In July in a tavern in Stockbridge, 60 delegates drew up and signed the “League and Covenant.” It was the first combined opposition to Royal rule in Berkshire.
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Parking lot government: A Great Barrington town meeting for the ages
If the town meeting is not able to pass a budget by the end of the fiscal year on June 30, the town of Great Barrington, like hundreds of other small municipalities in the state with a town-meeting form of government, has a problem.
Lawrence Martin, 81, of Egremont
Dee proudly served in the U.S. Army and was the owner of the former Taconic Builders Supply in Great Barrington.
CONNECTIONS: Christmas — as we know it — began in Stockbridge
Christmas as we know it—the trees and wreaths, bells and caroling, gifts and good food—is a 19th-century invention. The authors, literally, of the modern celebration were a Stockbridge spinster and a German immigrant: Catharine Sedgwick and Charles Follen.
Reformer Judith Knight running for Berkshire County District Attorney ‘to get real change’
A Lee resident, Knight has, since 2006, been in private practice in Great Barrington. About 80 percent of her practice has been in criminal defense, with most of the remainder of her practice in mediation.
ON FILM: BIFF bears witness to truth, opens with ‘American Animals’
The film was complicated but enriched by actually showing the real students,14 years later, after serving prison time for the consequences of their crime.