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Suzann Ward of Housatonic Real Estate offers a stunning post and beam home on beautiful grounds with sensational views in a great location. The biggest challenge for architect Andrew Webster of Graphite Studio was to preserve the charm and character of a two-hundred-year-old building while delivering 21st century performance and comfort. A report on real estate sales in the second quarter of 2025. Plus, recent sales and gardening columns and a home-cooking recipe.

Business Briefs: ‘Be Our Guest’ program; BerkShares networking event; Becket Arts Center gains chairlift; Hospice Honors for HospiceCare in the Berkshires; Medicare seminar; Jewish...

The Becket Arts Center has announced the installation of a new mechanized chairlift, which will enable patrons who cannot utilize stairs to reach its second-floor gallery.

Bits & Bytes: ArtWeek plein air sessions; Louise Glück at Williams College; ukulele lesson at Lenox Library; CoA luncheon; Special Olympics New York Spring...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Louise Glück is a former poet laureate of the United States and the author of a dozen widely acclaimed books.

Mastheads: Summoning Berkshires’ literary landscape

Founded in 2016 upon the legacy of five American Renaissance authors who wrote in Pittsfield, the Mastheads is at once an urban architectural experiment, a literary research initiative, a writers’ residency and an educational program.

Bits & Bytes: 10×10 Upstreet Arts Festival; Community Voices Collection; immigration workshop; Sue Morse wildlife presentations; Berkshire South Swim-a-thon

'We believe that our immigrant population is an essential and rich part of our Berkshire community...' -- Berkshire Immigrant Center Executive Director Brooke Mead

Bits & Bytes: Rock the Community; ‘Food for Thought: Dinner with Dar Williams;’ Buddy Walk of the Berkshires; Mike Thornton & Gruppo Mondo at...

On Friday, Sept. 29, volunteers from Bard College at Simon's Rock will travel to sites in and around Great Barrington to perform a variety of services.

Bits & Bytes: Farmer Olympics; Lyme disease talk; Berkshire Crafts Fair; Lenox Dale tour

The disparity between the reality and seriousness of tick-borne infections has led to Lyme and its related diseases being underreported and misdiagnosed.

Berkshire Museum betrays public trust by sale of art collection

In her letter to the editor, Carol Diehl writes: "A museum that would sell its past cannot be trusted with creating its future."

Business Briefs: Berkshire United Way Day of Caring; Monetary awards for Berkshire South; fellowship for Austen Riggs psychologist; grants for Ventfort Hall; ‘Guide to...

An increase from last year’s gift, the combined support provides funding to ensure that all children will benefit from Berkshire South’s summer excursions regardless of their ability to pay for them.

Bits & Bytes: Berkshire Gateway Jazz Weekend; Throwdown Collective at Berkshire Pulse; Dom Flemons at Hancock Shaker Village; Whiffenpoofs benefit performance; Lee Siegel at...

Musician, singer-songwriter and slam poet Dom Flemons is a founder of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, an African-American string band that won a Grammy Award in 2010.

Bits & Bytes: Clinton Church Restoration completes church purchase; unpublished Wharton play discovered; Jackson receives arts award; Morningside Up fundraising dinner

Planning for the ultimate use of the historic A.M.E. Zion Church and a sustainable future for the property is also underway.

Bits & Bytes: Paula Poundstone at Fairview gala; children’s book sale; ‘The Feminine Mystic;’ goat yoga

Poundstone, who last headlined Fairview’s gala in 2012, has a quick-thinking, unscripted approach to comedy that makes for her perfect fit as a regular panelist on NPR’s news quiz show “Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me!”

Bits & Bytes: ‘The Art of the String Quartet;’ baby animals; wildflower festival; Olivier Meslay at Berkshire Museum

Bartholomew's Cobble is dense with unique rock outcroppings, small caves, over 800 plant species–including 29 listed by the Massachusetts Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program­–and 53 species of ferns and fern allies, one of the most diverse and natural assemblages of ferns in the United States.

Business Briefs: Main Street Hospitality to run Hancock Shaker Village cafe; film production workshop; Salisbury Bank buys Empire State Bank branch; Bartini receives architectural...

Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation distributed over $708,000 in grants to individuals, schools and nonprofits and grants totaling nearly $800,000 from donors with charitable funds at the foundation during its 2016 winter grants cycle.

A message of thanks on behalf of youth and history

In his letter to the editor Will Conklin writes: “Greenagers has worked since 2009 to engage teens and young adults in meaningful work in environmental conservation, sustainable farming, and natural resource management.”

Bits & Bytes: Joshua Bell, Alessio Bax at the Mahaiwe; flu clinics; Robert Hite film screening; Elizabeth Cook at Club Helsinki; Morris Bennett artist...

The intent of the "Visual Poetry of Suburban Pittsfield" exhibit is to demonstrate the fact that one's neighborhood can be as suitable a subject matter for paintings as any of the more classic views of the Berkshires.

Business Briefs: Housatonic River east branch restoration; manufacturing equipment unveiled at BCC; 1Berkshire Trendsetters; Hancock Shaker Village appoints new president; new Classics on Hudson...

As MASS MoCA’s director of development from 1988 to 2012, Jennifer Trainer Thompson helped raise some $70 million for operations and programs, including the Permanence Campaign that launched the Museum’s endowment and Sol LeWitt building.
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