Tuesday, February 18, 2025

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CONNECTIONS: In this fraught time, focus locally

It is important for us to feel relevant at a time when it is easy to feel small and impotent.

Meals and messages: Two students provide nourishment for Berkshire healthcare workers

We provided 110 wraps from Guido’s Fresh Marketplace to every staff member at the Cancer Center in Pittsfield.

Vira Vira Equinox

America doesn’t have a national dance. Perhaps it should be the limbo.

Well-Being: Power your immune system for battle with rogue and invading cells

It may surprise you that another important function of the immune system is to hunt rogue cells such as cancer cells and kill them before they spread or grow into tumors.

The 2017 Berkshire horoscope

Happy New Year! Start off 2017 on the right foot with some wisdom to guide your year from The Edge's very own soothsayer, Heebie GB. 

Raymond W. Alexander, 76, of South Egremont, retired New York City firefighter, victim of World Trade Center-linked cancer

During his career he was cited numerous times for conspicuous duties and once for personal bravery in which he slid on a life-saving rope down the rear of a burning tenement to search for trapped occupants.

IN THE FIELD: Revenge of the lawn

If our goal is to surround our homes with sterile patches of uniform green, in pursuit of some vision of suburban perfection, even while raising cancer risks for our children, we should probably reevaluate our priorities.

EPA insists off-site disposal of PCB sediment is preferred option

Studies in humans provide supportive evidence for potential carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic effects of PCBs.

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Death of Cancer,’ overcoming disease in spite of ourselves

“The true story of the war on cancer is not just a war against nature but a war of us against ourselves . . . We have the tools to eradicate cancer.” -- Dr. Vincent T. DeVita Jr.

Dr. Bruce Scott Brown, 82, of Lake Buel, New Marlborough, and Pittsford, N.Y.

Dr. Brown became Chairman of Pathology  at the late, great Genesee Hospital in Rochester where he remained for more than thirty years.el, New Marlborough, But when he retired he took to Country Music and the bass fiddle, with a group named Wild Root.

Archa Beth Hodges, 56, of Great Barrington, teacher at Kripalu Center

Massage therapist, Ayurvedic consultant, yoga and dance teacher, as well as workshop leader, Archa has touched the lives of many, offering healing and love in her unique, quirky and profoundly creative way.

EDGEWISE: Earth Day tribute to three earth activists

Joanna Macy calls our time “The Great Turning,” a critical transition time in human history on the planet, during which we will either learn to live harmoniously and sustainably as stewards of the Earth, or we will be swept away into the maelstrom of the Sixth Great Extinction, caused by our own carelessness and ineptitude.

Eat Well, Live Well: Celebrate late fall vegetables  

The anti-oxidants in leeks are associated with reducing cholesterol production in the liver cells. They also appear to impart anti-bacterial, anti-viral and anti-fungal activities.
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