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Welcome to Real Estate Friday!

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.

CONNECTIONS: The makings of a dictator

There are handbooks on becoming a dictator. You have to have the taste for it and the talent but, if you do: create an oligarchy, encourage thuggery, undermine checks and balances and silence the press.

CONNECTIONS: Lost lessons from the past

My grandfather knew that concentration of power, wealth or resources undermined the rights and the opportunities of the many.
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