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World Cup fever mounts in the Berkshires
We’ve heard the soccer stories from Europe and South America: bars decimated down to the shattered toilets after a win. The stadium brawls, head butts and bloodshed. In Brazil last year a referee...
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School choice forum provides abundant information, but few were there to hear it
The vociferous, anti-spending voices of recent town meetings and school renovation information sessions were absent from Wednesday night’s (June 18) sparsely attended forum on school choice, the...
View ArticleSelectboard gives fairgrounds go-ahead
Great Barrington – After months of regulatory hassle, the Great Barrington Fair Ground (GBFG) Community Redevelopment project got the green light to apply for building permits to make alterations and...
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Finance Committee mulls implications of census data
Great Barrington – It is either a grand problem, a tiny bump in the road, or entirely incorrect, depending on who moves in or out of the Berkshires, the direction of the birth rate, and a number of...
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Bioremediation of toxic waste under way at Log Home site
Great Barrington – Above ground, activity may seem to have quieted down at the contaminated former New England Log Homes (NELH) site on Bridge Street. Below ground, it’s another story. Within the soil,...
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Federal grants to benefit Housatonic and homeowners
Housatonic –The sun shone on the Commonwealth Friday. It was raining federal money. In an afternoon press conference behind the old Housatonic Elementary School, Gov. Deval Patrick announced $27.5...
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BRTA says it needs input to improve local transit routes
Great Barrington – It was a shocking revelation delivered to a tranquil Great Barrington Selectboard Monday night: It takes two hours to get from Great Barrington to Pittsfield by public transit bus....
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Land Conservancy honors David Inglis, Mahaiwe Harvest at 1st Annual Community...
Great Barrington – The Great Barrington Land Conservancy has partnered with David Inglis, owner of Mahaiwe Harvest on South Main Street, to preserve his property for agricultural use “into perpetuity,”...
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New campaign for renovated high school gears up in Berkshire Hills
Great Barrington – With the November 4 re-vote of a proposed $51.2 million renovation of Monument Mountain Regional High School right around the corner, and a downsized project slated for the ballot,...
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Rotary Club Bike-N-Fly to raise scholarship money
Great Barrington – Some people like to ride, some like to fly, and some like to do both. This Saturday, cycling and aviation enthusiasts, and anyone looking for a nice day out in the Berkshires —...
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Monument Mountain preserve, trails extended to village of Housatonic
Housatonic – It is a historical and literary landmark that is home to wildlife and dizzying vistas of the Housatonic Valley and beyond. Now more of Monument Mountain – which receives 20,000 visitors a...
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Odor issues halt Log Homes bioremediation
Great Barrington – At first, rain was at a blessing for bioremediation work at the former New England Log Homes site. Now, it is a big problem. Work has been on and off at the Bridge Street site,...
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Renovate the high school? Can we afford not to?
Great Barrington – This much is clear to almost everyone: something needs to be done about Monument Mountain Regional High School. Tax fatigue notwithstanding, we know that some of venerable high...
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Perfect Internet storm sinks Berkshire Hills websites
Great Barrington — School buses are moving, backpacks are loaded, and lunch boxes have already begun to stink. But something is missing. The Berkshire Hills Regional School District’s website, as well...
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‘Star man’: A trip to Saturn from Mason Library lawn
Great Barrington – It looked like a small white cannon there in front of the Mason Library. I thought maybe our police department had finally gone a step too far. But it was night when I drove by....
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District presents case for renovated high school; few turn out to hear it
Temperatures may have turned cool, but the Berkshire Hills Regional School District sits in the hot seat as it explains to voters — for a second year in a row — why Monument Regional High School...
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Bioremediation resumes at Log Homes site; development by spring
Great Barrington – Great Barrington waits and wonders as a pioneering bioremediation process in the center of town approaches its final stages. Everyone is asking: will it work? Now that tilling and...
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Bits and bytes from the Berkshires
PTA Award for Muddy Brook Muddy Brook Elementary School had a lot to celebrate at their back-to-school Ice Cream Social September 10. Muddy Brook’s PTA was one of 170 schools across the country given a...
View ArticleCommunity mourns John Krahm, 59, beloved educator
West Stockbridge – In what is a devastating shock to several communities, John Krahm, a beloved social worker, school administrator and school committee member, died last Sunday, September 14, at his...
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Bits & Bytes: Feast, faces, and a promenade
‘About Face': Face to face with imagination The current show, ‘About Face,’ at St. Francis Gallery (1370 Pleasant St., Route 102) in South Lee is about the “subtle language of the face,” what faces...
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