Stephen Schoenfeld of William Pitt Sotheby’s International Real Estate offers a magnificent retreat in the heart of the Berkshires with pool, tennis court, and pond on 25 beautiful acres.
See how architect Pamela Sandler transformed a lake house on the shores of Lake Onota. A report on real estate sales in the first quarter of 2025. Plus, recent sales and gardening columns and a home-cooking recipe.
In her letter to the editor, Susan Bachelder writes: "We are not much better than ISIS in Palmyra, destroying artifacts of a culture with which we disagree."
The executive order targets the wrong people, complicates an already extreme vetting process that works, and damages our relationship with allies all while giving a new recruiting tool to extremists.
Usually, the so-called “baby” town meeting attracts little attention and less attendance. This year, however, the session was far from routine, very contentious, and packed with concerned citizens. The Town Hall conference room was jammed to capacity with more than 100 residents, and if this session were any indicator, next week’s May 18 Annual Town Meeting could be a real donnybrook.
It is a sad commentary on our society — and even our own little neighborhood here in the Berkshires — that a local woman who felt strongly enough about the offensiveness of Charlie Hebdo’s mockery of Islam to write about it for EdgeWise, still felt she could not risk attaching her name and face to her opinions.
It’s not so comfortable to recognize the ways in which all of us are implicated in the murderous events unfolding before our shocked and horrified gaze. As always, it helps to follow the money. If we’re honest, we have to admit that the money trail leads straight from our cars’ gasoline tanks to the terrorists blowing up themselves and others in the name of Allah.
