They say changing your story is an indication of guilt. Mr. Beach attracted the attention of investigators by changing his story no fewer than three times.
Nick Diller weather summary: August 2017, cool and dry
Rainfall totaled 3.36 versus the average 4.20 inches. But once again, it did not feel drier and cooler because of moderate to extreme humidity.
First Saturday Free Films opens with Nora Ephron documentary at Mason Library
“The mission of the Friends of the Library is, first of all, to bring people to the library.”
Egremont Green News: Police are taking back old meds
Great Barrington police estimate that three to five people a day drop off old meds at their take-back receptacle, which is the size and shape of a mailbox and sits to the right of the window at the police desk.
CONNECTIONS: Remembering The Music Inn
Music Inn existed as a venue from 1950–1979. During three different phases, it was consistently a gathering place of American musicians.
Bits & Bytes: Columbia County Fair; ‘Melissa’s Choice’; #EmpowerYouthAgainstHate; ‘First Saturday Free Films;’ origami workshop
'Melissa’s Choice' premiered in 2015 at the Lion Theatre in New York City and was most recently was produced by the University of North Texas with a panel supported by the ACLU.
NATURE’S TURN: August sun lights flowering, fruiting gardens and NOFA’s celebration of growers
Master Ruby Throat then flies to a neighboring structure with more scarlet blossoms, alights and, in a blink of an eye, is whisked away by another hummingbird.
Bits & Bytes: Active shooter training; ‘Awakening Wild;’ Women Artists Writing group presentation; antique furniture talk; ‘Growing Up in the 50’s’
The goal of the ALICE program is to provide individuals with survival-enhancing options for critical moments in the gap between when a violent situation begins and when law enforcement arrives on the scene.
Bits & Bytes: Berkshire Hot Summer Swing Bash; Blue Rider Stables’ Fun Day; ‘Soil and Shul in the Berkshires;’ historical society exhibit opening
The first Jewish families who came from New York City in the early 20th century were part of a plan by the Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society to settle an agricultural colony in the Berkshires.
Sustainable Berkshires: North Plain Farm’s new digs
“A diverse and healthy ecosystem and a livestock farm are not mutually exclusive." -- Tess Diamond
Bits & Bytes: ‘SEVEN’ at Simon’s Rock; Berkshire Opera Festival; Bret Stephens to give Feigenbaum lecture; Laurel Hill Day
SEVEN was commissioned in 2006 by the Washington, D.C.-based Vital Voices Global Partnership, which had seven playwrights dramatize the stories of seven women.
CONNECTIONS: When trolleys linked the Berkshires
Frank J. Sprague was credited with the invention of the electric trolley but a Stockbridge man, Stephen Dudley Field, actually invented the electric trolley in 1874 – almost a decade earlier than Sprague.
Bits & Bytes: Gillian Seidl scholarship; golf classic accepting registration; local author up for Thurber Prize; the Josh requests volunteers
Author Aaron Thier is a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor, the only recognition of the art of humor writing in the United States.
Bits & Bytes: Celebrate Stephentown; Stockbridge Summer Arts & Crafts Show; ‘What We Were;’ Drew to give history talk
'What We Were' tells the story of a pair of siblings who must learn to let go of their former selves in order to navigate their current situations.
CONNECTIONS: Life and loves in the Gilded Age
What makes the gossip about Hannah Lydig peculiar is that it was not engendered by the behavior of living people, but only behavior after death.