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Town Finance Committee seeks role in regional school district budget process
Great Barrington — The Finance Committee may soon get their way with the Berkshire Hills Regional School District’s administration, if the voters of Great Barrington agree. Tuesday night (January 20)...
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Vito’s toxic venture: The story of New England Log Homes
Great Barrington – I once loved a man who lived in a log home in the far reaches of rural Colorado. It sat snug and content amid crooked miners’ cabins and western Victorian architecture, in a town...
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Planning Board encourages ZBA to protect Housatonic water supply
Great Barrington — The Planning Board last week (January 22) voted unanimously to send a strong recommendation to the Zoning Board of Appeals to uphold a town code that protects a vital reservoir, and...
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Rising electricity rates explained: Blackmail for gas pipeline
Great Barrington — It is the winter of our disillusionment here in the cold north, given the mega hike in electricity rates, and the possible — some say, likely — motive behind higher rates. Great...
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Pipeline giant, Kinder Morgan, invests in 1Berkshire business, cultural alliance
Pittsfield — An energy giant in the midst of developing and seeking regulatory approval for a controversial $5 billion gas pipeline project that would run through part of northern Berkshire County is a...
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Magadini to ‘surrender’ in District Court, unless appeal succeeds
Great Barrington — David Magadini, the itinerant inhabitant of downtown, has been placed on pre-trial probation for his two most recent trespassing violations, and, according to his appeals attorney,...
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Berkshire Hills struggles with plan for aging Monument High building
Great Barrington — The Berkshire Hills School Committee is attempting to address Monument Mountain Regional High School’s failing infrastructure amid a challenging economic and political landscape...
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Great Barrington Town Hall briefs
A welcome to two new police officers Police Chief William Walsh introduces Officers Dalton Griffin and Ryan Storti. Great Barrington — Police Chief William Walsh introduced two new police officers to...
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Barrington Selectboard approves plan to revise district school agreement
Great Barrington — The Selectboard last night (February 9) voted unanimously to give Berkshire Hills Regional School District(BHRSD) permission to form a three-town committee that would work to bring...
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Great Barrington ZBA upholds order protecting water supply
Great Barrington — In a packed, tension-filled Town Hall meeting room the Zoning Board of Appeals (ZBA) last night (February 10) voted 6 to 1 to uphold Building Inspector Edwin May’s December 2014...
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Berkshire Hills to cut teaching staff, programs in 2016 budget
Great Barrington — The Berkshire Hills Regional School District, faced with unavoidable increases in insurance rates, salaries and benefits, utilities and transportation costs and confronting fierce...
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Great Barrington Farmers’ Market returns to downtown
Great Barrington — The Great Barrington Farmers’ Market has announced a new, central downtown location for the 2015 season after one season at the Great Barrington Fairgrounds (GBFG), and many previous...
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GB ‘Spot Saver’ parking program for Main Street Reconstruction launches this...
Great Barrington — In an effort to free up downtown parking for shoppers during the coming spring round of the Main Street Reconstruction Project, a parking task force has come up with a voluntary...
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Five Southern Berkshire towns to vote on $7.7 million in repairs to high school
Sheffield — Special town meeting dates are set for each of the five towns in the Southern Berkshire Regional School District to vote on spending up to $7.7 million for the replacement of Mt. Everett...
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New bylaws to free Housatonic of outdated, restrictive zoning
Great Barrington — When zoning came to the Village of Housatonic in 1960, three-quarters of the village’s properties were suddenly thrown out of compliance with zoning regulations, making it expensive...
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Great Barrington Town Hall briefs
Petitions for school changes ‘Advisory Only’ Great Barrington — Five petitions submitted to the Town for inclusion on the May 4 Town Meeting warrant, and which pertain to the Berkshire Hills Regional...
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In budget decisions, BHRSD School Committee between a rock and Great Barrington
Great Barrington — Lamenting poor turnout at meetings, Berkshire Hills Regional School Committee Chair Stephen Bannon once said that when the committee proposes budget cuts that affect students, people...
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The hydrants of Housatonic: Are they adequate in case of fire?
Great Barrington — I’ve never given much thought to fire hydrants beyond noting those tender moments when my dog is wooed by their charms. Yet I take comfort in knowing we have them. In fact, I am so...
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Mt. Everett robotics team wins 3rd state championship
Sheffield — There is something endearing about a robot. Perhaps the delightful R2D2 from Star Wars has sunk into our consciousness; it is not hard to see why one could form an attachment to such a...
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Community push-back saves art, kindergarten programs at Berkshire Hills — for...
Great Barrington — The high school art teacher and the Early Kindergarten program are among a number of proposed programming cuts that are back in the game after the Berkshire Hills Regional School...
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