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AT BERKSHIRE BUSK!: Week of July 10, 2025

Saturday nights feature an artisan market on Railroad Street.

Bits & Bytes: Hancock Shaker Village Country Fair; rescheduled Berkshire Jazz Showcase; tree care talk; Kung Fu at the Colonial; Community Conversations recap

The 'Save a Tree' workshop will focus on supporting the health of the red oak adjacent to River Walk on Bridge Street.

Business Briefs: Youth Leadership Program graduates; CHP welcomes Clancy to board; Stanyon joins NPC board; BCC hires Obasohan; staff changes at Jack Miller contractors

Dan Stanyon is a vice president and trust officer with Salisbury Bank and Trust Company and holds the Certified Trust and Financial Advisor designation.

Business Briefs: Asian market opens in Great Barrington; ‘Giving Back’ guide; new VIM Berkshires board member; Roots Rising becomes nonprofit; grant for Villages in...

Roots Rising was launched in 2017 as a farm-based youth development program focused on providing meaningful work to Pittsfield teens.

Business Briefs: Lenox seeks cultural district designation; Jewish Women’s Foundation grants; new Barrington Stage board member; William Pitt Sotheby’s names brokerage manager; BTCF grant...

A cultural district must be a walkable, compact area centered on existing amenities, but the benefits of the designation extend beyond formal downtown borders.

NATURE’S TURN: Birch trees seed the new year; farmers feed seasonal favorites

Yellow birch, with its glistening golden bark that lifts and curls like paper birch, and black birch, also known as sweet or cherry birch, are mainstays of our Berkshire landscape.

Bits & Bytes: ‘BEDFELLOWS’ at LABspace; Will Allen at Williams; Linda Purl at the Egremont Barn; Otis Arts Festival; Downtown Pittsfield Farmers Market season...

A former professional basketball player, Will Allen is now a practitioner of urban agriculture whose methods of composting, vermicomposting, and aquaponics result in remarkable yields of food in small growing areas.

Bits & Bytes: Lecture by audio expert Edgar Choueiri; ‘From the Garden: Still Life’ art exhibit; cellist David Gibson at Camphill Ghent; Pittsfield Repair...

Children attending Berkshire Museum’s summer programs and activities will learn about growing and harvesting vegetables.

Bits & Bytes: Fifth annual 10×10 Upstreet Arts Festival; Chinese New Year celebration; Ramsdell Library Sundays; Williams diversity series; EP from Oakes and Smith

Week Five of winter Sunday afternoons at Ramsdell Public Library, the focus will be on the suffragette movement in the United States and Great Britain.

Bits & Bytes: GBFD rope rescue training; ‘Gardening to Save the World;’ Farm to Glass Throwdown; organ recital in Salisbury; Town of GB to...

GB Fire Department’s rope rescue training weekend Great Barrington -- On the weekend of October 31, members of the Great Barrington Fire Department, along with members...

Bits & Bytes: Chamber honors George Smith; Mahaiwe’s IMPACT campaign; Shapiro named Shakespeare & Co. vice chair; Double Value at Farmer’s Market

The Double Value Program is a money-matching program available to mothers, senior citizens, and low-income residents who are using their SNAP, WIC, and Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program benefits.

Bits & Bytes: W. E. B. Du Bois guided walking tours; “The Unexpected Man” in Lenox; Double Value Program at the Pittsfield Farmers’ Market

The Downtown Pittsfield Farmers Market has the potential to serve more low-income residents than any other market in the Berkshires because of its location in Pittsfield.
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