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Feeling disillusioned after attending my first Stockbridge Town Meeting

While I expected debate on Article 17 to be heated, I assumed that transparent and consistently applied rules would govern the meeting. What I observed instead was a concerted effort to put the citizens who submitted the petition at the grossest possible disadvantage.

Bits & Bytes: Swing dancing at Dewey Hall; ‘Springside After Dark’; health lecture at Fairview; ‘Gem of the Valley’

'Nutritional Strategies to Treat Acid Reflux' will include the impact of diet on acid reflux and also cover foods that are helpful and those to avoid.

Bits & Bytes: Berkshire Playwrights Lab gala; ‘A Novel Night Out: Chapter Two’; Berkshire Dance Party & Cabaret; ‘MORE Room for IMPROVment

With help from friends from Monument Mountain Regional High School, Friday’s performances will mark third annual wholly original night of comedy written and performed by students from Berkshire Waldorf High School.

Business Briefs: GALAxy fundraiser a success; charging stations at Hawthorne Valley; new academic dean at Miss Hall’s; project leadership workshop; ‘Best Practices’ status for...

Hawthorne Valley has announced the installation of six destination charging stations for electric vehicles in its parking lot. The stations are available for public use, free of charge, and were installed in partnership with Tesla.

Bits & Bytes: Shakespeare & Company gala; ‘Inhabitants of Childhood’ opening; Urban Bush Women at Club Helsinki Hudson; Guatemalan education talk; Open Mic Music...

The residents of rural Maya village Copal AA la Esperanza in Guatemala have founded a community-run middle school that focuses on indigenous culture, human rights and sustainable forestry.

Bits & Bytes: Berkshire Gateway Jazz Weekend; Grizzly Bear at MASS MoCA; ‘A Novel Night Out’; HVA Stream Teams; waste oil & paint collection

Inspired by the recent inclusion of Lenox as one of Expedia’s must-see literary destinations, 'A Novel Night Out' will benefit the programs and activities of the Lenox Library.

Bits & Bytes: Lenox Rhubarb Festival; LGBTQ Dance Party and Cabaret; ‘Calder in Conversation;’ local edibles walk and talk

Only in My Dreams Events will present the third annual Dance Party and Cabaret celebration of Pride Month and the diversity of LGBTQ culture in the Berkshires.

Business Briefs: Berkshire United Way Day of Caring; Monetary awards for Berkshire South; fellowship for Austen Riggs psychologist; grants for Ventfort Hall; ‘Guide to...

An increase from last year’s gift, the combined support provides funding to ensure that all children will benefit from Berkshire South’s summer excursions regardless of their ability to pay for them.

Bits & Bytes: First Fridays Artswalk; Berkshire Dance Party & Cabaret; ‘Dance!!! For Dogs and Cats;’ beginners’ birding workshop; ‘Jerusalem in the Woods’

Berkshire Dance Party and Cabaret attendees will be able to walk the pink carpet, sing along in the piano bar, send and receive messages at Berkshire Flirt’s post office, dance to music spun by DJ BFG, and enjoy visual projections by Joe Wheaton.

Bits & Bytes: First Fridays Artswalk; Chesterwood/Boston Athenaeum collaboration; Ghana ThinkTank at WCMA; American Brass Quintet at Hotchkiss; Gabriel Squalia book launch; Deborah Hanlon...

Williams College Museum of Art commissioned the project with Ghana ThinkTank as part of the 2016–17 campus-wide academic program called “Confronting Climate Change,” a series of events, talks, and initiatives aimed at raising issues around climate change.

Bits & Bytes: MASSGathering; ‘The Taming’ at Shakespeare & Co.; Lenox Rhubarb Festival; ‘As Was and As Is;’ EPA Brownfields assessment and clean-up funds

The Rhubard Festival will feature a rhubarb chili contest among Lenox restaurant chefs, an assortment of sweet and savory rhubarb creations from local bakers, and a Rhubarb Shop Walk.

Bits & Bytes: Bella’s Bartok at the Colonial; railroad history talk; WAM Theatre to present ‘The Last Wife;’ storytelling at the Mount; organic gardening...

Passenger trains were an important part of southern Berkshire County’s transportation infrastructure for a number of years. There were as many as six round trips per day to New York City through Danbury at the beginning of the 20th century, and the railroads still ran two round trips per day into the 1960s.

Bits & Bytes: Events and news of note in the Berkshires

Behold! New Lebanon Aug. 29 tours; Camphill Ghent volunteers honored; Knosh & Knowledge at Hevreh, with a lecture on anti-Semitism in France; Jacob’s Pillow honors outgoing executive director Ella Baff.
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