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THE OTHER SIDE: It doesn’t matter if you won or lost

The Declaration of Independence makes crystal clear that the Founders fought for the proposition “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed …” Having lost the 2020 election, Donald Trump became the first president in our history to oppose the peaceful transfer of power and to try, in...

CONNECTIONS: Letters from an unforgiving wilderness: Stockbridge, 1749

Isolation and treacherous country were not the only challenges. In actual fact, it was a deadly land. Only the adventurous and strong came to Berkshire.

SOUL SUPPORT: Room to dream

We are going to need the time and space to imagine the world we want to see.

The BERKSHIRE hotel: Let’s stay focused on the bylaw

In her letter to the editor, Anni Crofut of Housatonic writes: "I would respectfully ask our Selectboard to remember that a special permit is, indeed, special."

Restoring Searles School offered as alternative to 95-room luxury hotel

Retired filmmaker and small-scale redeveloper Bobby Houston has made a competing “full cash offer with no contingencies” for the Searles School property.

Connections: Legislating morality, Part I: Fornication

Premarital sex was sanctioned and encouraged when two people were engaged to be married so the couple could determine beforehand if the marriage would be fruitful. What the women in the fornication trials were actually being punished for was not the act but failing to marry the man afterward.

Ed Abrahams for Selectman in Great Barrington

Letter from Craig and Annie Okerstrom-Lang

‘Holy shit, there’s dead bats everywhere’

"If we assume, very conservatively, that there are two million species in the tropical rainforests, this means that something like five thousand species are being lost each year. This comes to roughly fourteen species a day, or one every hundred minutes.” -- Elizabeth Kolbert in "The Sixth Extinction"
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