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Tag: Houston

Obituaries

Dr. Jared Maurice Emery, 79, of Lenox

Jared’s hard work earned him a reputation for excellence around the world. He was humbled to operate on figures such as President George H. W. Bush, Lady Bird Johnson, and many others who traveled to him in Houston from around the globe.

by Edge Staff
Posted on December 4, 2019
Obituaries

Sherwood Cooley, 90, of Lenox

Sherry spent 25 years teaching and making a difference in children’s lives at Kinkaid Academy in Houston, Texas.

by Edge Staff
Posted on November 13, 2019
Arts & Entertainment

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1969 moon landing at the Norman Rockwell Museum

Norman Rockwell was likely entrenched in his daily routine on that long-ago summer afternoon, one that included riding his bike down Main Street and observing passersby from the expansive northern-facing windows of his second-floor studio in Stockbridge.

by Hannah Van Sickle
Posted on July 19, 2019
Business

Business Briefs: Toppan Printing to acquire Interprint; Good Vibrations Dinner; the Mount named top historic home; grants for Shake & Co.; Salisbury Bank promotions

The Mount has announced its inclusion in Architectural Digest’s recent feature on “12 of America’s Best Historic Homes to Visit.”

by Emily Edelman
Posted on June 26, 2019
Arts & Entertainment

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Uninhabitable Earth,’ a grisly, sobering look at climate change

“It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn’t happening at all …”

by Dook Snyder
Posted on April 6, 2019
Life In the Berkshires

Bits & Bytes: Troika al la Russe’ at the Mahaiwe; ‘Resisting Repression’ at Mason Library; Race Mountain Spring Banquet; rabies, microchip clinic

The talk is the first sponsored by the W. E. B. Du Bois Legacy Committee as well as the first in a series of lectures by UMass visiting scholars, co-sponsored by the town of Great Barrington and UMass.

by Emily Edelman
Posted on March 18, 2019
Viewpoints

A year that will live in infamy: It’s time to act on climate 

Editor’s Note: Through an editing error an earlier version of this article incorrectly identified the author as David Scribner. The author is Mark Reynolds. Those of us who understand the threat posed by climate change have been waiting for the “Pearl Harbor moment” that galvanizes people and politicians alike into taking action to minimize that

by Mark Reynolds
Posted on September 6, 2018
Obituaries

Louis Zimmerman, 69, of Great Barrington

He became a partner at the international law firm of Fulbright and Jaworski and worked for 40 years in its Houston, Washington and Austin offices.

by Edge Staff
Posted on July 16, 2018
Arts & Entertainment

BOOK REVIEW: ‘daddy closet’ by CD Nelsen

The chapbook is a brilliant work of art in its way of revealing how seemingly fleeting events in our lives can have enormous impact on memory, leaving lasting impressions in spite of or because of the careless actions of others.

by Colin Harrington
Posted on April 2, 2018
Obituaries

The Very Rev. Walter Taylor, 79, of Lenox and Key West, Fla.

In Texas, Taylor helped foster the creation of New Hope Housing, which pioneered the approach in Houston of using single-room occupancy housing coupled with intensive counseling and employment support services to help solve chronic homelessness among city residents.

by Edge Staff
Posted on December 5, 2017
News

News Briefs: Green energy program to generate savings; GB retains AAA bond rating

Participating residents and businesses will see an average savings of 8.48 percent in their monthly energy bills during the contract term as compared with the basic service rate.

by Edge Staff
Posted on October 12, 2017
Viewpoints

LEONARD QUART: City of flux

One wants to see some of the grit and buildings on the Bowery preserved. The street had a distinctive personality, and an aesthetic of its own.

by Leonard Quart
Posted on February 15, 2016
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