Blantyre, a Relais & Chateaux property, has announced a property-wide expansion program.
Tag: Community Land Trust in the Southern Berkshires
Business Briefs: Berkshire Workforce Skills Cabinet meeting; new land trust board members; grant for collaborative workspaces; Toole is Pacesetter of the Year; Mellon grant for Williams
A grant of $147,572 will support design, renovation and repairs at the Studio for Integrated Craft in Housatonic, the former Housatonic Curtain Company mill at 430 Park St.
Bits & Bytes: ‘Growing an Agricultural Economy’; ‘Step Up: Empowering Ourselves’; Humane Race; ‘Odeon’ at MASS MoCA; Greener Gateway roadside cleanup
The Four Freedom Coalition’s ‘Step Up: Empowering Ourselves’ will focus on specific issues, how they affect the community, and what the public can do at the local level to address them.
Sobering ‘Next Generation’ MCAS test results recorded by Berkshire Hills, Southern Berkshire students
Only 15 percent of Berkshire Hills third graders met or exceeded expectations in reading ability, compared to a state average of 47 percent, with 25 percent meeting the same threshold in SBRSD.
Bits & Bytes: Land trusts meeting; Earth Day writing workshop; wine tasting benefit; juried art exhibition; candidate meet and greet
David Bollier is an author, activist, blogger and independent scholar with a primary focus on the commons as a new paradigm for economics, politics and culture.
BerkShares Business of the Month: Indian Line Farm
“Community Supported Agriculture is a relationship between farmers and consumers. It is sharing the risk and also sharing the bounty… the term was literally coined in my dining room in 1986.”
— Elizabeth Keen, owner of Indian Line Farm in South Egremont, Massachusetts