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Thousands attend No Kings rallies all across Berkshire County

“We have a constitutional right to speak up and speak out,” Pittsfield rally co-organizer Robin O’Herin told The Berkshire Edge. “He is stealing our government and turning it into an autocracy and a dictatorship”

ORANGE ALERT: Praise me

'Don’t call the governor of Washington; you’re wasting your time with him. Don’t call the woman in Michigan. It doesn’t make any difference what happens.'

News Brief: Lenox to hold hazard mitigation listening workshop

These goals and projects were identified through a day-long resilience building workshop held at Lenox Town Hall in November 2019, where a diverse collection of stakeholders convened to learn about the risks posed by climate change and how the community could be impacted in the not-so-distant future.

News Briefs: Division Street bridge to close to vehicular traffic; federal grant for Lee firefighters

Barriers and detour signage will be installed to alert drivers to the closure of the Division Street bridge over the Housatonic River. The bridge will remain open to pedestrian and bike traffic.

REVIEW: Barrington Stage’s ‘Fall Springs’ is a cartoon, and not a good one

There is a cautionary environmental tale in 'Falls Springs,' and highfalutin moral lessons, too, but it’s all played so broadly, it’s just plain silly.

Bits & Bytes: Oldtone Roots Music Festival; emergency skills training; ‘Our World Remade: World War I”; ‘The Field is the World’ at WCMA; ‘Mar-a-Lago:...

In conjunction with National Preparedness Month, Fairview Hospital will host a series of classes during September to improve the community’s emergency response skills.

Business Briefs: U.S.-China publishing partnership; new managing director at Shakespeare & Co.; ‘HR for Nonprofits’; United Way applications sought; Greylock promotions

Adam Davis produced the L.A. County Holiday Celebration, an annual event at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion of the Music Center of Los Angeles featuring 600 performing artists from the county’s myriad cultural communities, for which he received an Emmy Award in 2013.

Bits & Bytes: Equipment grant for GBFD; Egremont zoning changes; Behold! New Lebanon tours; Hilda Banks Shapiro CD release; Laszlo Gordony Quartet; ‘tree-torials’ at...

Hilda Banks Shapiro began taking piano lessons when she was 4 years old and, at 16, made her solo debut at Carnegie Hall in New York City and Symphony Hall in Boston.

Business Briefs: HSV restoration grant; emergency food, shelter applications sought; CHP farmers’ market; SomethinsGottaGive gallery opens

In an effort to bring healthy farm produce to South County families, Community Health Programs (CHP) will launch its summer farmers market on Thursday, June 16, from 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Highland Woods: An amazing accomplishment!

In his letter to the editor, Van Ellet of Williamstown writes: "This has been a real community effort in almost every sense of the word, and an example of what can happen when the community comes together."

Selectboard gives fairgrounds go-ahead

"It is a general blessing to proceed,” said Janet Elsbach, of the Great Barrington Fair Ground (GBFG). The situation has evolved into “a constructive partnership” between the organization and the town.
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