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Eagleton School closes after licenses revoked; students being relocated
Great Barrington — After Eagleton School was told its licenses will be revoked over what the state said was a systemic culture of staff abuse of the school’s disabled male students and subsequent...
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SBRSD School Committee: No penalty for opting out of standardized tests
Sheffield — The Southern Berkshire Regional School District (SBRSD) School Committee made a bold move Thursday night (April 7) when it passed a resolution pledging that parents and students will not be...
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren calls for Kinder Morgan to be denied permit for...
Washington — Massachusetts U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren last week wrote a strongly worded letter to Wendi Weber, Regional Director of U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, urging the agency to stop Kinder...
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Hip hop artist Jackson Whalan: Sensitive new age guy
Housatonic — Berkshires-born hip hop artist and producer Jackson Whalan says its not always the big bad city that stokes his work, but rather being here, closer to nature, that helps him create, and...
View ArticleTo refill town coffers GB Selectboard ponders 5-cent gas tax
Great Barrington — As the town continues its struggle to keep everything going amid a climate of low state aid and not enough local tax money coming in, and taxpayers, given local incomes levels,...
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Three town fracas: Negotiations to revise Berkshire Hills allocation formula...
Stockbridge — The committee charged with revisiting and possibly changing a 50-year old-agreement that governs how each of the three towns is assessed within the Berkshire Hills Regional School...
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Round 1: Pipeline giant Kinder Morgan vs. Commonwealth (and state Constitution)
Pittsfield — The battle between pipeline goliath Kinder Morgan and the state of Massachusetts over a slice of state-owned land in Sandisfield had its first major go-round in a packed courtroom Friday...
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State puts broadband on hold for rural western Massachusetts
Great Barrington — Millions in state dollars for a broadband communications infrastructure in central and western Massachusetts, deemed essential for economic development, was locked down by the...
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Kinder Morgan suspends work on $3.3 billion Northeast Direct gas pipeline
Houston — In a prepared statement, gas pipeline giant Kinder Morgan, Inc. with subsidiary Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company said it is suspending the $3.3 billion Northeast Energy Direct (NED) project...
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Two Eagleton School employees arraigned on further charges of abuse, witness...
Pittsfield — Two employees of Eagleton School were arraigned Monday (April 25) in Berkshire Superior Court in the midst of an ongoing criminal investigation into allegations of staff abuse of students...
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Gas pipeline through Otis State Forest on hold – for now
Boston — Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s office told state legislators Saturday (April 23) that a decision by Judge John Agostini in the Sandisfield pipeline case, where natural gas...
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Grand jury indicts 4 more former Eagleton School employees on multiple abuse...
Pittsfield — Grand jury indictments have landed four more former Eagleton School employees in Berkshire Superior Court this week in a criminal abuse and cover-up scandal that isn’t going away after the...
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Michael’s liquor license suspended 50 days as a result of fatal car crash
Stockbridge — Michael’s Restaurant had its liquor license suspended today (April 27) for a total of 50 days by the Board of Selectmen because last April it served liquor to two men who, less than 17...
View ArticleGary Cane, local veterinarian, killed as train hits his car on Maple Avenue
Editor’s note: this story was updated with new information from Great Barrington Police Chief William Walsh on Friday April 29 at 1:08 pm Great Barrington — Police say they are still trying to piece...
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Let the planting begin: Trees return to Main Street
Great Barrington — The trees are back. Well, almost. After widespread despair since 32 beautiful but troublesome Bradford pears and some other “bad trees” were removed last spring during the state’s...
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Nine more Eagleton School staffers charged with abuse, intimidation
Great Barrington — A chilling set of criminal abuse complaints led to another eight arrests of former Eagleton School employees who were arraigned Monday (May 2) in Southern Berkshire District Court,...
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New ‘tea party’ urges rejection of school budget at Great Barrington Town...
Great Barrington — A group of residents, calling themselves the “Green Tea Party” and who say they are organizing a push for economic and community vitality, are taking a controversial position on the...
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Former Eagleton School administrator charged with misleading police
James Yeaman, former Eagleton School program director. Pittsfield — The first Eagleton School administrator to be charged in the midst of an ongoing criminal investigation and arrest sweep over...
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Berkshire Hills hires financial consultant to advise 3-town negotiations
Editor’s note: this article was updated on Friday, May 6 Stockbridge — Given what appears to be an impending stalemate between town representatives attempting to overhaul the formula by which the three...
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Eight CPA projects worth $776,000 before GB voters at Town Meeting
Great Barrington — If the town’s voters agree, Windy Hill Farms apple orchard on Route 7 will forever be out of the reach of developers. At Monday’s (May 9) Annual Town Meeting the Community...
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