“If there was anything easy to cut it’s been cut,” says Abrahams of the school budget. “We’re not getting reimbursed at a high enough rate to cover expenses.”
Twenty years ago, in 1994, there were only 1,755 farmers' markets in the U.S. By 2013 the number had jumped to 8,144, and this year promises even more.
Simmering anger over the seeming indifference of local town and school officials, combined with resentment toward newcomers and the local friends of the newcomers, are at the heart of local elections this May.
If Kirt Mayland’s Housatonic Solar Project achieves its objectives, the Berkshire Hills Regional School District, the Southern Berkshire Regional School District, and the town of Great Barrington would all become the beneficiaries, with significant savings on the cost of electricity.
"If we assume, very conservatively, that there are two million species in the tropical rainforests, this means that something like five thousand species are being lost each year. This comes to roughly fourteen species a day, or one every hundred minutes.”
-- Elizabeth Kolbert in "The Sixth Extinction"
This is completely thrilling for an actor – and completely terrifying. You leap from one character to another – and you have to land full blown for each one.
-- Daniel Osman, of his 39 roles in 'Fully Committed.'
'If we focus only on financial resources, the average American in the top 500 has 40,000 times the wealth power of the median citizen.'
-- Northwestern University Professor Jeffrey Winters
“We have to eat lunches, and we want to have a healthy lifestyle, but it’s difficult at school where there haven't been healthy food options,” explained Quinn Abrams, a junior from Great Barrington. “Until now.”
In about 10 years Great Barrington should have newly reconfigured water lines and sewer system, bike lanes on all the major roads to offer an alternative to the automobile, a renovated railroad line to the New York Metropolitan Area.