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INTERVIEW: Villalobos Brothers at the Mahaiwe on Sept. 28

"It's an entire genre that people don't know much about, and we love it, because it features violin naturally, as part of the basic instrumentation." — Luis Villalobos

News Briefs: Alex Morse in Sheffield; CDBG home repair info session

Morse, who grew up in a housing project in Holyoke, attended Brown University and was the first in his family to earn a college degree.

News Briefs: Towns pursue development grants; jail time in domestic violence case

The FY2020 Community Development Block Grant housing rehab program income limits will range from $49,700 for a single-person household up to $98,700 for a family of eight.

Trump’s budget, tax proposals would severely impact Berkshire housing, elder services, infrastructure

“The loss of federal dollars to support the Elder Nutrition Program, which represents one third of the program’s funding, would present a significant challenge to replace." -- John Lutz, executive director of Elder Services of Berkshire County

News Briefs: Free flu shots; BMC’s Cancer Center named to cancer care collaborative; Housatonic infrastructure grant; compressor station health forum; new branch managers at...

Save Burden Lake will present a forum on the health impacts of living within 10 miles of a natural gas pipeline compressor station.

Great Barrington Town Hall Briefs

Planning Board Chairman Jonathan Hankin hopes the designation of volunteers as "Special Municipal Employee" will “encourage more volunteers to fill vacancies on town boards and committees and not prevent all volunteers from doing business in our town,” he wrote in an earlier email to the Selectboard. “We need to reward people who donate their time, energy and considerable expertise in serving the town, not punish them.”

Federal grants to benefit Housatonic and homeowners

'This [grant money] will provide direct assistance to homeowners who need to put a new roof on, get a boiler upgrade, or energy efficient windows.' -- town Planner Christopher Rembold
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