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Is there still a redeveloped mill complex in Housatonic’s future?
Housatonic — Year after year, decade after decade, we drive past the array of abandoned grand historic mill buildings in this little village – the remnants of a once-thriving fabric industry — and we...
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Developer says no to polluted Ried Cleaners; town should ‘take lead’
Great Barrington — A developer whose offer to buy a heavily polluted property was rejected last year says he won’t consider another stab at it. Mill Renaissance LLC’s Jeffrey Cohen told The Edge that...
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Tennessee Gas to pay state $1.2 million in pipeline-related compensation
Boston — After months of negotiations, Kinder Morgan subsidiary Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company LLC agreed in a settlement to pay the state more than $640,000 for an easement in Otis State Forest, a...
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Horror stories: War correspondent’s ‘Dispatches from Syria’
Great Barrington — She’s been dragged from a car at gunpoint, and marched into the woods, threatened with rape. Some of her friends and colleagues have been kidnapped, others, beheaded. But...
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New Year’s fire destroys Mill River home, family belongings of educators...
Mill River — It is the second time this winter a family lost their home to a catastrophic fire. And yet again, no one was injured. David and Dianna Lupiani and their six sons were away overnight during...
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Music Store to close, crushed by online shopping, local downturn
Great Barrington — The Internet has dealt yet another fatal blow to a local business, and this one will have us all out of tune in a jiffy. The Music Store, which for more than 16 years has kept a very...
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Public now has say about troubled Bridge Street brownfield site
Great Barrington — People now officially have a say in what happens at the contaminated former New England Log Homes site at 100 Bridge St. The site’s owner, Community Development Corporation of South...
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Tennessee Gas pipeline may ‘bulldoze’ sacred Native American sites
Sandisfield — A letter from a Narragansett Indian Tribal official to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) accuses FERC of...
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Pressure MassDEP to restart bioremediation at brownfield site, say activists
Great Barrington — They packed the room, hoping to make something happen, and fast. But, alas, it will take a while. The formal process for giving people information and a voice in what happens at the...
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Former students file suit against BHRSD, former administrators over sex abuse...
Stockbridge — They said their elementary school counselor did things to them in his basement office like putting them on his lap, breathing heavily in their ears, groping their private parts and more...
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Eagle Mills hotel may grow to 85 rooms with potential partnership
Lee — With still more rings of regulatory fire to jump through, the former Eagle Mills complex next to the Housatonic River is getting closer to its final transformation and may now feature a new...
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New Co-op plans challenged by neighbor, Wheeler & Taylor
Wheeler & Taylor attorney Peter Puciloski tells the board his client is concerned about property line issues. Photo: Heather Bellow Great Barrington — Developers of the new Berkshire Co-op Market...
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Great Barrington special town meeting to address school funding options,...
Great Barrington — A Special Town Meeting next week will likely ask voters to weigh in on two issues that have been at the top of local debate and discussion over the last few years: how the three...
View ArticleHousatonic Railroad not at fault, company lawyer says, for fatal April collision
Great Barrington — A lawyer for the Housatonic Railroad Company told The Edge Thursday (January 12) that state police had determined that the railroad was not responsible for the fatal April 2016...
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‘Haven at Night’: From baked goods to Prana Bar
Great Barrington — Uh oh: Now there is bahn mi to be had on Stockbridge Road. I kid you not, whatever may be lacking in the global street food department around here is going to be rectified at Prana...
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18th Annual Interfaith Celebration of legacy and work of Martin Luther King Jr.
Great Barrington — It was a full church on this holy day as both the clergy and community celebrated the man and something he put his heart into in the years before his 1968 assassination: the nuts and...
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Risks to Sheffield water supply from Bridge Street brownfield prompt call for...
Great Barrington — A man stood up in the Town Hall meeting room last summer and told town officials he was concerned about the movement of contaminated groundwater under the 8-acre 100 Bridge Street...
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The Berkshires gear up for Women’s March on Washington and local solidarity...
Pittsfield — The trains are sold out, most of the bus seats are reserved, the women––and men–– are packing their sensible walking shoes, and many a pussy hat is being speed knitted after the girls have...
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Gov. Baker economic secretary ‘surprised’ by criticism of broadband strategy...
Great Barrington — Two days after the publication of a scathing article about how Western Massachusetts is facing economic death at the sword of the state’s broadband approach for rural towns,...
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Sister March at Colonial Theatre draws throngs from across the Berkshires
Pittsfield — The weather was warm as if to help the more than 1,500 Women’s March on Washington sister event marchers waiting their turn to cycle in and out of the Colonial Theatre Saturday (January...
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