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Welcome to Real Estate Friday!

Karen Climo of William Pitt Sotheby's International Realty offers a newly constructed residence in a perfect location, designed for the ultimate in sophistication and convenience. See how architect Pamela Sandler transformed a lake house on the shores of Lake Onota. A report on real estate sales in the first quarter of 2025. Plus, recent sales and gardening columns and a home-cooking recipe.

Mayfest in Place to support affordable housing

Construct encourages posting a video on Facebook to show others that attending a fundraiser remotely can be fun while at the same time providing help to our most vulnerable neighbors.

Coronavirus impact: Some South County businesses close, some struggle, others do well

If you're a restaurant owner who wants to stay open in the midst of a public health crisis such as the coronavirus pandemic, you essentially have one choice: trying to eke out a living by offering take-out, and perhaps delivery.

Town Hall Briefs: Ailing bridges, traffic nightmares and other tales of woe

Whether one lane of the Brown Bridge is closed during construction or whether it is shut down altogether, the construction will be a major disruption to traffic, especially considering the fact that the town-owned Division Street bridge was closed by the state in the second week of September.

Great Barrington residents vent about speeding, ‘scandalous’ bridge closures

At Monday's Great Barrington Selectboard meeting at the Claire Teague Senior Center, concerns ranged from traffic, speeding, and the impact the closure of the Division Street and Cottage Street bridges are having on businesses and residents alike.

Alan Chartock: I Publius and the New York Express

A Chartock merit award to Great Barrington’s Steve Picheny for getting Peter Pan Bus Line to create an express bus from New York City to Great Barrington.

Officials: Temporary repair to Cottage Street bridge out of the question

Town manager Mark Pruhenski told the audience that such a move might force the town alone to pay the costs of replacement.

As selectboard mulls new alcohol policy, GB package store owners fail to stop additional licenses

The state sets a quota for the total number of licenses based on year-round population. Census figures set Great Barrington at two all-alcohol licenses and five beer-and-wine licenses. But the town currently has eight total licenses, only one of which is beer-and-wine only.

Cadre of residents, merchants look to repeal plastic water bottle ban

While a long list of businesses and other organizations said they supported the new bylaw, it did not sit did well with a number of other merchants, who felt the ban would harm their businesses or who objected on the grounds of legislative overreach. 

Woman who gave bank teller fake distress note is arraigned, denies writing it

Great Barrington police interviewed Eloisa Garcia-Gaspar and said she denied passing the note.

Great Barrington woman arrested after Berkshire Bank drive-thru incident

Eloisa Garcia-Gaspar was charged with disorderly conduct, obstruction of justice, and interfering with a police officer, all for passing a false note, lying in an investigation, and causing a disturbance.

Bits & Bytes: Steepletop benefit; BCC house concert; Paul Green CD release; Mass. tax amnesty; Paul D. Solovay art opening

The 2016 Tax Amnesty Program offers individuals and businesses the opportunity to catch up on back taxes and save on penalties.

EUSTIS ON FOOD: Homemade pasta

Pasta feeds children well. It is cheap, and serves as a vehicle to deliver any number of lovely sauces. But there is so much more there, so much more flavor, in fresh pasta, and it is much better for you.

Bits & Bytes: Crescendo concert; CEWM at The Mount; New Marlborough wine tasting; SKYWARN® training class; ‘The Magic of Light’ in South Lee

“Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Instrument Collection,” sponsored by Close Encounters with Music at The Mount in Lenox on Sunday, November 15.
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