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BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT: Southern Berkshire Ambulance Squad—at risk of its own state of emergency

SBAS has been coming to the rescue of Southern Berkshire County since 1968. It is now part of a study aimed at evaluating the critical challenges facing EMS providers across the district.

Our border crisis

If Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua are now countries to flee, shouldn’t we know that we helped to make that happen?

Susan Bryant Protheroe, 78, of Monterey

She taught special education and English as a Second Language, worked as a children's librarian, and was an avid storyteller.

ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage

The aid [that Trump threatens to cut] is part of a bipartisan program designed by the Obama Administration to reduce illegal immigration.

AMPLIFICATIONS: Absence of kindness

To me it is fundamentally obvious that racism is at the heart of those most loyal to Trump. Underlying meaning of “Make America Great” again is really “Make America White Again.”

As young as one

Recently, our attention has been split by the plight of the Thai boys trapped in the cave, and the bizarre behavior of President Trump in Brussels, the United Kingdom and Helsinki. And yet there are thousands of parents and children trapped in a kind of hell, waiting to find each other.

America’s new policy toward immigrants: Kids in cages, families imprisoned

This time, thankfully, the free press that our president mocks day after day as fake gave us the chance to hear firsthand from these mothers and fathers and their children, to see for ourselves the cages the children were sent to and to hear their cries.

Local immigrants, living in fear, since election of Donald Trump

These young Guatemalan men speak to me now because President-elect Donald Trump has instilled a fear that was previously limited to the dangers of crime and corruption in Guatemala and those desperate trials at the border.

Bits & Bytes: Berkshire Baby Box fundraiser; Guatemala education talk; Phyllis Kornfeld talk; waste oil & paint collection; ‘Henry VI.six’ at Shake & Co.;...

Newly launched nonprofit Berkshire Baby Box offers a welcome gift for new moms: a box filled with supplies that aid in the care of newborns. The box doubles as a safe sleeping place for the baby.

EDGEWISE: Shop fair for the holidays

We are all connected in this world we share and have a responsibility to take care of each other.

Finding the fun in Fair Trade: A local entrepreneur forges global connections

“I have a passion for helping women become able to support themselves and get fair wages and a source of income. Te Berkshires is a very supportive and progressive community. People here get what fair trade is." -- Sue Fish of the Women's Peace Collection
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