Italians are fascinated by Trump. Tuscany is very liberal, but even my more conservative friends here and in Sicily and Milan cannot understand why he continually changes his policies on a daily basis.
“I am excited to see what we are going to be able to achieve. The Berkshire Co-op Market is in the best operational shape I have seen yet. We have the community support and operational talent to create something exceptional, innovative and ground breaking."
-- Zack Sheppard
Ames said it was time, especially when the Market is on the verge of an expansion down the road at 100 Bridge Street. “We’re both happy,” he said. “I like the Co-Op so much that I want someone who can have 150 percent energy. I’m down to 120 percent.”
When work will be begin on repairing the Bridge Street span, and what restrictions on traffic will be imposed during the repairs has yet to be determined. Bridge Street provides access to the east side of Great Barrington and is a busy bypass during the Main Street Reconstruction Project that is just getting under way.
The “functionally obsolete” bridge — which has weight restrictions and a low structural rating -- may hinder current and future development efforts on Bridge Street, “a key part of the Town’s economic development strategy.”
"To grow healthy food requires a vibrant diversity of plants, animals and soil life. These form the immune system of your land that together help each other to sustain the farm. The soil we work with as part of a farm organism needs our help to be healthy.”
-- Lia Babitch, seed garden manager at Turtle Tree Seed
The plan, now known as 100 Bridge, will — if all goes according to plan -- feature an expanded Berkshire Cooperative Market as an anchor business in what will be an eco-commercial retail, housing and green public space complex.
“There is a generation of young people eager to farm; however, they do not know where to turn.”
-- Lisa MacDougall of Mighty Food Farm, a 2009 Microloan recipient
