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Great Barrington Selectboard candidates: Bill Cooke
Recently retired magazine art director, Bill Cooke, says he now has plenty of time to tend to town business and cultivate economic development. Cooke, 62, a Connecticut native who has lived in Denver,...
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Great Barrington Selectboard candidates: Sean Stanton
Seven-year Selectboard and 4-year Planning Board veteran Sean Stanton said that when he was younger, service to country “was very important” to him, and the reason why, he said at the April 27...
View ArticleTown ‘evicts’ Magadini from Town Hall gazebo
Great Barrington—It’s hard being homeless. David Magadini, Town Moderator candidate and homeless resident who calls the gazebo behind Town Hall home, had most of his portable belongings confiscated by...
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Taconic Avenue parents to drivers: Slow Down!
Great Barrington — Fed up with cars speeding cars along a treacherous section between two bends on Taconic Avenue, and for several years weighing traffic calming solutions, residents near the Taconic...
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Cooke, Stanton elected to GB Selectboard; Curletti to Finance
Great Barrington — Selectboard incumbent Sean Stanton along with Bill Cooke, newcomer and husband of former board chair Deborah Phillips, took the two available seats in Tuesday’s (May 12) town...
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Sheffield man shot multiple times, suspects at large
Sheffield — A man shot on Tuesday evening (May 12) in a residential area on Pine Lane in Ashley Falls had to be transported to Albany Medical Center by Life Flight due to multiple gunshot wounds to his...
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Update: Shooting in ‘quiet’ Ashley Falls neighborhood; victim’s identity not...
Sheffield — An Ashley Falls woman who lives in the “quiet” residential neighborhood that was rattled by Tuesday evening’s (May 12) shooting said she did not hear the multiple shots that caused a man to...
View ArticleAshley Falls shooting victim identified, in stable condition at Albany...
Canaan, Conn. — The Connecticut man who owns the Ashley Falls property where a man was shot Tuesday evening (May 12), told The Edge that the victim, Joseph Race, is in stable condition at Albany...
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Aberdale’s ‘Warm the Children’ donations stolen; thief caught on video
Housatonic—At Aberdale’s, if you say you want “smokes,” they know what kind you want. If you say you’ll have “a pint,” they don’t need to ask you whether it’s Bacardi or Jim Beam. Crime is limited to...
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Once a church, soon (another) GB restaurant complex
Great Barrington — Commerce will yet again overtake God, as what was once a church will become a place to eat and shop. But the steeple stays. Ingrid and Paul Joffe, with attorney Ed McCormick, during...
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Life on The Edge: Dispatch from the Multitasking Desk
Great Barrington — The Edge is like a big city news bureau with multiple desks. Not really, but the Editor and I like to joke about every time we talk. It depends what we’re working on at the moment....
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Tree falls on truck; Steiner School gets a playground tunnel
Great Barrington — It was John Wheeler’s luckiest lunch break. In early May, the carpenter left a job to go to his North Plain Road home for lunch. He parked his pickup truck in the driveway, and went...
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At Monument Mountain: Hike is free, parking is not
Great Barrington — Hikers who make a daily trek up Monument Mountain were greeted with a surprise last week. It wasn’t a bear, or a moose, or the apparitions of Melville, Hawthorne, or the heartbroken...
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Case against Kyle Bailey, driver in fatal Easter accident, moved to Superior...
Pittsfield — A 22-year-old Glendale man charged with numerous counts stemming from a fatal Easter weekend car accident in Great Barrington was arraigned before Judge C. Jeffrey Kinder in Berkshire...
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Wired West gains wide support for rural high speed, broadband network
New Marlborough —In what harkens back to the rural electrification efforts of yesteryear, Western Massachusetts is on the brink of a transformation as towns vote, one after the other with overwhelming...
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Berkshire Pulse, reborn and renewed, hosts weekend gala, performances
Housatonic — In the sunlit, freshly painted top level of a restored mill building in a village that is experiencing a lively rejuvenation, it is hard to believe that there was ever a dark moment for...
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Mass. DEP halts bioremediation at former Log Homes site; more data needed,...
Great Barrington — A $40 million development project envisioned for what is still a toxic waste site on Bridge Street had yet another setback last month when the state Department of Environmental...
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Hotel on North revives Pittsfield’s spirits and hopes for city center
Pittsfield — In a smashing debut in the heart of a struggling city, Hotel on North brought a fever of delight into a reviving Pittsfield last night with a crowd of around 300, sipping champagne and...
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DEP to request more testing for Log Homes site bioremediation
Great Barrington — A Monday (June 8) meeting between officials from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP), the Community Development of South Berkshire (CDC) and town and...
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The artist, Eunice Agar, unveils her painting of Barrington Fair for Town Hall
Great Barrington — At the edge of a cornfield at the top of the airport runway, the sun pours in to a painting studio, falling on a cart of paintbrushes, some of them 60 years old and worn down at the...
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