Tuesday, October 8, 2024

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EDGECAST: News in review, a podcast: Lynching threat, opioid epidemic, drunk driving by police, and a new trail network

The news behind the news with Edge Managing Editor Heather Bellow: lynching threat at Monument Mountain Regional High School; drinking and driving by Great Barrington Police officer; the BNRC's High Road trail network; and the lack of treatment options for the opioid epidemic in South Berkshire County.

This week, Heather discusses lynching threats at Monument Mountain Regional High School, Berkshire Natural Resources High Road town-to-town trail network, the summer drought, the case of a Great Barrington police officer stopped for drunk driving, and the lack of treatment options in South Berkshire for the opioid epidemic:

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EDGECAST: Black Lives Matter rally in Great Barrington

More than 2,000 people attended the Black Lives Matter demonstration in front of the historic Great Barrington Town Hall where the first resistance to British rule took place in 1775.

EDGECAST: Joe Kennedy III opens campaign for Ed Markey’s U.S. Senate seat

In Pittsfield, Mass., U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy III begins his campaign to challenge U.S. Sen. Ed Markey in the Democratic primary.

WATCH: CLOSE THE CAMPS, Lights for Liberty protest in Pittsfield

Watch this video of local demonstrations against the detention camps along the U.S.-Mexico border caging desperate immigrant families who are fleeing savage conditions in Central and South America.

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