Stormy weather prompts me to run around and gather cut flowers that might be pummeled in a heavy rainstorm. Peony and poppy flowers often shatter in heavy rain.
“People are hurting and we need to do something about it, to make our principal source of revenue progressive."
-- Michael Wise, member of the Great Barrington Finance Committee
"Great Barrrington is the only community in Berkshire County with a large business center that does not employ a split tax rate."
--School Committee member Richard Dohoney
“It appears to me that they’ve stacked the numbers to make it look as rebuilding the school or simply repairing it would cost the same."
-- Finance Committee Chairman Sharon Gregory
Candidates representing support for the policies and direction of the Select Board and Town Manager prevailed over challengers who portrayed Great Barrington as in crisis, proclaiming the town needed “to be taken back.”
In about 10 years Great Barrington should have newly reconfigured water lines and sewer system, bike lanes on all the major roads to offer an alternative to the automobile, a renovated railroad line to the New York Metropolitan Area.
