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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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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 — A large commercial solar array proposed for 10 to 12 acres of a 20-acre agricultural lot on West Plain Road has run 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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