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Castle Street firehouse owner begins redevelopment work at last — on alleyway
The former town firehouse is also in desperate need of an overhaul, and conditions are unsafe. The town now pays rent to Borshoff to house the health and building inspectors’ offices. Photo: Heather...
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SoCo partners with Sprout Brothers for juice bar, to make an Oasis
Great Barrington — When the warm weather leaves, it’s harder to sell ice cream but easy to sell organic juice. SoCo Creamery is betting on that in its partnership with Oasis Juice Lab, opening Thursday...
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Berkshire Hills School Committee candidates agree: Bold financing reforms...
Great Barrington — Three of four candidates running for the town’s three open school committee seats appear to know very well the economic struggles faced by the area’s rural regional schools and the...
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Fourteen-acre sculpture park taking shape in West Stockbridge
West Stockbridge — This little town is about to hit the map as an important sculpture collection and a poetic meeting of contemporary architecture and landscape design is worked into a 14-acre slice of...
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Preservation effort underway for A.M.E. Zion Church, first African-American...
Fran O’Neill lives across from the church and was a congregant for 50 years. Photo: Heather Bellow Great Barrington — Fran O’Neill will do anything for the Clinton A.M.E. Zion Church building across...
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Lynching threat reveals racial tension among Monument teens
Great Barrington — A lynching threat reportedly made by a white student to an African-American student last month is purported to have been provoked by a racially charged social media fight between the...
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Great Barrington woman arrested after Berkshire Bank drive-thru incident
Great Barrington — A Great Barrington woman was arrested Wednesday (November 2) after she handed a Berkshire Bank drive-thru teller a deposit slip indicating an armed man was in the car, police say....
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Woman who gave bank teller fake distress note is arraigned, denies writing note
It remains a mystery why Eloisa Garcia-Gaspar wrote the note on her deposit slip. Great Barrington — A Great Barrington woman who police say gave a Main Street bank drive-thru teller a fake distress...
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Local physician, addiction specialist: Drugs, alcohol permanently impair teen...
Great Barrington — In a county with a higher than national average rate of teen substance use, an increasing opioid problem, and high drinking rates all around, physicians and community groups are...
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MassDEP says no to proposed cleanup strategy at 100 Bridge Street site
Great Barrington — In what is yet another hitch for redevelopment of the contaminated former New England Log Homes site on Bridge Street, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection...
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Historic African-American church building on the road to salvation
Great Barrington — Prayers for the Clinton A.M.E. Zion Church are that much closer to being answered. Ever since a call went out last week to save the deteriorating, historic, 1880s-built Clinton...
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Early election roundup: Hinds wins Senate seat; voters approve legalizing...
Great Barrington — It was a very, very long day of angst and nail biting in our Democrat-leaning Berkshires. Democratic State Senate candidate Adam Hinds won the seat held by outgoing Sen. Benjamin...
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New members of South Berkshire school committees face daunting challenges
Great Barrington — The school committee elections on November 8 in two neighboring school districts are bringing new blood into the schools at a critical time of funding crises due to reduced state...
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It’s Marshall’s … plus … at former Kmart complex; Planning Board approves
Great Barrington — A Marshall’s store going into the current Kmart location in Barrington Plaza as early as fall 2017 may attract as many as two more chain stores in the former Kmart complex that had...
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GB business shuffle: NEXT! Select Consignment moves to new location
Great Barrington — A bit of panic ensued when loyal customers of NEXT! Select Consignment went to the store’s old location on South Main Street not realizing owner Faith DiVecchio had packed the shop...
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Housatonic solar field reduces power costs for Great Barrington, Cheshire
Housatonic — On roughly five acres off Van Deusenville Road, a massive earthworks project is underway for a solar farm that will generate electric bill credits for the towns of Great Barrington and...
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Residents challenge rate hike in neglected West Stockbridge trailer park
West Stockbridge — Bad roads and mega potholes, overgrown and dead trees, numerous water issues and waftings of septic scents. For residents of Mill Pond Trailer Park, located off Route 41 north of the...
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Keene family gives Egremont barn creative incarnation: Music venue and cafe
Egremont — It’s a Friday night in this little village and I’m in an old barn sitting at a table not but a few twirls away from an extraordinary musical act. The cozy fireplace nook at The Barn. Photo...
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Local immigrants, living in fear, since election of Donald Trump
Note: All names have been changed in this story. Great Barrington — Seven years ago Luis walked the desert for a full week without food or water to cross into Arizona from Mexico. That was after a...
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Stanton stands with Standing Rock; catering crew to feed 500 for Thanksgiving
Great Barrington — As the fight to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline grows more entrenched and violent at Standing Rock Indian Reservation, a team from the Berkshires is packing up equipment and heading...
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