What will be the consequences of Great Barrington reducing Town Clerk fees for services such as marriage licenses and birth certificates?
EDGECAST VIDEO: Sugar Shack Alliance makes a stand
As chainsaws wielded by workers from Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company began to bite into the state-protected trees of Otis State Forest, members of the Sugar Shack Alliance stood in defiance of this dismemberment of the sanctuary for a natural gas pipeline. Ben Hillman provides a video report.
Bits & Bytes: Los Angeles Guitar Quartet; Mayfest 2017; Women’s Running Race; Mini Film Series
This year's Mayfest will celebrate the theme of community building and will honor the Jane and Jack Fitzpatrick Trust.
American Red Cross urges blood, platelet donation during Trauma Awareness Month
O negative red blood cells and AB plasma can be transfused into any patient, regardless of blood type, making donors with these universal blood types an important part of the Red Cross trauma team.
Nick Diller weather summary: April 2017, dry and warm
the weather conditions for the month gone by turned out to be just right for slow flowering of plants and fruit trees.
Bits & Bytes: First Fridays Artswalk; Old Mill Trail work party; ‘Really’ staged reading; waste oil & paint collection; local poet at Mass. Poetry Festival
Volunteers are needed to help clean the trail of winter debris, rake leaves, pick up trash, replace lost markers and hand-pull invasive plants such as garlic mustard, celandine and winged euonymous.
CONNECTIONS: Scaling the upper crust
America did not invent aristocracy – first we ousted it and then we imitated it. If there is an America form of aristocracy, it is probably celebrity and absolutely wealth itself.
Bits & Bytes: Rx Round Up; Arbor Day Fest; Tatge to discuss Jacob’s Pillow; Jesse Harris in Egremont; winter clothing drive
The Pillow recently announced the receipt of a $100,000 grant to expand and create new programs engaging local Berkshire County residents, organizations, and businesses.
CONNECTIONS: A prize worth fighting for
Boston Corners was a hangout, a resort for fugitives and criminals, located near Mount Washington in a part of Berkshire County that was disputed.
Bits & Bytes: Lee Greener Gateway Cleanup; youth poetry festival finale; Bill and the Belles at Dewey Hall; ‘Straight Answers to Gay Questions;’ Emma Willmann at the Garage
The Outspoken poetry festival includes workshops, peer-led open mics and competitive poetry slams for youth ages 15–24, and the finale is a celebration that includes performances by the top finishers of the poetry slams and a feature set by poet Mariah Barber.
EAT WELL / LIVE WELL: It’s OK… (Passover and Easter conversations)
Deprivation is not the key to healthy eating, satiety is. And satiety is a complex condition. It has both physical and emotional components.
Bits & Bytes: ‘Jewish Survival in Albania and Kosova;’ screenwriting competition; senior center art exhibit; ‘Remnants’ at Williams; WAM Theatre auditions
“Remnants” was first produced for radio in 1992 and is based on 20 years of playwright Henry 'Hank' Greenspan’s conversations with Holocaust survivors.
CONNECTIONS: Beautification, conservation, environmental protection
“The nation behaves well if it treats its national resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation.” -- President Theodore Roosevelt
Bits & Bytes: Land trusts meeting; Earth Day writing workshop; wine tasting benefit; juried art exhibition; candidate meet and greet
David Bollier is an author, activist, blogger and independent scholar with a primary focus on the commons as a new paradigm for economics, politics and culture.
Bits & Bytes: Early college conference; Fathers and Families meeting; community garden registration; ‘Pencil and Paper’
Conducted by master gardener Diane Wetzel of Pittsfield, the workshop covers the benefits of organic gardening and imparts practical information on how to incorporate the approach.