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Bits & Bytes: Drop-in yoga; graphic novel workshop; Young Writers’ Contest winners; BCC dean’s list

The contest was open to writers in grades nine through 12 attending schools or homeschooled in Columbia County as well as Berkshire County in Massachusetts.

Lawrence S. Pratt, 78, of West Stockbridge

Larry worked for almost his entire adult life until retirement at the American Institute for Economic Research, a nonprofit think tank in Great Barrington, writing and editing its bimonthly report analyzing finance as well as periodic book-length reports.

Alan Chartock: Matchmaker, I’m not

I don’t want to be defensive, but if you look up my columns on Cuomo the Younger, you will see that I have always been fairly tough on the guy.

A stone’s throw from Theory, second pot shop planned for Stockbridge Road

Valkyrie will have to go through the site-plan review process with the town planning board and negotiate a host community agreement with the selectboard.

Bits & Bytes: ‘Unfinished Business’ at Bernay Fine Art; Berkshire Museum’s ‘Visual Voice’; garden design talk; traditional music concert

The illustrated talk will focus on practical techniques for creating and managing naturalistic plantings at a size that’s feasible for the home gardener in terms of both labor and expense.

Forced out as fire chief, fined by state ethics panel, Skorput seeks to reclaim seat on select board

In the last 12 months, some of the board's meetings have been standing-room-only and the manners among some attendees have been anything but mild.

Bits & Bytes: virtual Wild Thing trail race; BSC Bash; ‘Real People, Real Stories: Redux’; Virtual Act-Athon for Kids

Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary’s Wild Thing trail race Lenox -- Pleasant Valley Wildlife Sanctuary’s fifth annual Wild Thing 5K/10K trail race and 5K walk Wednesday,...

Alan Chartock: Comprehensive police reform in New York

Of course, politicians, cynical lot that they are, know that things come in waves. The police union-types have long, long memories and will be unforgiving in the future.

Deadly Berkshire copperheads

If people are terrified of snakes, they report all kinds of bogus nonsense in the event that they encounter one.

The curious life of Rawson Brook Farm’s Susan Sellew

Today, Rawson Brook Farm can lay claim to being the oldest continuously operating commercial cheesemaking farm in Berkshire County.

Bits & Bytes: Juneteenth virtual reading; RYSE in October; ‘Ride for Roots Rising’; virtual staged reading

To help support the market, Roots Rising has launched the socially distant bike ride challenge “Ride for Roots Rising.”

Edward Kollmer, 74, of Great Barrington, longtime teacher at Mount Everett

He had a fulfilling career at Mount Everett, where he helped to shape the lives of countless Southern Berkshire County students.

Alan Chartock: Swimming upstream

It’s pretty plain to me that Cuomo can be taken at his word that he is not interested in the presidency this time around. But Andrew Cuomo isn’t governor because he has no ambition.

Julie Martino, 88, longtime Lenox resident

Julie worked as executive assistant to the medical director at Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge for 32 years and was well-known in the Stockbridge area.

Berkshire Grown introduces new resources to connect farmers during pandemic

Over the past two weeks, a series of podcasts have taken shape with hope of engaging those tasked with raising our food.

Alan Chartock: Our racist society

Many people think that the police are the problem but, in fact, they are just the point guards for a racist society.
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