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BUSINESS MONDAY: Spotlight on Sarah’s Cheesecakes & Cafe in Pittsfield

The small family-owned and -operated operation is celebrating its 20th anniversary—and looking forward to many more years to come.

Sharon L. Keefner, 73, of Great Barrington

Sharon was an avid reader and shared many good times with their wide circle of friends.

CAPITAL IDEAS: Politics slowing the recovery

Dalton -- We’re entering the third quarter, which has historically been the worst quarter of the year for the stock market. We’re also entering...

Bits & Bytes: Mahaiwe drive-in movies; Howardena Pindell at Art Omi; online theater workshop; screenplay submissions

During the workshop, guest choreographers Becky and Jamal Ahamad, Community Works alums and creators of the dance troupe dysFUNK, will show how movement tells a story.

News Brief: Great Barrington to launch GB S.A.F.E. program

The brainchild of local business owner Richard Stanley, the project was further developed by @GBLabs to showcase area businesses that are being responsible and responsive during this uncertain time.

The Tanglewood 2020 Online Festival schedule in a nutshell

Navigating one's way from the bso.org home page to all the relevant schedule pages is probably a bit easier than driving a semi truck through downtown Boston during rush hour, but it is still not exactly straightforward, especially when it comes to seeing lists of paid content.

Great Barrington Selectboard denounces racism, initiates review of police practices

The goal of the reexamination of the role of the police is to “transform the police into a force for justice. We are not painting our Police Department with the same brush as other departments in other cities.” -- Selectboard member Leigh Davis

Housatonic’s Peter Pan: Jeanne Bassis and the power of play

Bassis strives to bring a sense of playfulness and “lighthearted curiosity” to the table while encouraging others, regardless of age, “to be more playful from the inside out.”

BSO Musicians in Recital from Tanglewood: Sebring, Overton, Schumann, Dukas and Mozart

Of course, as Sebring warns, the only appropriate recital space for an alphorn is the great outdoors — alps if you have them, the Berkshire hills if you don't.

Birth announcement

A girl born at Fairview Hospital in Great Barrington

EYES TO THE SKY: Act for dark skies. See Jupiter and Saturn with Swan and Scorpion

Returning to Jupiter and Saturn in the nighttime sky, we find the planets in the neighborhood of summer’s most iconic star patterns.

Alan Chartock: I Publius, A farewell to Carl Reiner

I have quoted liberally from “The 2000 Year Old Man” for years. Many of my friends and I have committed a good deal of his work to memory and it has become a short hand for almost every political situation. 

PERSPECTIVES: Berkshires-centric ‘farm-to-label’ cannabis shop to open next week in Sheffield

The Pass has a large retail building, and behind it are two facilities: one for growing and another for processing. In addition, the Pass has a grow facility in Ashley Falls.

BUSINESS BRIEFS: Greylock expands to Hudson; Downtown Pittsfield ambassadors; Villages of the Berkshires grant; Jacob’s Pillow commission; new Mezze co-cowners

Villages of the Berkshires is launching an effort to provide volunteer services such as friendly visitors or companionship, local transportation, technology support, and basic household repairs and assistance to seniors in the Berkshires.

From Tanglewood, Great Performers in Recital: Gil Shaham

It takes, in addition to garden-variety virtuosity, some kind of rare mojo to do what Mr. Shaham does, and that is exactly why it is so rewarding to watch him do it.

Berkshire region real estate sales June 21-27, 2020

The latest weekly report of real estate sales in the Berkshire region of Western Massachusetts and Northwest Connecticut: June 21-27, 2020

PERSPECTIVES: From the tiny to the mighty: More than 300 Berkshire County organizations receive PPP loans

In Massachusetts, 18,177 small businesses received PPP loans, which the companies say allowed them to retain 738,613 jobs.
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