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As Nov. 4 vote nears, campaign for renovation kicks into high gear
Great Barrington — A bouquet of wildflowers sat at John Krahm’s place on the Berkshire Hills Regional School District School Committee during last Thursday night’s (September 18) meeting in the library...
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Lenox ponders: How will $600 million PCB cleanup impact town?
Lenox – It was either “no action,” or anywhere up to 52 years of action, to the tune of almost a billion dollars. Those were the range of options confronting General Electric after the company signed a...
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Town Hall report: July storms generate overtime
The Great Barrington Selectboard and Finance Committee met Monday night (September 22) in joint session to approve a transfer of money from the reserve fund to pay Highway Department overtime for...
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First Reconstruction project casualty: Phone lines
Great Barrington – Residents and businesses, primarily on the west side of Main Street — including Town Hall — lost phone and internet service Tuesday after a Berkshire Gas contractor, installing a...
View ArticleSouth Berkshire parents alerted to attempted child abduction
The first email came last Thursday, September 18, from Mt. Everett Regional High School Principal Glenn Devoti. A white male in a silver, four-door sedan with blue and white New York plates may have...
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News bits & bytes: Bannon earns public service award; Run for the Hills;...
Steve Bannon: Public Service Superstar The world is filled with people who give their free time to what they care about. And there are some who do it consistently for years and years, even while...
View ArticleDavid Magadini, guilty of trespassing, sentenced to 30 days
Pittsfield – On Monday (September 29), a jury of six in Central Berkshire District Court found Great Barrington resident David Magadini guilty of 7 counts of trespassing, according to the District...
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Future school consolidation: The drawbacks and benefits
With little more than a month until the November 4 vote on the revised proposal for a $51 million renovation of Monument Mountain Regional High School, public debate over the project has become crowded...
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Five town boards mull remedies for Lake Mansfield Road
Great Barrington – Lake Mansfield Road is crumbling. The very sub-structure of the road is weak and deteriorating. And like all New England roads the freeze and thaw cycle does a number on it every...
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Bits & Bytes: St.James Place/Taconic Ave. detour
Great Barrington –Those seeking to reach downtown via Alford Road and Taconic Avenue or headed in the opposite direction toward Fairview Hospital or Bard College at Simon’s Rock will find themselves...
View Article10th annual FODfest celebrates life of slain journalist Daniel Pearl
Sheffield – October 10 would have been journalist Daniel Pearl’s 51st birthday. The Sheffield-based nonprofit Music in Common will present the 10th Annual FODfest (Friends of Danny Festival) in...
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District vetted alternative plans, Monument renovation advocates insist
Great Barrington — Advocates of the Monument Mountain Regional High School renovation project held a training session at Crissey Farm last Tuesday to sharpen the swords of warrior outreach in advance...
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Bits and Bytes: Gilded Age in coaches; Waldorf changes its name
Polished harnesses and coaches, superbly groomed horses, formally attired whips and passengers — what more could you want? For three days beginning on Saturday, October 11, the horsemen will gather in...
View ArticleBits & Bytes: Farm-to-table pioneer Judy Wicks; Monterey OctoberFest
Great Barrington – Judy Wicks, who has been called the “Alice Waters of the Northeast” for her pioneering role in the farm-to-table movement will deliver a public talk on Friday, October 10, at the...
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Bits & Bytes: Race against time; Texas writer headin’ north
Great Barrington – Don’t stay out too late Saturday night. Otherwise, you won’t be able to get up Sunday morning to run for some fellow humans who really need it — those with Duchenne muscular...
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Preservation dilemma: Worthy projects, not enough money
Great Barrington — The Community Preservation Committee finds itself in a pretty pickle. Twenty-one applicants are seeking a total of $2.7 million of Community Preservation Act (CPA) funding. But the...
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Finance Committee looks to split rate, residential exemption to reduce...
Great Barrington – We can’t do much about death, but we might be able to change the tax structure. So says Great Barrington Finance Committee member Michael Wise, still in the first year of his term....
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Barrington Selectboard endorses Monument High School renovation
Great Barrington – Amid a few bouts of heckling from several members of the audience at a sparsely attended meeting Tuesday night (October 14) the Selectboard endorsed the Monument Mountain Regional...
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Iredale to sell Searles complex, creating new commercial district
The commercial center of downtown Great Barrington could very well be about to expand — to the east. The former Searles Middle School complex on Bridge Street is finally off the town’s hands and into...
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Playing to an empty house, candidates discuss school renovation, Core curriculum
Great Barrington – On a dark and drizzly Tuesday night, the Claire Teague Senior Center was like that forest where a tree falls and nobody ever hears it. Except this was a candidate’s forum for the...
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