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Landowners, environmentalists appeal Kinder Morgan gas pipeline’s ‘water...
Sandisfield — With nine days left until Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company (TGP) can begin clearing a swath of Otis State Forest for its new pipeline project, some of the town’s landowners, along with...
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Balancing Act at Umpachene Falls: Stone artist captivates the Berkshires
New Marlborough — A woman stands in the water wearing Georgian-era attire. Another sits on a nearby throne, balancing her swaddled infant, a young child beneath her. It feels like a village, or maybe...
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Main Street ‘flying church’ not yet at heaven’s gate
Great Barrington — Flying church developer Paul Joffe says we can all stop worrying. Plenty of work, he says, is and has been underway at the 150-year-old former Methodist church on Main Street that,...
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Great Barrington may host the Berkshires’ first medical marijuana dispensary
Great Barrington — The Selectboard voted unanimously Monday (July 25) in support of the construction and operation of a medicinal marijuana dispensary at 394 Stockbridge Rd., in a vacant lot between...
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CDC makes case for 100 Bridge Street project; ZBA mulls affordable housing...
Great Barrington — It was a long, hot night in a packed Town Hall meeting room as the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) Tuesday (July 26) tried to come to grips with a $12 million affordable housing plan...
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Bridge Street to see major improvements by summer’s end
Great Barrington — The replacement of a 107-year-old water main under Bridge Street, which has resulted in the periodic closure of portions of the thoroughfare between Main and East streets for the...
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Tennessee Gas pipeline begins work; surveyors chart path through forest
Sandisfield — The week before the end of a court-imposed waiting period on pipeline work here, Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company surveyors were out in Otis State Forest preparing for tree cutting and...
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In an eddy of controversy artist dismantles his Konkapot River sculptures
New Marlborough — When the busload of Japanese tourists entered Umpachene Falls Park here last Saturday, the marvel of balanced stones that enchanted the Berkshires this summer had already been taken...
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Phased environmental remediation of 100 Bridge St. not yet approved
Great Barrington — The fate of a heavily polluted 8-acre site on Bridge Street may hinge on whether the state Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) says the land can be remediated partially...
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PROFILE: State Senate candidate Andrea Harrington, campaigning for working...
Great Barrington — Andrea Harrington wore red the morning she met me at Rubi’s here for an interview, a color appropriate right now as this 41-year-old attorney and Democratic Senate candidate enters...
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Town fees for medical marijuana dispensary? Stanton says charge pharmacies, too
Great Barrington — When the Selectboard two weeks ago voted to not oppose the construction and operation of a medical marijuana dispensary on Stockbridge Road, it hadn’t yet entertained an agreement...
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Douglass Truth in performance: Making a comedy of death
Great Barrington — At 63, Doug Truth keeps on surprising himself. “I was never into theatre or painting,” says the performance artist and painter, back in the Berkshires from California with his show...
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Settlement in Housatonic Water Works rate hike: 30 percent over two years
Great Barrington — Water bills in Housatonic will rise, but not as steeply as they would have without the intervention of outraged residents, and especially Town Hall. After returning from an...
View ArticleGreat Barrington Police Officer stopped for drunk driving
Sheffield — A Great Barrington police officer was stopped Saturday night (August 20) for “erratic operation appearing to be that of [drunk] driver,” according to the Sheffield Police Department. He was...
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Police logs detail OUI incidents in Sheffield, Great Barrington
Sheffield — An examination of the Sheffield Police Department’s log over the last month shows two instances of drunk motorists stopped by police, who rather than citing or arresting them, helped them...
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Becket selectboard rejects medical marijuana facility after Yokum Pond...
Becket — It was clear from the start that Ipswich Pharmaceutical Associates, Inc. didn’t stand a chance, even in a town where 76 percent of its residents voted to approve statewide medical marijuana,...
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Incidents of drinking and driving by GB police symptom of deeper problem,...
Great Barrington — Several sources close to members of both the Great Barrington (GBPD) and Sheffield Police Departments (SPD) have told the Edge in a face-to-face interview that the partying habits —...
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Democratic state Senate candidates draw crowd to Mahaiwe
Great Barrington — Tonight’s Democratic candidates forum at the Mahaiwe Theater hit upon all Berkshire County’s big issues: economic development, school transportation funding, population decline, the...
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New concept, new look, new life for top of Railroad Street in Great Barrington
Great Barrington — As a handful of businesses continue to re-shuffle around town and the dust has settled after Main Street was torn apart and reconstructed last year, very quietly, at the top of...
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Duet on Main Street: Louisa Ellis, Iredale Cosmetics to partner at former...
Great Barrington — In a continuation of downtown reshufflings, the former Tune Street music and electronics store at the corner of Main and Railroad streets is about to be the new home of Louisa Ellis...
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