The annual Martin Luther King service will reflect the joint themes of social action and awareness, and will include inspirational readings as well as music by the Temple Anshe Amunim and First Baptist Church choirs.
“More people are getting what it means to be out in nature. We get so keyed into electronic stuff, but the literature is out that there’s such a mental health benefit to time spent in nature.
-- Deborah Phillips
It is “disappointing” that while there will be some drainage improvements to Great Barrington’s Main Street from the reconstruction project, there aren’t more significant changes. He expressed concern about a large stormwater pipe that releases into the river, near the skateboard park off Bridge Street.
---Landscape designer Craig Okerstrom-Lang
Barbara Watkins, owner of Evergreen Fine American Crafts, has led the I Dig GB campaign, organizing sales and special events to draw people to Great Barrington even during the rockiest periods of Main Street Reconstruction.
David Inglis is “very generous” to “give up development rights on land so he can farm there and protect wildlife."
-- Conservancy legal counsel Ira Kaplan
