“I worry about what happens to our students when their leaders lose sight of whom they serve," said Du Bois Middle School Spanish teacher Mercedes Girona. “I understand that there are budget cuts, but I feel like there needs to be a little bit more humanity."
The Geoffrey Young Gallery, 40 Railroad St. in Great Barrington, will host a presentation by writer, actor and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Bobby Houston.
March 24 may be the date that made him a one-term Congressman. With his abrupt decision to support the American Health Care Act, the freshman Republican congressman from Kinderhook engaged in a stunning series of betrayals.
Topics for discussion at the Friends of the Clinton AME Zion Church Restoration Project meeting include setting up a fundraising strategy, recruiting a committee, and formulating a plan to raise $100,000 in the next 60 days.
The permit split raised concerns that the 45 housing units would sit alone up against the wastewater treatment plant, with 6 acres of toxic soil either left there or remediated in phases.
While Community Development Corporation of South Berkshire (CDC) has presented its plan for 45 units of affordable housing to several boards, the Zoning Board of Appeals is the one that has to decide whether to issue CDC its comprehensive permit.
In his letter to the editor, Tim Geller, executive director of the Community Development Corporation of South Berkshire, writes: "The 100 Bridge site is singled out in the Town Master Plan for precisely the kind of development proposed."
In a letter to the editor, members of the Green Tea Party write: “Our goal is to get the voters on their feet, to understand the way decisions get made, to play watchdog and increase the conversation.”
Whether or not the town's school allocation passes this time, Great Barrington will still be obligated to pay a $14.5 million share of the Berkshire Hills Regional School District budget.
Now Railroad Street Youth Project provides apprenticeships in computer coding and robotics, photography, theatre appreciation and directing, cosmetology, and culinary arts.
In a letter to the editor, Great Barrington resident Bobby Houston writes: “In the big picture, continuous tax increases harm the local economy. Surrounding towns all emerge as tax havens from GB.”
Someone on one side of the Stockbridge/Great Barrington property line should not be paying more than someone on the other side, no matter how many kids are involved, according to Great Barrington resident Chip Elitzer.
“Saving the main building will lengthen our design and construction process and increase our costs but satisfying the community was very important to Vijay and me.”
-- Chrystal Mahida, on why she and her husband Vijay revised plans for their Berkshire Hotel