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Amid budget-cutting ritual Great Barrington libraries become a target

“Sometimes the easiest thing to do is cut some of the lowest hanging fruit but sometimes it’s a matter of taking a bigger picture and stepping outside and seeing what can be done for the community as a whole.”

— Local businesswoman Ilana Siegal, addressing the Selectboard on proposed cuts to the town libraries

by Terry Cowgill
Posted on April 8, 2018
Life In the Berkshires

First Saturday Free Films opens with Nora Ephron documentary at Mason Library

“The mission of the Friends of the Library is, first of all, to bring people to the library.”

by David Scribner
Posted on September 2, 2017
Letters

Legislative pay raise is unwarranted, unethical

In her letter to the editor, Rachel Branch writes: “No one ought to be legislating better pay and benefits for themselves while being part of the Legislature…an outrageous conflict of interest.”

by Letter to the editor
Posted on February 22, 2017
Letters

A Sunday afternoon at Ramsdell Library

In her letter to the editor, Michelle Loubert of Housatonic writers: “The Friends of the Library provide refreshments for library visitors offering a warm, inviting atmosphere, akin to visiting the home of a good friend.”

by Letter to the editor
Posted on February 15, 2016
Letters

Sundays at Ramsdell Library a big success

In a letter to the editor, Great Barrington Library Trustee Ed Abrahams writes: “Nearly 60 people came to use the [Ramsdell] library … on the first Sunday the library was open.”

by Letter to the editor
Posted on January 13, 2016
News

Library staff, trustees at loggerheads over Sunday hours at Ramsdell

No one has come up with one single reason why it wouldn’t be advantageous to the residents of Housatonic and Great Barrington and the surrounding towns [to have Sunday hours at Ramsdell Library]”
— Holly Hamer, member of Friends of the Libraries and former library trustee

by Heather Bellow
Posted on August 20, 2015
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