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The 90 percent solution: Lowering taxes for year-round residents

There is no universal fix to help all of our challenges, but one instrument the state has given towns to sustain and stabilize their full-time population is the residential tax exemption.

After selectman is blasted for role in ousting fire chief, West Stockbridge looks to heal itself

Eventually, the healing started when the select board called up Steve Traver, the interim chief from Richmond, to explain the path forward.

West Stockbridge fire chief forced out in wake of ethics violations and departmental ‘dysfunction’

After the motion to place him on leave passed, Skorput resigned and walked angrily out of the meeting room in Town Hall, followed by other fire department members and supporters.

Bits & Bytes: Woofstock 2019; Community at Bat; black history heritage hike; First Fridays Artswalk; adult education classes

The Community Development Corporation of South Berkshire will hold its third annual Community at Bat charity softball game Sunday, September 8, at Memorial Field Park on Bridge Street.

Bits & Bytes: ‘Living Longer, Living Better’; Grow Show; Stockbridge Art Walk; ‘Screenplay by Stalin’; children’s music at Lenox Library

New to the Grow Show is a digital photography show, a children’s edible arrangement workshop, and the men’s floral design competition “Game of Flowers.”

Bits & Bytes: Stockbridge Art Walk; ‘Thinking About Today’s Supreme Court’; ‘Showdown’ at Berkshire Museum; ‘BubbleMania!’ at Lenox Library; ‘Songs and Sayings’ at Bascom...

Linda Greenhouse is the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph M. Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, and writes a biweekly opinion column for the New York Times on the Court and the law.

Bits & Bytes: OLLI art show; RWSAG art show; comedy at the Barn; end-of-season cabaret

The exhibit includes works of more than 30 local artists who work in diverse media including oil and watercolor painting, pastels, colored pencil, photography, sculpture and pottery.

Bits & Bytes: ‘Visions of America in Art and Song;’ WAM to restage ‘Emilie…;’ Lenox in 10Best; CoA luncheon; youth poetry workshop

The town of Lenox has been included in USA TODAY’s annual 10Best Readers' Choice travel award contest.
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