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Great Barrington, Stockbridge, and West Stockbridge residents approve Berkshire Hills Regional School District’s high school building project

This story will be updated as results come in. A full story will be published tomorrow on The Berkshire Edge.

Total votes from all three towns

Question 1:
Yes: 2,736
No: 774

Question 2:
Yes: 2,605
No: 894

Update Tuesday, November 4 at 7:54 p.m. results from Great Barrington and Housatonic

Question 1:
Yes: 1,638
No: 531

Question 2:
Yes: 1,566
No: 602

Update Tuesday, November 4 at 7:10 p.m. results from Stockbridge

Question 1:
Yes: 636
No: 112

Question 2:
Yes: 604
No: 135

Update Tuesday, November 4 at 7:05 p.m. results from West Stockbridge

Question 1:
Yes: 462
No: 131

Question 2:
Yes: 435
No:157

Berkshire County — On Tuesday, November 4, voters in Great Barrington, Stockbridge, and West Stockbridge took to the polls to decided whether or not the Berkshire Hills Regional School District will go forward with constructing a new high school building.

Residents voted on two separate questions on two separate ballots. The first question:

Do you approve of the vote of the Regional District School Committee of the Berkshire Hills Regional School District, adopted on September 11, 2025, to authorize the borrowing of $152,067,064 to pay costs of designing, constructing, originally equipping and furnishing a new District high school to be located at 600 Stockbridge Road in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, including the payment of all costs incidental or related thereto…

The second question:

Shall the town of _______________ be allowed to exempt from the provision of proposition two and one-half, so-called, the amounts required to pay the Town’s allocable share of the bond issued by the Berkshire Hills Regional School District for the purpose of paying costs to replace the existing Monument Mountain Regional High School with a new facility serving students in grades 9-12 on the site of the existing school, including the payment of all costs incidental or related thereto?

This story will be updated as results from each town comes in. A full story will be published tomorrow on The Berkshire Edge.

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