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250 join ‘Stop the (PCB) Dumps’ march at General Electric’s Housatonic site
Housatonic — The old adage that fiction imitates life is right now staring down the Berkshires, like the great eye of the dark lord Sauron casting out to the Shire with its golden children and...
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Great Barrington Town Meeting rejects school budget, setting up district...
Great Barrington — For the first time in recent memory, the Berkshire Hills Regional School District’s $25 million budget went down to defeat at Great Barrington’s Annual Town Meeting May 9 by vote of...
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Judge grants Tennessee Gas Pipeline eminent domain over protected Otis State...
Pittsfield — In a May 9 ruling that demonstrates the power of federal laws over those of the states, Superior Court Judge John A. Agostini said Kinder Morgan and its subsidiary, Tennessee Gas Pipeline...
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In GB vote schools lose; town budget, gas tax and preservation projects approved
Great Barrington — Just when the town’s taxpayers, after a long work day, thought they might doze off during Monday’s (May 9) Annual Town Meeting, they were met with a few good shockers that peppered...
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Police Officer Ryan Storti laid to rest, honored by fellow officers and...
Great Barrington — The sky darkened and a cold wind came to town today as if it knew another young man had died on a dark wet Berkshires road, and that today was the day that marked his time on this...
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$10 million lawsuit filed against former Eagleton director Bruce Bona, 7...
Great Barrington — After 17 former employees of the now-shuttered Eagleton School were arraigned over the last few months on criminal charges including abuse of “disabled” students, at least one civil...
View ArticleIn Lenox, no marching band for Memorial Day parades
Editor’s note: In response to this article, Lenox Superintendent Timothy Lee told the Edge that the Lenox Middle School band will play at the beginning and end of the Lenox Memorial Day Parade, and...
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Tiny town of Mt. Washington jumps on broadband bandwagon
Mt. Washington — As frustration mounts over slow internet service in the region, the smallest town in Berkshire County –– and the third smallest in the state –– voted unanimously at a special town...
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Great Barrington Selectboard nixes vote on unified district tax rate
Great Barrington — A proposal to include on an upcoming special town meeting a ballot item requesting the state Legislature enact a measure that would unify the school tax rate paid by the three towns...
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Mill Pond, special needs day school, to lease former Eagleton School campus
Great Barrington — A new program for special needs students Kindergarten through 8th grade will likely come to the former Eagleton School property very soon, and presents an exciting and convenient new...
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Kinder Morgan abandons Northeast Direct pipeline project – for now
Washington — Kinder Morgan’s Northeast Energy Direct (NED) pipeline project appears to be officially dead today after the natural gas goliath’s subsidiary Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. sent a letter to...
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Lack of broadband, training, transportation pose challenges for high-tech...
Great Barrington — At the Chamberlain Group facility on Route 7 south of town Democratic state Senate candidate Adam Hinds is looking into a sinus cavity through a long instrument with a light at the...
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While state agency reboots, Western Massachusetts languishes without...
Great Barrington — Western Massachusetts taxpayers, most of whom compose some of the two percent of Americans who still lack high-speed internet, are collectively gazing eastward, and now beginning to...
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Main Street crosswalk claims 4 more victims in Great Barrington
Great Barrington — An 87-year-old Canaan, Connecticut woman faces criminal charges after the car she was driving today (May 27) hit two women, an 11-month-old baby girl in a stroller, and a...
View ArticleEPA insists off-site disposal of PCB sediment is preferred option
Boston — A status update issued Wednesday (May 25) by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the General Electric’s Company’s cleanup of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from the Housatonic River...
View ArticleGreat Barrington Rotary Club awards $45,000 in college scholarships
Great Barrington — At a Crissey Farm luncheon last Wednesday (May 26) the Great Barrington Rotary Club gave out $45,000 in college scholarship money for over 40 students from Monument Mountain and...
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Now there are four: Del Gallo enters Democratic primary for state Senate seat
Pittsfield — Democratic primary candidate and lawyer Rinaldo Del Gallo III told supporters at his campaign announcement last night that he’s already demonstrated he’s got what it takes to be a state...
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MassDOT refuses to authorize traffic light for ‘safe’ MMRHS driveway junction
Great Barrington — A state report issued four months after a car accident at the notoriously tricky intersection where U.S. Route 7 meets Monument Mountain Regional High School’s driveway says the...
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MBI hires high-priced lawyers, consultants; rural towns wait for broadband...
Westborough — One small peek into the workings of the Massachusetts Broadband Institute (MBI), the state agency tasked with bringing high-speed Internet to economically depressed Western Massachusetts,...
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Phyllis Curtin, beloved opera singer and master vocal teacher, dies at age 94
Great Barrington — At the end of a dirt road, near a turn in the Alford Brook, sits a colonial farmhouse surrounded by forest and flowers and singing birds, a place where acclaimed American soprano and...
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