A former reporter and Managing Editor for The Edge, Heather Bellow is now an investigative reporter for The Berkshire Eagle. She lives in Great Barrington.
"Census data is not necessarily what you want to guide strategy. There is no wall around Great Barrington.'
-- Great Barrington Town Manager Jennifer Tabakin
"It is a general blessing to proceed,” said Janet Elsbach, of the Great Barrington Fair Ground (GBFG). The situation has evolved into “a constructive partnership” between the organization and the town.
Total revenue for Berkshire Hills from students choicing in to the district is $1,450,000. Subtracting what is lost by students choicing out, net revenue comes to $850,000.
It is a soccer extravaganza with an estimated worldwide viewing population of 3.2 billion humans, long anticipated and riddled with controversy. Yet soccer itself is the everyman’s game, ferociously beloved by both rich and poor, and everyone in between.
If successful at the Log Homes site, bioremediation could revolutionize the way thousands of industrial parcels across the country are cleansed of pollutants.
“If there was anything easy to cut it’s been cut,” says Abrahams of the school budget. “We’re not getting reimbursed at a high enough rate to cover expenses.”