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Courtney Maum’s ‘Before and After the Book Deal’ helps writers know what to expect
Maum calls on more than 150 experts in their respective fields, from agents and authors to editors and publishers, who reveal everything one might want to know about publishing but was afraid to ask.
Business Briefs: Williams Inn opens; Red Lion Inn welcomes Burnell; Miss Hall’s hires dean; new Greenagers board member; Salisbury Bank Community Day
Robert Burnell has been appointed executive chef of all dining venues at the Red Lion Inn.
Ruth Bosley, 83, of Rowley, formerly of North Adams
Ruth was a waitress for many years at the Howard Johnson’s on the turnpike and then the former Cricket Restaurant in Great Barrington.
Over the Border: N.Y. State Properties
Lindsay Lebrecht of Copake Lake Realty offers a selection of beautiful N.Y. state properties!
Bits & Bytes: ‘Studio 54’ at the Moviehouse; BSO at MCLA; Moors & McCumber at Dewey Hall; ‘Fantastic Terrors’ at Ventfort Hall; fuel assistance concert
As part of the BSO Community Chamber Concert series’ ongoing artistic exchange program, students from Berkshire Children and Families’ Kids 4 Harmony program will present a special pre-concert program at 2:30 p.m.
Business Briefs: New topiary garden for BBG; Berkshire Leadership Forum; Pietrantone joins Jacob’s Pillow; BCC interim nursing director; succession planning seminar
A.J. Pietrantone joins Jacob’s Pillow with more than 30 years experience as an executive at a broad range of nonprofits.
Bits & Bytes: Open Days garden tours; fine woodwork show; Harvey Granat at Berkshire South; Pittsfield Repair Cafe
The fine woodwork show will feature designs by professional woodworkers from throughout the Berkshires; Columbia County, New York; and surrounding areas.
Business Briefs: Excellence Award for Berkshire Immigrant Center; LEEF grant recipients; EFSP application sought; artists’ guild name change; business-growing seminar
The Richmond-West Stockbridge Artists Guild has changed its name to the Guild of Berkshire Artists.
Bits & Bytes: Berkshire Earth Expo; ‘Embrace Your Voice’ at Stockbridge Library; Wildflower Festival; ‘Chasing Coral’ at the Moviehouse; Girls’ empowerment concert
The “Embrace Your Voice, Reclaim Your Power: Changing the Dialogue Surrounding Sexual Assault” series will provide the community with an opportunity to talk about and understand sexual violence.
Bits & Bytes: ‘Writers in the House’ at The Mount; Pittsfield Green Drinks; ‘Vertigo’ screening; Riverbrook artist at Red Lion Inn
Starring Kim Novak, James Stewart, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore and Ellen Corby, “Vertigo” is considered one of Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest cinematic achievements.
Business Briefs: BIO annual convention; nonprofit awards nominations sought; grant for CHP; the Moviehouse to install elevator; awards for Balance Rock advisors
The Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires is launching an annual awards program to recognize those who work in the nonprofit sector to serve the Berkshire community.
Joan Carter, 86, of South Egremont, fashion executive
As an early innovator and a fast-moving fashion executive, Joan held many positions at the highest levels of publishing and fashion, both in Los Angeles and New York.
Bits & Bytes: Parade of Lights; ‘Messiah’ sing-in; ‘A Day in the Life of a Girl and Boy’ family day; ‘The Little Mermaid;’ Monica Rizzio at the Egremont Barn
At the Norman Rockwell Museum family day author Will Lach will hold a reading and talk about the books, and have a conversation with model Mary Whalen Leonard, who posed for several of Rockwell’s most beloved paintings.
Business Briefs: Tanglewood Airbnb hosts earn nearly $2 million; Berkshire Business Confidence Index results; grant for Berkshire Community Diaper Project; ‘Best of Hudson Valley’ for Peony Vodka; farming workshop series
Seventy-four percent of Berkshire Business Confidence Index survey respondents indicated strongly that they expect their businesses to look moderately to substantially different in the next 10 years.
Business Briefs: Pine Island Farm named Dairy Farm of the Year; nonprofit benefits survey; emergency preparedness seminar; Native Habitat Restoration receives Patriot Award; talent development workshop
The Green Pasture Award is given every year to one outstanding dairy farm in each of the New England states.
Business Briefs: CIP gains senior advisor; NEPR moves to BCC; new head chef for Stagecoach Tavern; banking class in Spanish; Shred Day at Salisbury Bank
Berkshire Community College has announced that New England Public Radio’s Berkshire bureau has moved its office to BCC’s main campus.
Bits & Bytes: ‘NOCA in the Berkshires;’ Chuck Collins at Oblong Books; Posh Picnic at Tanglewood; household hazardous waste collection
Born into the 1 percent, Chuck Collins gave away his inheritance at the age of 26 and spent the next three decades mobilizing against inequality.
Bits & Bytes: Family Day at 37 Interlaken; SuperTone Music Festival; Glenn Miller Orchestra at MMRHS; Jewish Festival of Books; ‘Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman’ at the Moviehouse
On Thursday, July 20, at 7:30 p.m., Berkshire Bash will present “A Legend Lives On,” featuring the Glenn Miller Orchestra at Monument Mountain Regional High School. Special guests: the MMRHS Jazz Band All Stars.
Bits & Bytes: Spring for Sound; GBHS art exhibit; RSYP to honor Manring; Roger Salloom at Diana Felber Gallery; ‘Hopped Up for Health’
Frank Packlick’s artwork is part of the permanent collections of the LBJ Presidential Library, conductor Seiji Ozawa, Brown University’s War Library and the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Business Briefs: leadership transition at BNRC; Buttala named executive director; Medicare seminar; Pittsfield Cultural Council committee invitation; Petal Certification for environmental center
“I am now in my mid-50s and I’ve reached an age and a stage in my professional life where I have the opportunity to create one more chapter.”
— Tad Ames, president of the Berkshire Natural Resources Council
Bits & Bytes: ‘Guitar’ exhibit; ‘Art from Farm to Table;’ FilmWorks Forum; ‘True West’ at Ghent Playhouse
‘Art from Farm to Table’ includes depictions and interpretations of landscapes, buildings, farm life, flowers, vegetables, insects and animals–everything found in an agricultural environment that might, or might not, end up on a table.
Business Briefs: BCIN investor presentation; Fairview celebrates nurses’ accomplishments; perfect marks for CHP providers; technology contract for UCP; BTCF grant deadlines; Martin to manage Millerton bank branch
Berkshire-Columbia Investment Network began in order to create an alternative to conventional financial markets by brokering a conversation between local businesses and individuals who seek to provide loan money to support locally sustainable businesses.
High Tea Says “Special Occasion!”
The seniors of both towns were celebrated, but particularly nonagenarians (90-year-olds) Abbey Rubinstein and Kenneth Frye.
Business Briefs: CHP expands pediatric team; Goodwill to open store in GB; West Stockbridge Summer Spectacular; Shred Day at Salisbury Bank; credit union merger
Pediatric nurse practitioner Stephanie H. Taylor is now a resident of Great Barrington, having recently relocated to the Berkshires with her husband, Peter Taylor, president of Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.
Bits & Bytes: FODfest 2015; Jeanne Mackin at The Mount; BNRC award; Audra McDonald at the Mahaiwe; Neumann’s ‘Vanishing America’
The Francis W. Sargent Conservation Award has been presented Berkshire Natural Resources Council, the first time the award has been presented to an organization instead of an individual.
Bits & Bytes: Oldtone Roots Music Festival; college fair at BCC; business email fraud seminar; ‘Richard III’ benefit at Shakespeare & Co.; Martin Gilbert lecture
The special staged reading of Shakespeare’s great historical tragedy “Richard III” is to benefit the Shakespeare & Company’s performance, training, and education programs.
Bits & Bytes: ‘Artful Food’ in North Adams; Berkshire Jazz tribute; Salisbury Bank Shred Day; life & work of H.G. Adler; Berkshire arts funding restored
State Senator Benjamin B. Downing announced that the House and Senate have overridden approximately 87 vetoes by Gov. Charlie Baker, restoring $5.17 million in cuts to the Office of Travel and Tourism and $2.37 million to the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Eugene F. Novicki, 86, of Ashley Falls
Eugene proudly served his country with the U.S. Navy during WWII and Korea. Eugene loved woodworking, gardening and fixing things; he could fix anything.
Culinary Adventures: Oakhurst Diner in Millerton, New York
Once upon a time, an original box car diner, made in New Jersey in the 1940s, it was brought to Millerton to replace an inn owned by the Hotchkiss family that had burned down. Today, much of the original diner remains the same, so you’re forgiven if you feel as if you’ve entered a time warp.
Fiona’s Findings: A Great Find
My family owned a popular women’s specialty department store in White Plains, N.Y., called L.A. Schulman. It was THE place for stylish women.