Amy serves as assistant managing editor for The Berkshire Edge. She lives in Adams, Massachusetts and holds a BFA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing from Emerson College.
Community Development Corporation of South Berkshire has welcomed Carol Bosco Baumann as Interim Executive Director, along with Spring Burke and Brian Horan to its Board of Directors.
Jewish Federation of the Berkshires’ Dignity Drive will be held through the month of May. Donations of new, packaged menstrual and incontinence products for neighbors in need can be dropped off at four countywide locations.
Ilana Steinhauer, executive director of VIM Berkshires, has been elected to the board of trustees of Lee Bank, and five new corporators have been named.
The Berkshire Bach Society will continue its season on Saturday, May 14, with well-known choral conductor James Bagwell leading soloists, chorus, and orchestra, at the First Congregational Church in Great Barrington.
The Great Barrington, Egremont, Lee, Lenox, Monterey, Otis, Sheffield and Stockbridge police departments will participate in National Drug Take-back Day on Saturday, April 30.
The Berkshire Flyer weekend passenger train service from New York City to Pittsfield will begin Friday, July 8. Tickets will go on sale beginning in May.
Growing Better Great Barrington, a report and action plan to strengthen the town’s local food system, is now available to view and will be the topic of discussion at Coffee with the Town Manager on May 4.
A celebration of the Mahaiwe Performing Art Center’s founder Lola Jaffe will be held at the theater on Sunday, April 24 at 5 p.m. The event will include live performances by the Paul Taylor Dance Company and Deborah Grausman.
Dewey Memorial Hall in Sheffield will host virtuoso fiddle player Aaron Jonah Lewis on Friday, April 22, for a workshop at 5:30 p.m., followed by a concert at 7:30 p.m.
Southern Berkshire Chamber of Commerce’s 2021 Business Person of the Year event has been rescheduled to Thursday, May 5, when J. Scott Rote of Wheeler & Taylor will be honored at Crissey Farm.
Flying Cloud Institute has added Catherine Burns, Daniel Medwed, and Dana Vorisek to its board of directors. Arlene Schiff and Katherine Westgate have joined the board of Community Health Partners.
The next Lenox Library Distinguished Lecture will be held Sunday, April 24, via Zoom. Berkshire Natural Resources Council President Jenny Hansell will discuss the future of land conservation and trails in the Berkshires.
Berkshire Botanical Garden will hold its inaugural Spring Hoppening this Saturday, with an egg hunt, crafts, baby chicks, a photo booth, mini horse-drawn cart rides, and one large and friendly bunny.
The Samuel Harrison Society, in conjunction with the NAACP, Berkshire Country Branch, will celebrate the life of Reverend Samuel Harrison with a virtual birthday celebration on Friday, April 15, at 7 p.m.
1Berkshire has begun a project to collect materials and resources focused on entrepreneurial resources and guidance in the region, and have them translated into Spanish.
