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Monte Levin and Gary Lazarus of Compass offer an immaculate contemporary lakefront home on the shores of the legendary Stockbridge Bowl. See how architect Pamela Sandler transformed a lake house on the shores of Lake Onota. A report on real estate sales in the first quarter of 2025. Plus, recent sales and gardening columns and a home-cooking recipe.

EDITORIAL: We are all in this together

It has been said before that a crisis brings out the best and the worst in people. We see it in our leaders in...

For many Great Barrington voters, a tough decision for selectboard awaits

"I have no idea how this election will turn out. I put signs up this weekend. I asked some people to put up signs and they said no. They liked everybody." -- Great Barrington Selectboard Chair Steve Bannon

Conflict-of-interest complaint filed against two Great Barrington selectmen; Sheffield ConCom member fined $2,500 by state ethics panel

Abrahams doubts anything will come of it because the ethics commission told him earlier there was no conflict of interest so long as he did not have a financial relationship with the applicant or otherwise stand to benefit financially.

As selectboard mulls new alcohol policy, GB package store owners fail to stop additional licenses

The state sets a quota for the total number of licenses based on year-round population. Census figures set Great Barrington at two all-alcohol licenses and five beer-and-wine licenses. But the town currently has eight total licenses, only one of which is beer-and-wine only.

Cadre of residents, merchants look to repeal plastic water bottle ban

While a long list of businesses and other organizations said they supported the new bylaw, it did not sit did well with a number of other merchants, who felt the ban would harm their businesses or who objected on the grounds of legislative overreach. 

Ronald Race, 91, of Housatonic

Ronald “Ron” Hastings Race, 91, of Housatonic died peacefully at home Wednesday, April 11, 2018, surrounded by his family. Ron was born Oct. 21, 1926,...

Brother/sister team return home with Berkshire memory musical, ‘What We Were’

“As much as all art struggles in public education, there is an amazing program at Monument Mountain Regional High School.” -- Jackson Teeley, whose musical “What We Were” will be work-shopped this coming Friday at The Barn at the Village Inn

June A. Williamson, 69, of Great Barrington

In her youth she was a champion horseback rider winning many trophies on her horse, Smokey. Her participation in the Tri-State CB Radio Club earned her the nickname “Junebug” which stayed with her for the rest of her life.

Dolores Dee Twarog Aberdale, 78, of Housatonic, retired pharmacy director at Fairview Hospital

In 1995 Dee returned to Fairview Hospital as the Director of Pharmacy where she remained until 2012, when she chose to retire from her 52-year-long career.

Spirit of giving: Warm the Children

This year the Sheffield Kiwanis has 40 percent more eligible children for the Warm the Children program than last year.

Amid national crisis Housatonic gun shop thrives as gun sales soar statewide

“It’s easy to sit back and look at a disaster and say, take the guns away. We do have strict gun laws and we still have a problem.” -- State Rep. William "Smitty" Pignatelli, D-Lenox

Aberdale’s ‘Warm the Children’ donations stolen; thief caught on video

“It’s Housy and it’s not supposed to happen here. People are disturbed.” -- Joe Aberdale, whose parents started Aberdale’s in a nearby building in 1961
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