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‘Luxury’ project could jeopardize Stockbridge water supply

To the editor: At our May, 2024 Town Meeting in Stockbridge, we voted $50,000 for a study of the "safe yield" of our Stockbridge water supply. Why? Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection wrote a letter stating that our Town water supply lacked the capacity for our 740 "connects" in a drought. So, Stockbridge began a "Safe Yield Study" at Lake Averic in September 2024, to be completed this November. Curiously, before our $50,000 water capacity study reaches conclusion, members of our Select Board rush to approval of a "35-37 Interlaken" schematic presentation,...

CONNECTIONS: Culture in the country, culture in the city

The Sketch Club was founded by Berkshire native and Great Barrington attorney William Cullen Bryant. With friends, Bryant transformed the Sketch Club into the Century Association.

CONNECTIONS: Stonover Farm and the Sugar Trust scandal

Berkshire cottager John E. Parsons was 80 years old when he was indicted, with a 60-year career in the law. The year before, in 1908, the New York Times reported “Parsons is believed to have the finest law practice in the country.”

CONNECTIONS: The cruelest cut for tree-loving Stockbridge

So by those calculations, Stockbridge just lost between $200,000 and $400,000 when it cut down a 100-year-old tree.
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