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CONNECTIONS: Two remarkable Berkshire County women

What makes a remarkable woman? Let’s learn about a couple and see what we think.

Alan Chartock: Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s chess game

Cuomo has a playbook that includes using the state Senate as a scapegoat.

Raymond Elling, 94, of Great Barrington

Upon his retirement in 1972, he and wife Josephine moved the family to Great Barrington and opened a bed B&B that they ran for 27 years.

News Brief: Man charged in Superior Court with murder

Lance Burke, 40, was charged in the Nov. 3, 2018, shooting death of David Green Jr., 30, of Pittsfield.

Lance Burke of Bronx, N.Y.,  indicted on murder charge

Burke is charged with shooting David Green Jr. of Pittsfield in the neck while Green sat in a pickup truck near Spring and Willow streets in Pittsfield.

Cheryl Ann Luft, 64, of Southfield

She was an avid photographer, bird watcher, dog lover and first responder volunteer. Her business CalmLightNow Photography created art and greeting cards that featured her love of nature and photography.

Alan Chartock: Legal bribery in New York Legislature

So if a judge declares that the so-called commission exceeded its authority to set limits on outside income and the commission didn’t have the right to take their lulus away, will Boss Heastie and his counterparts in the Senate have to give their newly elevated salaries back?

Leonard Quart: Three New York memories

I wanted to leave my parochial Bronx and take greater risks, care less about a secure future, and act out some of the wilder dreams I harbored.

Rena Yusin Orner, 94, of Lenox

She was a chemistry professor at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, New Jersey, until her retirement.

Daniel Donnelly, 58, of Pittsfield

Daniel spent most of his life working as a professional mover and home repairman/roofer.

Irving Kronenberg, 84, of Stockbridge

He was a pioneer in elder and hospice services; he created adult day-care programs and co-founded the Hospice of Rhode Island in the 1970s.

Willard Salzer, 92, of Lenox

Most of his professional life was at Allied Stores Corp. in New York City, where he became vice president for planning and research and a nationally known authority on retail store location.

New York crash claims life of Lee woman and her son

Lauren Pellegrino and her spouse, Kerry Hamill, both 40 and of Lee, were stopped in traffic on Saturday, Dec. 30, 2017, when their vehicle was rear-ended by a man driving a box truck. Also in the vehicle was their three-year-old son, Grayson.

Itinerant artist envisions an Earth saved by children

“I have survived by hiding -- in the woods and on the street... How do I walk a path to honor [the gifts I’ve been given]? I don’t know where to fit in.” -- Itinerant artist and songwriter Dorrie, during an interview at Construct Inc. in Great Barrington, Massachusetts

NYCFD Firefighter Robert William Alexander, 43, Mt. Everett graduate, victim of rescue operations at World Trade Center

At home and on his morning off on September 11th 2001 he reported to his precinct in East Harlem  and then onto the World Trade Center. From September 11th, 2001 until January of 2002 he worked at the World Trade Center site.

Bella Gorin, 104, of Lenox

Bella will always be remembered as being ahead of her time, traveling into New York City as a young mother to visit the Margaret Sanger Birth Control Clinic, a pre-cursor to Planned Parenthood.

Richard Krzynowek, 70, of Egremont, former president of Isgood Realty

He became the president of Isgood Realty in 1980, a position he held until his recent retirement. His broad knowledge of the marketplace, business acumen and personality made him the "go to" person amongst peers, earning him the title of the dean of Berkshire county real estate.
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