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Let the Great Barrington budget battle begin: Town operating costs up 1.3...
Great Barrington — As the cost of employing actual human beings and keeping up with infrastructure continues to drive up town and school budgets, officials and townsfolk occasionally erupt in...
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State places Eagleton School on probation; 9 staff members reportedly fired
Great Barrington — The state’s continued scrutiny of the embattled Eagleton School for developmentally disabled boys and young men recently lead to another round of firings, bringing the total to 14,...
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Bowing to public outrage, School Committee restores funding for arts, music...
Great Barrington — After a “challenging” school Finance Committee meeting on Wednesday (March 2) in which members scoured the budget for ways to restore most of its previous budget cuts to school...
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State report charges Eagleton School administration with ‘systemic’ cover-up...
Great Barrington — A state order to protect children and impose sanctions in response to a criminal investigation into emotional and physical abuse of Eagleton School students documents a pattern of...
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Richmond attorney, Andrea Harrington, seeks Senate seat as a ‘progressive...
West Stockbridge — Democratic state senate candidate and Berkshire County native Andrea Harrington told a supporters and the press this morning that she can get the job done in this district as a...
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Kyle Bailey, driver in fatal Easter weekend crash, sentenced to 4 years in jail
Kyle Bailey, 23, of Glendale, the driver in the fatal crash. Pittsfield — The 23-year-old Glendale man whose passenger was killed in a drunken driving accident over Easter weekend in Great Barrington...
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On the toxic trail of PCB pollution with eco-warrior Tim Gray
Pittsfield — Tim Gray says he’s pretty sure his phones are tapped, and knows for a fact he is followed from time to time when he drives near the former General Electric Company’s plant here. “GE cars...
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For love of the Housatonic River, a cross-state trek on behalf of clean water...
Stockbridge — Denny Alsop is about to give a gift to the Housatonic River, and rivers everywhere, without using money or anything else except the spirit of odyssey and love, using a white canoe as a...
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Housatonic Water Works violates DEP monitoring rules; seeks 34 percent rate...
Housatonic — As the state Department of Public Utilities (DPU) entertains a 34 percent rate increase for Housatonic Water Works’ (HWW) 1,400 customers, the state Department of Environmental Protection...
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Hundreds protest General Electric’s proposed PCB dumps
Housatonic — They packed the church to declare holy war on the General Electric Company’s plan to dump toxic PCB sludge dredged from the Housatonic River into three proposed landfills, one them in the...
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State revokes Eagleton School licenses; school to shut down
Great Barrington — The state on Thursday (March 17) said in a memorandum it had decided to shut down Eagleton School after a criminal investigation into allegations of abuse and neglect of its disabled...
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Kinder Morgan pipeline project scorns state constitution, could set precedent
Sandisfield — Deep in the woods in this town of 800 people near the Connecticut border, an energy giant has already made a chess move that might wipe out a large swath of state-protected forest so it...
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Great Barrington budget warm-up: Fire Department takes heat, school debate...
Great Barrington — Fire Chief Charlie Burger was in the hot seat last night (March 23) as members of the Finance Committee grilled him over a request for $110,000 to hire new staff to help with...
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New identity, new name for 20 Railroad in Great Barrington; reopening in May
Great Barrington — As a number of downtown businesses shuffle around, leave, or regroup, one mainstay on Railroad Street is moving into the care of some new and experienced hands. Laura Shack, who owns...
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Great Barrington’s school assessment comes under fire as Selectboard, Finance...
Great Barrington — The Finance Committee and Selectboard last night (March 28) put their final touches on the town’s 2017 operating and capital budgets, which are ready to go to May 9 Annual Town...
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Clean Water Canoe campaign at Pittsfield, onward to Boston and General Electric
Pittsfield — He arrived in a cold driving rainstorm Monday morning (March 28), small as he pushed his way up a swift swelling river whose magnificence, legend and problems seem so much larger than one...
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Matt Tannenbaum’s Bookstore: 40 years serving writers and readers
Lenox — Matthew Tannenbaum says if you come to The Bookstore here on Housatonic Street you won’t leave without a joke or a story from him, along with whatever you bought after he shows you a poem, or...
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Eagle Mill project clears major hurdle; still awaits upgrade to Lee water system
Lee — After an arduous trek through thickets of state and federal bureaucracy, Eagle Mills developer Jeffrey Cohen believes he may have reached a clearing last week when the National Park Service said...
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Berkshire judge says pipeline giant Kinder Morgan can’t ignore state...
Pittsfield — Though Kinder Morgan subsidiary Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company wants to hurry into a constitutionally protected and rare, old-growth area of Otis State Forest in Sandisfield to start...
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Great Barrington Police Department honors retiring officers and citizen heroes
Great Barrington — There wasn’t a dry eye at the Mason Library Tuesday evening (April 5) at an inaugural Police Department ceremony to honor two retiring, longtime officers and three women who acted...
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