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In Becket woods, a poet and his international dust collection
Becket — I went into the forest to see a poet and his dust. Up Route 20 the woods flash by in color. Sunlight angles across a marsh; a lake is blinding silver. I control my urge to stop and satisfy my...
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Affordable housing projects dominate Great Barrington CPC deliberations
Great Barrington — Plans to build affordable housing on the former New England Log Homes site will go forward regardless of whether the Berkshire Co-op Market — or any other large tenant — drops its...
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Hotel site review attracts belligerent crowd to Great Barrington Town Hall
Great Barrington — They came to Town Hall looking for trouble, but the overflowing room of residents opposed to the proposed 95-room hotel on Bridge Street instead found themselves trapped in a...
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Restoring Searles School offered as alternative to 95-room luxury hotel
Great Barrington — As controversy and discontent swelled last week over a local developer’s proposal to raze the former Searles Middle and High School and put a 95-room hotel and conference center in...
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At GB Selectboard, raw nerves, full moon and damned cobraheads
Great Barrington — Despite a shimmering sun-kissed fall, a weary edginess has crept into the spirits of townspeople and its government after months of ripped up roads, mass kvetching over the Main...
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State awards Great Barrington $2.1 million for Bridge Steet upgrades
Great Barrington — Bridge Street and its surrounding area, and the development projects proposed or underway there, got a boost from the state today (October 30) when Assistant Secretary of Housing and...
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Halloween on the GB Hill — 2015
Great Barrington — They came in hoards and gangs, alone or with parents. Toddlers and teens crossed paths, occasionally running into each other as they marched for candy in vision obstructing costumes,...
View ArticleLake Mansfield forums to outline options for recreation area
Great Barrington — The town this Wednesday (November 4) will host the first of several community forums meant to come up with solutions and consensus about the Lake Mansfield Recreation Area. It is the...
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Great Barrington CPA committee focuses on need for affordable housing — mostly
Great Barrington — So many worthy projects, too few dollars. That was the struggle at a marathon Community Preservation Committee Thursday (October 29) in which the committee had to whittle down...
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Community Health Programs: An agency in turmoil, doctors say
Great Barrington — Six Community Health Programs (CHP) physicians are in open revolt against the non-profit organization’s administration, its Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer Bryan...
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Community Health Programs CEO Bryan Ayars resigns, citing ‘internal discord’
Great Barrington — One week after six Community Health Programs (CHP) doctors came forward with complaints about CHP CEO Bryan Ayars and the Board of Directors – read Edge article here — Ayars has...
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Cost-saving Housatonic solar project to go online in January
Housatonic — On a 12-acre muddy brownfield behind the old Rising Paper Mill Company complex next to the Housatonic River, modernity is juxtaposed against the polluted past as a large solar farm is...
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Monument High School repairs estimated at $11 million – with no state...
Great Barrington — A preliminary 5-year, $11 million capital plan to fix and update things that simply can’t wait at 50-year-old Monument Mountain Regional High School shows asbestos and lead abatement...
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Hotel debate at Historical Commission, with foes asking: Will Great...
Great Barrington — At a sparsely attended Historical Commission meeting last night (November 16) in the State Street Fire Station several residents opposed to razing the former Searles Middle and High...
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Another Bridge Street hotel plan being readied, this one at Log Homes site
Great Barrington — In a new twist to the ever shifting plans for developments on Bridge Street, Lenox-based hotel developer Joseph M. Toole of Toole Lodging Group yesterday confirmed he has signed an...
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Affordable housing, historic sites earn GB Community Preservation nod
Great Barrington — After a string of marathon meetings in which the Community Preservation Committee struggled with how to divvy up almost $800,000 in Community Preservation Act money for what it said...
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School Committee: No state funds for estimated $11 million Monument High repairs
Stockbridge — As representatives from three towns are about to converge and possibly modify an agreement that governs how much each town contributes to the schools, the Berkshire Hills Regional School...
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In solar capital of South County second Housatonic array to go online in...
Housatonic — With the sun at a sharp angle and the wind like a knife, Kirt Mayland stood on the tilled ground where his second solar project in town is under construction, watching Wilkinson’s...
View ArticleGB attorney, town moderator, firefighter Edward McCormick suffers heart attack
Great Barrington — The condition of prominent attorney and volunteer firefighter Edward McCormick remains unknown at this time after a spokesperson for Baystate Medical Center in Springfield refused to...
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RSYP Culinary Arts dinner showcases future chefs
Stockbridge — Deep within the Red Lion Inn, the kitchen hums with work and music, and vats of stock and chicken potpie filling bubble along with cauldrons and ovens full of other comforting wonders. It...
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