gunpoint, marched into the woods and threatened with rape. Some of her friends and colleagues have been kidnapped, others, beheaded. But...
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New Year’s fire destroys Mill River home, family belongings of educators...
Mill River — It is the second time this winter a family lost their home to a catastrophic fire. And yet again, no one was injured. David and Dianna Lupiani and their six sons were away overnight during...
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Music Store to close, crushed by online shopping, local downturn
Great Barrington — The Internet has dealt yet another fatal blow to a local business, and this one will have us all out of tune in a jiffy. The Music Store, which for more than 16 years has kept a very...
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Public process initiated for troubled Bridge Street brownfield site
Great Barrington — People now officially have a say in what happens at the contaminated former New England Log Homes site at 100 Bridge St. The site’s owner, Community Development Corporation of South...
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Tennessee Gas pipeline may ‘bulldoze’ sacred Native American sites
Sandisfield — A letter from a Narragansett Indian Tribal official to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) accuses FERC of...
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Pressure MassDEP to restart bioremediation at brownfield site, say activists
Great Barrington — They packed the room, hoping to make something happen, and fast. But, alas, it will take a while. The formal process for giving people information and a voice in what happens at the...
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Former students file suit against BHRSD, former administrators over sex abuse...
Stockbridge — They said their elementary school counselor did things to them in his basement office like putting them on his lap, breathing heavily in their ears, groping their private parts and more...
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Eagle Mill hotel may grow to 85 rooms with potential partnership
Lee — With still more rings of regulatory fire to jump through, the former Eagle Mill complex next to the Housatonic River is getting closer to its final transformation and may now feature a new...
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New Co-op plans challenged by neighbor, Wheeler & Taylor
Wheeler & Taylor attorney Peter Puciloski tells the board his client is concerned about property line issues. Photo: Heather Bellow Great Barrington — Developers of the new Berkshire Co-op Market...
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Great Barrington special town meeting to address school funding options,...
Great Barrington — A Special Town Meeting next week will likely ask voters to weigh in on two issues that have been at the top of local debate and discussion over the last few years: how the three...
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‘Haven at Night’: From baked goods to Prana Bar
Great Barrington — Uh oh: Now there is bahn mi to be had on Stockbridge Road. I kid you not, whatever may be lacking in the global street food department around here is going to be rectified at Prana...
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18th Annual Interfaith Celebration of legacy and work of Martin Luther King Jr.
Great Barrington — It was a full church on this holy day as both the clergy and community celebrated the man and something he put his heart into in the years before his 1968 assassination: the nuts and...
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Risks to Sheffield water supply from Bridge Street brownfield prompt call for...
Great Barrington — A man stood up in the Town Hall meeting room last summer and told town officials he was concerned about the movement of contaminated groundwater under the 8-acre 100 Bridge Street...
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The Berkshires gear up for Women’s March on Washington and local solidarity...
Pittsfield — The trains are sold out, most of the bus seats are reserved, the women––and men–– are packing their sensible walking shoes, and many a pussy hat is being speed knitted after the girls have...
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Gov. Baker economic secretary ‘surprised’ by criticism of broadband strategy...
Great Barrington — Two days after the publication of a scathing article about how Western Massachusetts is facing economic death at the sword of the state’s broadband approach for rural towns,...
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Sister March at Colonial Theatre draws throngs from across the Berkshires
Pittsfield — The weather was warm as if to help the more than 1,500 Women’s March on Washington sister event marchers waiting their turn to cycle in and out of the Colonial Theatre Saturday (January...
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Four desperate towns make broadband pact, pitch MBI for funds
Lee — Drive by the Sandisfield library at night, even during a snowstorm, and the parking lot is filled with parents waiting in idling cars while their children do homework inside because it’s the only...
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Berkshire Regional Planning Commission: Region faces third-world...
Pittsfield — Without fiber optic networks, very high speeds, state regulation of the telecommunications industry and a swift, large-scale investment in a broadband infrastructure, Berkshire County and...
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Large solar project hits GB zoning roadblock, heads to ZBA for appeal
Great Barrington — A large commercial solar array proposed for 10 to 12 acres of a 20-acre agricultural lot on West Plain Road has run into a roadblock with the building inspector over town zoning...
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As Trump takes aim at sanctuary cities, Great Barrington may make itself one
Great Barrington — The town may soon have more detailed policy language that identifies it as a sanctuary city after a resident said she would consider creating a town citizens’ petition so that the...
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Great Barrington approves amended school funding, finance reform, and...
Great Barrington — At a special town meeting, voters tonight (January 26) passed an amended Berkshire Hills Regional School District agreement, endorsed support for an education finance reform bill,...
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Housing Authority meeting reveals struggles between tenants and board
Housatonic — It was Barbara Heaphy’s last meeting as executive director for the Great Barrington Housing Authority, and it wasn’t easy. At the Jan. 19 meeting at Flag Rock Village, from left: outgoing...
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Steiner School says it was blindsided by solar array plan next door as town...
Great Barrington — A proposed commercial solar project that prompted the town to start writing solar zoning regulations has run up against another snag because of its residential/agricultural location...
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Communication meltdown has school scrambling over neighbor’s solar plan
Great Barrington — The owner of the energy company proposing a commercial solar array on a residential/agricultural parcel 400 feet from the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School nursery and...
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Amid regional broadband crisis, a tiny town is about to speed up
Mt. Washington — While the entire region limps along with slow Internet speeds, some exasperated towns have found a way though the broadband jungle. Mt. Washington Town Hall, where residents voted...
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Great Barrington ‘Trust Policy’ for sanctuary status to go before voters in May
Great Barrington — One week after Boston mayor Marty Walsh said he’d harbor undocumented people in his office at City Hall and just a day after three states, including Massachusetts, sued the Trump...
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School and farmer, both on economic tightwire, work through solar dilemma
Great Barrington — It is a rural tale of a farmer, struggling financially like most farmers, and a nonprofit school, struggling financially like most nonprofit schools. Both now find themselves in a...
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MassDEP approves remediation plan for 100 Bridge St. development
Great Barrington — The owners of the former New England Log Homes site on Bridge Street got a green light this week to move forward with plans to remediate and cap toxic soil at a site that has long...
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A ‘funeral’ for conservation, as pipeline goliath Kinder Morgan acquires...
Pittsfield — Inside the courthouse, the financial deal was sealed. Outside, there was coffin, pallbearers, a procession, a eulogy. There was a funeral. Because today was the day the Commonwealth and...
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Berkshire-based writer’s script to come to BIFF this week
Ashley Falls — While most screenwriters are stuck in traffic on the 405 in L.A. on the way to a pitch meeting, Maria Nation is on her farm feeding her donkeys, horses, dogs and feral cats before she...
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Koladza Airport owners plan expansion but the neighbors disapprove
Great Barrington — In a rural residential area surrounded by corn and hay fields and rolling vistas, owners of what is now a small-town airport have expansion plans that have neighbors flooding town...
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ZBA ruling backs building inspector on solar ruling; solar project on farm...
Great Barrington — The Zoning Board of Appeals was put to a hard test this week. Wednesday’s ZBA hearing (February 8) was overflowing with people wondering whether the board would back the building...
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In response to criticism, CDC modifies affordable housing plans for GB...
Great Barrington — After finally getting clearance from the state to prepare a brownfield for affordable housing and other future development, the Community Development Corporation of South Berkshire...
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As rumors of roundup swirl through immigrant community, ICE officials deny a...
Great Barrington — Unconfirmed reports shooting through Facebook last week that six undocumented Great Barrington residents were arrested by immigration authorities and taken away from their...
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GB Selectboard hears opposing pleas from pilots, neighbors over airport...
Great Barrington — It’s an 86-year-old small-town airport smack in the middle of an idyllic rural residential area that, to some, should stay the same and, to others, should be improved and expanded....
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Police issue warrant for suspected Salisbury bank robber
Police have issued a warrant for Eric James Sheridan, 36, of Danielson, Connecticut, for allegedly committing “unarmed bank robbery” at Salisbury Bank and Trust Company, 310 Main St. in Great...
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Rockwell Museum Four Freedoms forum explores immigration and the refugee...
Stockbridge — In just one month, Donald Trump’s presidency has shot immigration and refugee issues into the light, striking fear into many hearts as campaign rhetoric about building walls, rounding...
View ArticleHousatonic Railroad not at fault, company lawyer says, for fatal April collision
Great Barrington — A lawyer for the Housatonic Railroad Company told The Edge Thursday (January 12) that state police had determined that the railroad was not responsible for the fatal April 2016...
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Salisbury Bank robbed; thief escapes with ‘small’ amount of cash
Editor’s note: this article has been updated with additional information received from Great Barrington Police on Wednesday, Feb. 15. Great Barrington —Great Barrington Police Chief William Walsh said...
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