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CHP loses early intervention program to larger Pittsfield nonprofit
Great Barrington — Community Health Program’s Early Intervention program for developmentally delayed children ages birth to three had to shut its doors last fall after a long-standing state $80,000 per...
View ArticleElsbach given 6 months probation for ‘tagging’ incident
Great Barrington — A Sheffield man who, last fall, defaced machinery belonging to Joe Wilkinson Excavating was given six months probation and has to pay several thousand dollars in restitution and fees...
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Caroline Sprague, MMRHS junior, wins Poetry Out Loud state championship
Great Barrington –– Since her freshman year at Monument Mountain Regional High School, junior Caroline Sprague has worked to pry her way inside Richard Hugo’s poem about attachment to memory, despair,...
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Insult to injury: Town may be evicted from Castle Street firehouse
Great Barrington — Evictions are usually an unwelcome affair. But in the case of the Town and its rental of space in the former firehouse on Castle Street – the very firehouse the town once owned — an...
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Bridge upgrade essential for Bridge Street projects
Great Barrington — Now that Bridge Street is on the cusp of a long-anticipated transformation, with several large developments — one completed, the others still in the planning stages — there’s...
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GB wrestles with ‘unfunded’ liabilities, begins ‘token fund’
Great Barrington — The Selectboard and Finance Committee agreed Wednesday night (March 11) to fund an account for Other Post Employment Benefits (OPEB), after batting the idea around at previous...
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GB Town Hall briefs
Board approves $40,000 request for Lake Mansfield Great Barrington – The Selectboard March 9 approved a $40,000 request for the 2016 capital improvement budget in order to “hire a multi-disciplinary...
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Get ready! Main Street reconstruction is here! Monday, March 23, 7 a.m.
Great Barrington — It would appear that the snowmelt – as little there may seem to have been – has now progressed enough to allow the long anticipated Main Street Reconstruction Project to get under...
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School Committee tables plan to revise district funding formula
Stockbridge — The March 19 session of the Berkshire Hills Regional School Committee was billed as a “meet and confer” conflab. It would be more aptly described as “meet and defer.” For months, Great...
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Mt. Everett Robotics Team: On to World Championship
Sheffield — Even with a cable problem and a few technical snags, the Mt. Everett Robotics Team 3085, “Higgs Bots” as they are known, qualified this past weekend for the FIRST Tech World Championship in...
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Trees down: Great Barrington Main Street Deconstruction
Great Barrington — It is the season of renewal and blossoming, for all but Main Street’s pear trees. A crew from Maxymillian Technologies is busily sawing down the allee of pear trees that for 35 years...
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Critics grumble, have no answers for 2016 Great Barrington budget
Great Barrington — This is how far the climate for public discourse has declined in our sometimes cranky small town bubble: At the March 24 Finance Committee hearing on the fiscal year 2016 budget, one...
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Despite angst, GB Selectboard, Finance Committee endorse 2016 school and town...
Great Barrington — Both the Selectboard and Finance Committee last night (March 25) approved the proposed $10.9 million operating budget and recommended for voter approval at the May 4 Annual Town...
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Despite angst, GB Selectboard, Finance Committee endorse 2016 school and town...
Great Barrington — Both the Selectboard and Finance Committee last night (March 25) approved the proposed $10.9 million operating budget and recommended for voter approval at the May 4 Annual Town...
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Local contractors for high school renovation? Depends on timeline
Great Barrington — For decades, billions of Massachusetts dollars were spent constructing public buildings that were defective and dangerous because the work had been awarded to contractors who, for a...
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July trial date for hit and run incident in front of GB Town Hall
Great Barrington — A Connecticut man who police say injured a woman and destroyed property in front of Town Hall in a December hit and run, was today (March 30) given a July 29 jury trial date in...
View ArticleGB Town Meeting warrant items: Zoning, wetlands, solar array, nonbinding...
Great Barrington — The Selectboard Monday night (March 30) unanimously approved the remaining warrant articles for May 4 town meeting, including a revision to the Conservation Commission’s wetlands...
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MassDOT gives green light to upgrade of Bridge Street span
Great Barrington — When resources are precious and state aid is hard to come by, sometimes priorities have to be shuffled. Such is now the case with the “functionally obsolete” Bridge Street bridge, a...
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‘Serious threat’ closes Lenox school
Lenox — Lenox Memorial Middle and High School (LMMHS) was closed today after a “serious threat” left on school voicemail this morning (April 2) forced an evacuation of students at around 9:15 a.m. from...
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Merchants make the best of reconstruction project — with help from some friends
Great Barrington — With the recent butchering of trees and the cracking apart of sidewalks, all part of the state’s Main Street reconstruction project, one would think that shoppers might forego a trip...
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