Clik here to view.
At Clinton A.M.E. Zion Church fundraising session, sobering racial tension...
Great Barrington — A fundraising meeting Saturday (November 19) convened at the Mason Library for the purchase and restoration of the first African-American church in Berkshire County unexpectedly...
View ArticleFair housing group cracks down on lead paint in rental properties
Holyoke — A lot of people don’t know this, but it is illegal to refuse housing or evict renters with a child under the age of 6 to avoid removing lead paint from the property. Earlier this month, two...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Despite violence, Fire Roasted caterers provide T-giving dinners to 2,500...
Great Barrington — It quickly went from cooking a Thanksgiving dinner for 500, to cooking it for 2,500. A Berkshire’s crew headed into Standing Rock Indian Reservation amid last week’s rising turmoil...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pipeline giant backstabs Sandisfield but faces potentially fatal delays to...
Sandisfield — As soon as Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company saw it was going to get its way in court to clear a section of protected state-owned forest for a new natural gas pipeline, the natural gas...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Great Barrington Police Department first in Berkshire County to be accredited
Great Barrington — Great Barrington Police Department (GBPD) Chief William Walsh told the Selectboard on Monday, Nov. 28, that his is the first police department in Berkshire County to become...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Great Barrington joins North Adams, Pittsfield in offering sanctuary to...
Great Barrington — Undocumented immigrants here can rest easy: the town says its police will treat and help them exactly like everyone else. A resolution released by Town Manager Jennifer Tabakin...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Great Barrington to vote on revised regional school pact
Great Barrington — The Selectboard voted 4-1 on Monday to hold a special town meeting at 6 p.m. on Jan. 26, 2017, at Monument Mountain Regional High School to approve revisions to the Berkshire Hills...
View ArticleClik here to view.
GE restriction hobbles revenue potential for historic Rising Paper Mill
Housatonic — One of the town’s potentially great tax revenue sources was hobbled a decade ago by what appears to be General Electric Company’s (GE) strategy to reduce liability stemming from decades of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
With love and hot soup, a church gets covered
Great Barrington — A biting cold crept in, but fires in the hearts swept it out. That was the mood outside the Clinton A.M.E. Zion Church this afternoon, where a generosity economy group worked to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Former DeSisto School redevelopment proposal shocks Stockbridge selectmen
Stockbridge — It is a delicate tightrope walk in a struggling Berkshires economy: developments that might expand the tax base but that might also encroach on nature, the area’s precious treasure. Case...
View ArticleOven fire at Berkshire Mountain Bakery in Housatonic quickly subdued
Housatonic — The Great Barrington Fire Department responded to a fire at Berkshire Mountain Bakery Wednesday (December 7) at around 11:30 a.m. Employees stood outside while firefighters brought armfuls...
View ArticleClik here to view.
CHP’s Food Bank: Trying to stop ‘spiraling poverty’ with food and help
Great Barrington — The food won’t be handed out until noon, but Ginny Dawson is first in line two hours earlier to make sure she gets what she needs to feed herself and her family. The New Marlborough...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Martin’s Restaurant shuts doors for good, sells to 47 Railroad developers
Workers remove signs at Martin’s Restaurant last week in preparation for the sale to 47 Railroad developers Ian Rasch and Sam Nickerson. Photo: Heather Bellow Great Barrington — A popular and iconic...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Blaze reignites, consuming house on Dresser Avenue, displacing family of seven
Great Barrington — A two-alarm house fire on Dresser Avenue, two doors down from the Mason Library, and one that six fire departments thought was under control Saturday afternoon, reignited Sunday...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Comings and goings: Great Barrington’s commercial evolution
Great Barrington — The evolution — if not revolution — in the town’s downtown business landscape that began last spring has produced its latest mutations when Martin’s restaurant announced last week...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Connecticut may derail hopes for restoring Berkshires-to-Grand Central...
Great Barrington — While it is one powerful bootstrap for the Berkshires to yank itself from its economic doldrums, it appears passenger rail service to and from New York City is far off, if not a long...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Flag Rock resident sues Housing Authority over mold claims
Housatonic — I’m sitting at Ariane Blanchard’s kitchen table with her lawyer when she brings me a Ziploc bag containing a solid chunk of what she says is mold-filled debris. “That’s what came out of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jazz star Craig Harris’ trombone band at MMHRS to honor African-American...
Great Barrington — It is a book of devotional prose that recorded the rhythms and style of African-American preachers of yore, a book written right here in this town, when the rest of America was still...
View ArticleClik here to view.
‘Sanctuary City’? No, but Great Barrington acting like one
Great Barrington — The town’s policy that its police won’t harass or tattle to immigration agents on undocumented residents – that all residents will receive equal treatment – pre-existed a statement...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Back taxes may force polluted Ried Cleaners into town’s hands
Great Barrington — When the pollution runs downhill, so does the money. The Ried Cleaners property is a slice of prime Main Street real estate, one the town is itching to get back on the tax rolls, one...
View Article