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STEPHEN COHEN: Bella Italy

Italians are fascinated by Trump. Tuscany is very liberal, but even my more conservative friends here and in Sicily and Milan cannot understand why he continually changes his policies on a daily basis.

Councils on Aging annual picnic at French Park in North Egremont

Throughout the walk and lunch, people had the chance to reconnect with old friends but, more importantly, to make new friends.

NATURE’S TURN: Relationships thrive in and beyond the garden

With gardening season in full swing, I am also energized to redouble my efforts to interplant as many row-seeded crops as possible.

EYES TO THE SKY: Mars, the almost all-night bright planet

The luminous, ruddy planet seemed to be an ember in the dark sky, yellowish Saturn to its left, both atop the beautiful Scorpion constellation.

Gary Cane, local veterinarian, killed as train hits his car on Maple Avenue  

Gary Cane, 75, of Mount Washington was traveling west on Route 23, when the northbound train began to cross the road. Cane, a veterinarian, owned Hillsdale Animal Hospital, in Hillsdale, New York.

EYES TO THE SKY: Chasing North America’s upcoming solar eclipse

I had a chance encounter with another luminary, Joe Rao, and learned up close about how fervent astronomy enthusiasts are when strategizing to assure a spot from which to see a solar eclipse.

NATURE’S TURN: Spring harvests, spring sowing

As soon as the weather moderates, it’s open season for sowing seed of cool weather crops.

EYES TO THE SKY: Mercury, Jupiter, spring stars and constellations

As spring stars and constellations rise in the east and travel the heavens all night, winter’s dazzling stars and constellations are poised to set in the west before midnight.

News Briefs: Downing secures passage of Mt. Washington broadband bill

S. 1978 authorizes the Town of Mount Washington to establish, own and operate a broadband infrastructure.

Gov. Charlie Baker applauds 17-town Community Compact

Gone are the days, it appears, when every little rural town could afford to have its own separate everything. The idea of the Compact is to improve town and school services, provide tax relief, and still keep each town’s identity and sense of local control intact.

Ruth Collins Bulkeley Miles, 72, of Mount Washington

Ruth was dedicated to holistic and herbal medicine, as well as to her garden. With her husband, she lived a simple, Thoreauvian life, loving the outdoors.

Big bad things that didn’t happen: How the southwest corner of Massachusetts nearly drowned

Northeast Utilities had proposed to construct the world’s largest pump storage hydroelectric facility, drowning Plantain Pond on the heights of Mount Washington and most of Sheffield south of the village under two lakes.
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