EDGECAST: Berkshire activists sign up new voters at Pride Day, Portland ME
More InfoLet the 2020 campaigning begin. Politically engaged Berkshire residents in Portland, Maine, registering voters on Gay Pride Day 2019. Read More
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Trade and Commerce
CAPITAL IDEAS: Heartbreaker, dream maker
Allen Harris - After this week’s meeting, the real conversation begins: Will there be a Fed cut in July? In September? Read More
Life In the Berkshires
Bits & Bytes: ‘Heartflow: Honoring the Housatonic River’; Wild Thing trail race; ‘River Art Project 3’; Discover Connecticut bicycle tour; GoldenOak at Race Brook Lodge
Emily Edelman - Prizes will be awarded to the male and female winners and runners-up of the 10K and 5K races, as well as to the top two “Best Dressed Native Species” racers. Read More
Farm and Table
Pleasant and Main: A restaurant that should be embraced
Barbara and Leonard Quart - The Housatonic cafe is on another level, an utterly different experience altogether. There's artistry here. Read More
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CONNECTIONS: Women of ‘The Buccaneers’
Carole Owens - Oscar Wilde defined it as “A time when single women seek husbands and married women hide from their husbands.” Read More
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Bits & Bytes: ‘Versailles’ at the Mahaiwe; Horses and Hikers for Healing; ‘I’m Dying Up Here’
Emily Edelman - Scavenger hunt clues will be hidden throughout Berkshire HorseWorks’ seven acres of easily navigated nature trails, paddocks, natural pond and gardens. Read More
Farm and Table
NATURE’S TURN: Polyculture, no-till garden tour
Judy Isacoff - Rows of vigorous fall-planted garlic have anchored the garden with their lush foliage, superseded only by perennial rhubarb that thrived even when its leaves were snow-covered on May 12. Read More
Life In the Berkshires
PHOTO ESSAY: Berkshire Pride Festival in Pittsfield
Edge Staff - Photographer Lear Levin captures both the spirit and the activities of the Berkshire Pride Festival held at the Commons in Pittsfield, Mass. Read More
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Illuminating the Hidden Forest
Carolyn Newberger - Lily and I discovered the big, messy, seething forest that lies behind the few houses that dot our road. I’m talking about hundreds of acres of forest connected to thousands and hundreds of thousands of acres of forest stretching northward through Vermont, into Canada, beyond the Yukon, and clear to the North Pole. Read More
Trade and Commerce
Business Briefs: Cultural Facilities Fund grant for CATA; Rock Shark wearable art; Qomunicate Publishing at Berkshire Pride; business start-up seminar; BCC invites public comment
Emily Edelman - Comedian/producer and Berkshires native McQueen Adams recently launched TheBerks.co, a website of wearable art featuring the Rock Shark boulder. Read More
Life In the Berkshires
Bits & Bytes: Stockbridge Art Walk; LitNet gala; Paul Green CD release; Pittsfield Repair Cafe
Emily Edelman - The theme of “Pride in Diversity, Pride in Community” celebrates the character of LitNet, which supports diverse adult learners from more than 25 different countries, as well as the close relationships that LitNet holds with community members, businesses and organizations. Read More