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I WITNESS: Other duties as assigned

In short, the woman who cannot decide whether she is GI Jane, Calamity Jane, or Amelia Earhart is a despicable freak whose removal was both justified and overdue.

GB Main Street Reconstruction to begin in July

Work on the Main Street Reconstruction is to begin in this summer, starting at Cottage Street, and conclude in the spring of 2016, but won't proceed within the downtown core, from Bridge to Elm streets, during July and August.

Gilded Age loses its glitter in Stockbridge — for now

"Stockbridge is a model, small New England town, and we’ve maintained its character for 250 years. The intent of bylaws is to save these properties, but we don't want to be creating a Club Med North.” -- Stockbridge Planning Board member Eugene Talbot

Big bad things that didn’t happen: How the southwest corner of Massachusetts nearly drowned

Northeast Utilities had proposed to construct the world’s largest pump storage hydroelectric facility, drowning Plantain Pond on the heights of Mount Washington and most of Sheffield south of the village under two lakes.

Part I. Big, bad things that never came to pass: A short history of environmental activism in the Berkshires

In 1964, Mount Greylock Tramway Authority planned to transform the highest mountain in Massachusetts into a downhill ski area with a 100-foot tower on the 3,491-foot summit of Mount Greylock for the “world’s largest” aerial tramway.

Music as a journey through life: A conversation with Max Weiner

"Working to get better at my music means I can achieve more. That’s the beauty of it. It’s exponential growth as the better you get, the more you realize you have so much more distance to climb." -- Monument Mountain senior Max Weiner who will be attending Oberlin College and Conservatory in the fall.

Nature’s Bounty: Lenox farmers market opens in dramatic setting

Having the farmers market on Shakespeare & Company’s grounds is quite different from the more typical environment of parking lots. The theatre’s actors often perform Shakespearean sketches on picnic tables.

Whatever happened to ‘Occupy Berkshires’?

'If we focus only on financial resources, the average American in the top 500 has 40,000 times the wealth power of the median citizen.' -- Northwestern University Professor Jeffrey Winters
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