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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.

Summer’s roar: Red Lion Inn upping its game for high season

The newest trend in hospitality is the offering of “guest experiences.” Guests don’t just look for places to stay, they look for things to do that interest them. The list of experiences is so extensive and variable that the Red Lion now has a manager of guest experiences. Name your experience and he’ll work to make it happen.

Texas educator appointed new Monument Mountain Regional High School principal

Douglas Wine comes to Monument with 28 years of teaching and administrative experience and is currently principal at Bishop Dunne Catholic School in Dallas, Texas.

Bits & Bytes: ArtWeek plein air sessions; Louise Glück at Williams College; ukulele lesson at Lenox Library; CoA luncheon; Special Olympics New York Spring...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Louise Glück is a former poet laureate of the United States and the author of a dozen widely acclaimed books.

BRTA funding threatened: Fare increases, route cuts are possibilities

Great Barrington Town Manager Jennifer Tabakin suggested better marketing targeted toward students and perhaps the many senior centers across the county. In addition, she wondered why the so-called CharlieCards, the BRTA's cashless payment system, were not available for purchase at places like supermarkets and pharmacies.

Bits & Bytes: Stockbridge Earth Day roadside cleanup; family preparedness workshop for immigrants; Villages in the Berkshire information session; craft beer workshop; Aston Martin...

The Aston Martin Owners Club of North America will hold the Berkshires’ first-ever Aston Martin car rally Saturday, April 14, organized by Lance Sterman of Stockbridge, the owner of an antique Aston Martin.

News Briefs: Berkshire Museum to offer 13 works at auction; study shows firefighters twice as likely to commit suicide

With the sale of “Shuffleton’s Barbershop” and assessments of the value of other works, the museum hopes sales at auction of 13 other works will raise $55 million.

Bits & Bytes: Copich at Norman Rockwell Museum; Maplefest at Williams; ‘Lady Randy’ at Ventfort Hall; call for women artists

Maplefest attendees will be able to visit a working sugar house, observe the finishing and bottling of the final product, tap trees, gather sap, and taste homemade syrup on pancakes.

Small Landscapes Before and After

Landscape designer Craig Okerstrom-Lang shows us how small can turn out to be huge, and make a major difference to your property.

Bits & Bytes: ‘Hairspray’ at Berkshire School; Money School; fuel assistance concert; ‘Lovers’ Spat: Round Two’; Eleanor Roosevelt lecture

Money School is an award-winning financial independence initiative designed to create long-term safety and economic security for survivors of domestic or sexual violence.

Bits & Bytes: Great Barrington Kennel Club Dog Show; ‘Visiting Mr. Green’; Berkshire County High School Art Show; Peter Sykes organ concert; ‘Jazzing Up...

The staged reading of 'Visiting Mr. Green' reunites director and Edge columnist Dan Dwyer with Berkshire actor Ralph Petillo and newcomer and Berkshire student Evan Silverstein.

Bits & Bytes: Educators’ symposium at Norman Rockwell Museum; Radius Playwrights Festival; ‘Clever Little Lies’ at the Ghent Playhouse; BioEYES science program

The Radius Playwrights Festival features fully staged readings of the six selected new short plays created by local writers within a 50-mile radius of Great Barrington.

Bits & Bytes: ‘Four Freedoms’ talk at Norman Rockwell Museum; ‘Living Younger Longer’ at Fairview; Ghent Playhouse seeks directors

On Jan. 6, 1941, in his annual address to Congress, President Franklin D. Roosevelt argued that freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want and freedom from fear should be accepted as human rights not only in the United States, but across the world.

CONNECTIONS: Failure may beget future success for Berkshire Museum

Berkshire Museum has a chance. The most ordinary work of a museum – not a Hail Mary pass – will save it. Get their assets back. Hire trained and motivated staff. Do the basic work of a museum.

Bits & Bytes: Parade of Lights; ‘Messiah’ sing-in; ‘A Day in the Life of a Girl and Boy’ family day; ‘The Little Mermaid;’ Monica...

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.

Bits & Bytes: Norman Rockwell Museum to honor first responders; ‘Halloween in Boosatonic;’ ‘The Ambulance Drivers’ at Ventfort Hall; organ concert to benefit food...

Visitors to the first responders' event will have the opportunity to view official police cars, fire trucks and an ambulance; and take photos with a special mock-up of the diner from “The Runaway.”

Bits & Bytes: Big Dance Theater; renewable energy fair; flu clinic; Michelle Gillett tribute; arborists at BBG

Judith Enck, former Environmental Protection Agency regional administrator under President Barack Obama, will be the keynote speaker at the 2017 Renewable Energy and Sustainable Living Fair.
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