The Local Farmer Awards recently gave $142,500 in amounts up to $2,500 to 62 farmers in western Massachusetts and eastern New York for materials and equipment to make infrastructure improvements.
“Songs about Fantastic Beasts: Very old music about animals on ancient instruments” will feature lively songs from Spain, Italy and England during which kids of all ages will learn about unusual early instruments and singing, as well as hear music that includes chickens clucking, bees buzzing and crickets chirping.
While few of us will miss the tollbooths on the Mass Pike, it’s fascinating to learn that some two-centuries-old tollhouses are still intact in the greater Berkshires.
After weeks of specialized care in multiple hospitals, Hermanski is making improvements and recently regained the abilities to move her limbs, breathe on her own again and speak.
BerkShares' “Entry to Entrepreneurship” is business education that is community-supported, community-taught, and focused on inspiring ‘import-replacement’ businesses that will fill gaps in the local economy.
Isaacs created a design for the currency, BerkShares, that was inspired by the Euro, one that was elegant, contemporary, and “looked as good as global, but had a local feel.”