Monday, November 3, 2025

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BUSINESS MONDAY: Spotlight on Beaver Mill and Eclipse Mill in North Adams

Thanks to a visionary couple, these historic buildings are serving as catalysts for mill restorations and magnets for artists.

CAPITAL IDEAS: Time to trim your 2025 tax bill

What you do before December 31, 2025, can be worth more than the same move on January 1, 2026. Talk to your financial advisor about steering you through these tax-avoidance tips.

TECH & INNOVATION: Finance, narratives, and bubbles

It is simply easier to tell a story than to deliver a product. What to do when storytelling outruns substance.

BUSINESS MONDAY: Spotlight on Great Barrington Business Alliance—Working to increase foot traffic, visibility, and local pride

“We’re working hard to create a collective voice and support network for the people who keep our Main Streets alive."

CAPITAL IDEAS: Are small banks about to crash the economy?

The Beige Book survey supports further interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. However, inflation is becoming a problem again. The Fed should not cut rates later this month, but I believe they will.

TECH & INNOVATION: Books, cake and the cloud

How the new publishing ecosystem works for authors and readers alike.

‘Spanish for Bankers’ helps Greylock better serve the Berkshires community

“When you better understand your members, you’re better able to serve them. ‘Spanish for Bankers’ gives our employees fundamental basics for simple interactions while also taking a deeper dive into Hispanic and Latin cultures,” said Lowenstein.

BUSINESS BRIEFS: Berkshire Opera Festival staffing updates; MountainOne Insurance promotes Shannon Dozier; Railroad Street Youth Project welcomes Kate Burke; The Mahaiwe welcomes Elizabeth Veraldi...

"Anyone who has experienced love, heartache, awe, loneliness, rowdy laughter, fellowship, beauty, goodwill, jealousy, sadness, fear—everything to do with living a full, meaningful life—should love opera, for the wealth of humanity is opera’s realm,” said Roger Persell.

BUSINESS MONDAY: Spotlight on Little Apple Cidery in Hillsdale, N.Y.

The independently owned farm and orchard is celebrating 45 years of growing apples and 10 years of making cider.

TECH & INNOVATION: Our world has changed

Many of the systems, beliefs, and habits we rely on were built for a world that no longer exists. That is why so many of our institutions feel out of sync and why so many people feel disoriented.

BUSINESS BRIEFS: MountainOne supports StoryWalk; Berkshire Film and Media Collaborative networking night; Shire City Phoenix revives Fire Cider Tonic; Berkshire Money Management welcomes Brendan...

The StoryWalk, located along the path connecting the SteepleCats stadium to the Noel Field complex, features pages from children’s picture books displayed sequentially so families can read together as they walk.

BUSINESS MONDAY: Spotlight on The Soundry in South Egremont

Since 2021, the private studio has been offering one-on-one and group music education based on inspiration and connection—now in a new space.

CAPITAL IDEAS: Is the stock market in an AI bubble?

The number of web searches for the term “AI bubble” hit, well, bubble proportions in August 2025, according to Google Trends.

TECH & INNOVATION: The new way to validate a hypothesis

How imagination meets experiment in the modern creative process.