Cortney Dupont and Brandon White of Cohen + White Associates offer a house full of history and possibilities close to the center of Stockbridge, with views of the Housatonic River from a sprawling backyard. The transformation of a two-hundred-year-old building. A new column on local housing issues. A report on real estate sales in the fourth quarter of 2025. Plus, recent sales and gardening columns and a home-cooking recipe.
Singer, songwriter, drummer, guitarist and Latin-American music researcher Ani Cordero cut her teeth as the touring drummer for the Brazilian psychedelic rock band Os Mutantes.
“This proposal would devastate working families. It is painfully short-sighted and makes a mockery of the President’s promise to make our country safer and to support inner cities and rural communities alike.”
-- Jodi Grant, Executive Director Afterschool Alliance
Contrary to what many district critics have said, Great Barrington alone accounts for 54.21 percent of the district's budgeted revenue but the town has 72 percent of the in-district enrollment, or 53.51 percent of total enrollment.
Maplefest attendees will be able to visit a working sugar house, observe the finishing and bottling of the final product, try their hands at tapping a tree and gathering sap, and taste homemade syrup on pancakes and “sugar on snow.”
One of the women filed a civil suit against the Berkshire HIlls Regional School District in federal court last June against the district and, in September 2016, two more women joined the suit, haunting the district with sexual abuse claims from the events of more than a decade ago. Muir was found not guilty of the charges in 2014.
“We would have absolutely nothing if it wasn’t for everyone’s generosity. This incredible outpouring of love and support has provided our family with much comfort while having to face this devastating loss.”
-- Dianna and David Lupiani, on the funds established to help them recover from the destruction of their home
In response to a study of Norman Rockwell’s ‘Golden Rule,’ on exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Maegan Warner’s third grade class at Muddy Brook Elementary School wrote a poem, and marched a print of the illustration through the school.
In her letter to the editor, Tiffany Wilding-White writes: “Our children are growing up in a world where many human rights on which America was built are in peril: clean air and water, safe schools, equal rights for women, minorities, and immigrants.”
The online auction is the Muddy Brook Regional Elementary School PTA’s main fundraiser and supports a wide range of enrichment programming, including artist residency programs and field trips.
Cousins Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice Roosevelt Longworth were born eight months and 20 blocks apart in New York City and spent much of their childhoods together, but their politics and personalities were very distinct.
In his letter to the editor, BHRSD School Committee candidate Rich Dohoney writes: "If working families like mine our going to continue to live here, we must continue to keep the quality of the education high while keeping the costs reasonable for taxpayers. This will not be easy."
“Chess combines intellectual and emotional discipline – both of which are desperately needed in this irrational time. At the same time chess requires players to be polite and have decorum.”
-- Gene Kalish, organizer of the Berkshire Hills Chess Club
Every breakfast and lunch in the Muddy Brook cafeteria is served on single-use plastic or paper and, at the end, it’s all dumped into the trash. While all of it is recyclable, none of it is recycled. Among other items, that’s 37,170 plastic spoons alone headed for the landfill.
