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Two complex ballots for voters on November 4
Great Barrington – Gore Vidal said decadent societies produce decadent language, and “…words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.” Hopefully,...
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Middle schoolers learn the joy of cooking, and much more
Great Barrington – There wasn’t a Cheez Doodle in sight. Hard to imagine in a room full of middle-schoolers, but these students had discovered the joy of cooking from scratch and snacking on good,...
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Disinformation campaign seeks to sway Monument renovation vote
Great Barrington — Talk about mischief… Just in time for Halloween, some opponents of the Monument Mountain High School Renovation project are whipping up scare tactics and political antics, including...
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Great Barrington voters derail Monument Mountain High School renovation — again
Great Barrington – For the second year in a row Great Barrington voters squashed the plan to renovate 48-year old Monument Mountain Regional High School by solidly defeating both the $51 million cost...
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Berkshire Hills at crossroads: What’s next for Monument Mountain?
The dust is still settling after November 4 when voters in Great Barrington torpedoed the Monument Regional High School renovation ship by a 556 vote margin — for a second year in a row. Yet as the sun...
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Berkshire Hills seeks innovative alternatives to standardized testing
Imagine a realm where your progress as a student is judged by much more than standardized test scores, and where support for your interests and strengths harnesses your achievement power. That realm...
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Great Barrington Town Hall briefs
Grant to assess Reid Cleaners site At the Selectboard’s session this week, Town Manager Jennifer Tabakin credited State Rep. William “Smitty” Pignatelli (D-Lenox) for helping Great Barrington get a...
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Bart Elsbach, Fairgrounds developer, arrested and charged with vandalism
Great Barrington – Former Sheffield Zoning Board of Appeals Chairman and Great Barrington Fairground developer Bart Elsbach was arrested and charged Monday night with one count of vandalizing property...
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Berkshire Center for Justice: Legal services for the disenfranchised
Great Barrington – Vera and her husband gave a contractor $4,000 for roofing materials before he was to start work. The contractor never got the materials, never began the work and was never heard from...
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Students promote peace in the Mideast — through music
Sheffield — During last summer’s 72-hour ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, 18 Israeli and Palestinian teenagers managed to get visas and haul themselves all the way to Great Barrington. They came to...
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Barrington Finance Committee supports petition to revise school district...
Great Barrington – Two weeks following the defeat of the Monument Mountain Regional High School renovation plan at the hands of Great Barrington voters, two project opponents have approached the town...
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$40 million commercial, residential development slated for Log Homes site
Great Barrington – Twenty years after New England Log Homes, Inc. went belly up on Bridge Street, the polluted eyesore left behind by the company is soon to be an uber-sustainable, ecologically...
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MSBA: No accelerated repairs money for Monument Mountain High School
Great Barrington – It was a revelatory thunderbolt shot down onto taxpayers last night from the gods of state money: It appears Berkshire Hills Regional School District won’t get a dime under the...
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Door shut on ‘accelerated repair’ for Monument Mountain High School
Stockbridge – An email from the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) to Berkshire Hills Regional School Superintendent Peter Dillon meant what it said, an MSBA spokesman wrote Monday,...
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Town Hall Briefs: Housatonic School for sale; solar project on track
Housatonic School is for sale — RFP in the works Great Barrington — Following in the footsteps of the old Searles School, the former Housatonic School may soon be on its way to filling town coffers....
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Tale from the crypt: The Wetherbee Vault, a CPA candidate
Great Barrington — From a safe distance, one would never know the Wetherbee Vault in the Mahaiwe Cemetery is about to collapse. For unless one absolutely must, one may choose not to get close enough to...
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Housatonic School on the block — again
Housatonic — It is a stately stone stalwart of education, set into the heart of a village and built in the style that served as a metaphor for what — near the turn of the last century in America — was...
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Sean Macken, grandson of civil rights leader, honored for his ethic of service
Great Barrington — In the mid-1960’s, Housing and Urban Development senior advisor Lloyd Davis moved to an all-white Chevy Chase, Maryland neighborhood with his new bride Mary Palmer. Two disapproving...
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Berkshires march for justice and humanity scheduled for Sunday in Pittsfield
Pittsfield – Berkshire County residents will have an opportunity this Sunday, December 7, to protest the recent grand jury decisions that dismissed criminal charges against police officers in the...
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Four projects miss CPA deadline — by minutes. Now what?
Great Barrington — Just when the Community Preservation Committee thought all applications for Community Preservation Act funding had been turned in at the December 1, 4 p.m. deadline, they had a...
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