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Four desperate towns make broadband pact, pitch MBI for funds
Lee — Drive by the Sandisfield library at night, even during a snowstorm, and the parking lot is filled with parents waiting in idling cars while their children do homework inside because it’s the only...
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Berkshire Regional Planning Commission: Region faces third-world...
Pittsfield — Without fiber optic networks, very high speeds, state regulation of the telecommunications industry and a swift, large-scale investment in a broadband infrastructure, Berkshire County and...
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Large solar project hits GB zoning roadblock, heads to ZBA for appeal
Great Barrington — Another large commercial solar array proposed for 10 to 12 acres of a 20-acre agricultural lot on West Plain Road ran into a roadblock with the building inspector over town zoning...
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As Trump takes aim at sanctuary cities, Great Barrington may make itself one
Great Barrington — The town may soon have more detailed policy language that identifies it as a sanctuary city after a resident said she would consider creating a town citizens’ petition so that the...
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Great Barrington approves amended school funding, finance reform, and...
Great Barrington — At a special town meeting, voters tonight (January 26) passed an amended Berkshire Hills Regional School District agreement, endorsed support for an education finance reform bill,...
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Housing Authority meeting reveals struggles between tenants and board
Housatonic — It was Barbara Heaphy’s last meeting as executive director for the Great Barrington Housing Authority, and it wasn’t easy. At the Jan. 19 meeting at Flag Rock Village, from left: outgoing...
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Steiner School says it was blindsided by solar array plan next door as town...
Great Barrington — A proposed commercial solar project that prompted the town to start writing solar zoning regulations has run up against another snag because of its residential/agricultural location...
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Communication meltdown has school scrambling over neighbor’s solar plan
Great Barrington — The owner of the energy company proposing a commercial solar array on a residential/agricultural parcel 400 feet from the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School nursery and...
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Amid regional broadband crisis, a tiny town is about to speed up
Mt. Washington — While the entire region limps along with slow Internet speeds, some exasperated towns have found a way though the broadband jungle. Mt. Washington Town Hall, where residents voted...
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Great Barrington ‘Trust Policy’ for sanctuary status to go before voters in May
Great Barrington — One week after Boston mayor Marty Walsh said he’d harbor undocumented people in his office at City Hall and just a day after three states, including Massachusetts, sued the Trump...
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School and farmer, both on economic tightwire, work through solar dilemma
Great Barrington — It is a rural tale of a farmer, struggling financially like most farmers, and a nonprofit school, struggling financially like most nonprofit schools. Both now find themselves in a...
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MassDEP approves remediation plan for 100 Bridge St. development
Great Barrington — The owners of the former New England Log Homes site on Bridge Street got a green light this week to move forward with plans to remediate and cap toxic soil at a site that has long...
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A ‘funeral’ for conservation, as pipeline goliath Kinder Morgan acquires...
Pittsfield — Inside the courthouse, the financial deal was sealed. Outside, there was coffin, pallbearers, a procession, a eulogy. There was a funeral. Because today was the day the Commonwealth and...
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Berkshire-based writer’s script to come to BIFF this week
Ashley Falls — While most screenwriters are stuck in traffic on the 405 in L.A. on the way to a pitch meeting, Maria Nation is on her farm feeding her donkeys, horses, dogs and feral cats before she...
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Koladza Airport owners plan expansion but the neighbors disapprove
Great Barrington — In a rural residential area surrounded by corn and hay fields and rolling vistas, owners of what is now a small-town airport have expansion plans that have neighbors flooding town...
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ZBA ruling backs building inspector on solar ruling; solar project on farm...
Great Barrington — The Zoning Board of Appeals was put to a hard test this week. Wednesday’s ZBA hearing (February 8) was overflowing with people wondering whether the board would back the building...
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In response to criticism, CDC modifies affordable housing plans for GB...
Great Barrington — After finally getting clearance from the state to prepare a brownfield for affordable housing and other future development, the Community Development Corporation of South Berkshire...
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Salisbury Bank robbed; thief escapes with ‘small’ amount of cash
Great Barrington — A man in a grey hoodie and no weapon robbed Salisbury Bank at 210 Main Street today (Monday, February 13). No one was hurt. Great Barrington Police Chief William Walsh told The Edge...
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As rumors of roundup swirl through immigrant community, ICE officials deny a...
Great Barrington — Unconfirmed reports shooting through Facebook last week that six undocumented Great Barrington residents were arrested by immigration authorities and taken away from their...
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GB Selectboard hears opposing pleas from pilots, neighbors over airport...
Great Barrington — It’s an 86-year-old small-town airport smack in the middle of an idyllic rural residential area that, to some, should stay the same and, to others, should be improved and expanded....
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