Friday, Jun 23 - Sixty Egremont residents, the minimum needed for a quorum, raised their pink slips in the cafeteria of Mount Everett Regional High School to cast their votes in favor of the proposed SBRSD budget, thereby ending the town's dispute with the school district -- for the time being.
Thursday, Jun 22 - The honorees were nominated by state legislators and chosen by the commission.
Thursday, Jun 22 - He attended services at the Church on the Hill and was a volunteer at the church suppers. He also volunteered at the Guthrie Center in Housatonic.
Thursday, Jun 22 - She was employed as an operator for New England Telephone in its Lenox exchange for several years, worked at the former Windsor Mountain School in Lenox as a switchboard operator and bookkeeper, and was a cook and St. Mary’s Convent in Lee prior to her retirement.
Wednesday, Jun 21 - After meeting separately in closed-door sessions on Monday, the Egremont Board of Selectmen and the regional school committee agreed to a settlement that would suspend operations at the South Egremont School for 2017-18.
Wednesday, Jun 21 - In the spotlight, State Senate President Pro Tempore Marc Pacheco kept his cool as, one by one, residents stood up to complain about the sound pollution and visual impact of wind turbines.
Wednesday, Jun 21 - While Toomey saw action at both the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, it was the fact that the peace treaty was signed in Tokyo Bay in 1945 aboard the very ship on which he was serving that he was most proud.
Wednesday, Jun 21 - Since the activists did not enter a building, boat or vehicle, the state must prove that the protesters entered "improved or enclosed land."
Tuesday, Jun 20 - Three boys and a girl were born recently at Fairview Hospital.
Monday, Jun 19 - Rex told a panel of Monument educators and community leaders she had become an administrator after years of teaching because "I was frustrated with the decisions administrators were making or the way they interacted with the faculty and the kids."
Saturday, Jun 17 - The $300,000 Brownfields Community Wide Assessment grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will be used to perform Phase One and Phase Two environmental assessments of several properties, most of them in and around the village of Housatonic.
Thursday, Jun 15 - The cost for a sewer system as small as Great Barrington's is staggering. The annual cost for dealing with so-called "flushable" wipes is estimated to be $150,000 for cleaning and unclogging, with labor alone costing $85,000.
Wednesday, Jun 14 - "We have a potential settlement agreement. Both parties will be voting on it next week. If both parties agree, we will not go forward with our suit." -- Bruce Turner, chairman of the Egremont Board of Selectmen
Wednesday, Jun 14 - The tour is a statewide committee initiative on clean energy, climate change and constituent engagement.
Tuesday, Jun 13 - The latest episode saw the public hearing on the airport's quest for three new hangars continued to July 10, but only after the selectboard heard from both sides of the controversial proposal, with noisy airport antagonists drowning out proponents.
Tuesday, Jun 13 - A 35-year employee of Mineral Technology, formerly Pfizer, in Canaan, Connecticut, Davis retired in 1995.