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Lauren Molk and John Panzer of Elyse Harney Real Estate offer a spacious three-floor condo near downtown Stockbridge that feels like a free-standing house. The architectural design firm of Clark Green + Bek works with new owners to transform Doctor Sax House from a private home to a stunning boutique hotel. A report on real estate sales in the first quarter of 2025. Plus, recent sales and gardening columns and a home-cooking recipe.

ArtCountry provides exceptional cultural experiences in 2018

What is actually new about ArtCountry in 2018? Quite a bit: discounts on admissions, package deals with three local hotels. The ArtCountry Summer Pass ($50), new in 2018, includes discounted museum admissions, a 20 percent WCMA gift shop discount and discounted ticket prices for Williamstown Theatre Festival.

Bits & Bytes: David Davis and the Warrior River Boys at Dewey Hall; migration consortium; paper marbling demo; Mass Audubon volunteer day; Voyage at...

On Friday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Bennington College will host a convening of its spring 2018 consortium on forced migration, displacement and education.

Bits & Bytes: ‘Cellblock Visions: Prison Art in America’; Lubchenco at Bennington College; ‘Russian and Soviet Film Music’ at the Mount; ‘QWERTY’ at Mixed...

In her lecture, Lubchenco will draw on her four years as the under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and the administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Bits & Bytes: JAMMS cultural immersion program; emergency response classes; Evie Shockley at Bennington College; rabies clinic; adult swim lessons

Music in Common has produced 45 JAMMS projects with diverse communities across the U.S. and Middle East that have brought together people of diverse faiths, ethnicities and cultural backgrounds.

Bits & Bytes: ‘Love Triangles’ at the Mahaiwe; Jacob’s Pillow Fellowship; Berkshire Grown Spring Supper; Morgan Jerkins at Bennington College

Berkshire Grown's Spring Supper features the talents of chefs from around the world who have made their homes in the Berkshire region.

REVIEW: Oldcastle’s ‘Broadway Bound,’ a fine tribute to Neil Simon

As a season-ender for Oldcastle, this is a winner production of an excellent play.

THEATRE REVIEW: Shipwrecked! An Entertainment. The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told By Himself)

"Shipwrecked!...." is a fine example of how an audience can be given more than it can handle and still come out feeling all right.

Berkshares Business of the Month: Assembly Coffee Roasters

In a world full of commodity coffee, Assembly Coffee Roasters buys from small-scale farmers.

Otto Borsody, 88, of Great Barrington, born in Yugoslavia, lover of freedom

English, which was taught at weekly night classes for the large immigrant community in Housatonic, became the fifth language he learned.

THEATRE REVIEW: ‘The Consul, the Tramp, and America’s Sweetheart,’ poignantly relevant, finely conceived

New plays are a wonder to behold and this one is almost as good as the movie at its core. This excellent new play is a comedy that tugs at the mind's heart more than at the heart's mind.

Town wide celebration for reopening of renovated Stockbridge Library

As issues of accessibility and appropriate preservation of a historic building were raised, the library's staff and board knew that a full upgrade was in order.

BerkShares Businesss of the Month: Teamflys

Teamflys operates their flight school during the “dairy bar season,” offering an April-to-October course that includes everything required to get your pilot’s license.

THEATRE: A short look at the Berkshire’s summer 2016 season

The big patterns here are outlying theaters putting on shows already seen in the Berkshires and a slew of inventive and new plays and musicals making our stages into their try-out venues.

REVIEW: Oldcastle’s ‘Lion in Winter’ is a brilliant production

Even if you think you know this play well, even if you love the film with Katharine Hepburn and Peter O'Toole, you owe it to yourself to get to Bennington to see this best realization ever of this play.

Bits & Bytes: Drum Pow Wow; ‘Icebergs in August’; Stefan Asbury at OLLI; ‘Red Velvet’ opens; rural museum tours

Stefan Asbury has served on the faculty of the Tanglewood Music Center and currently holds the Sana H. Sabbagh master teacher chair on the Conducting Faculty which he has held since 2005.

Berkshire Eagle parent company, Digital First, cuts New England staff

“What’s happening at The Eagle is partly an indicator of what’s happening to local journalism nationally and partly the result of the ownership structure it’s caught in right now. Digital First is in the financial engineering business, not the journalism and civic engagement business." -- Bill Densmore, lecturer at the Reynolds Institute of Journalism at the University of Missouri and co-founder of the Williamstown Advocate
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