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Stockbridge backstory to missing mother and daughter shows a grandmother’s love for family

The child is currently in the temporary custody of her paternal grandmother.

Celebrate Construct: A summer evening for kids of all ages

There will be something for everyone starting with games and entertainment for the kids, and four bands onstage ending with a spectacular fireworks.

Business Briefs: National Dance Presenters’ Forum; Berkshire Bank donates to CDCSB; Fitch Ratings upgrades Kimball Farms; Berkshire United Way community investments

The Community Development Corporation of South Berkshire has announced that the Berkshire Bank Foundation has made a $10,000 grant to the CDCSB.

EDGECAST: Berkshire activists sign up new voters at Pride Day, Portland ME

Let the 2020 campaigning begin. Politically engaged Berkshire residents in Portland, Maine, registering voters on Gay Pride Day 2019.

Cheryl Ann Luft, 64, of Southfield

She was an avid photographer, bird watcher, dog lover and first responder volunteer. Her business CalmLightNow Photography created art and greeting cards that featured her love of nature and photography.

Fall Festival of Shakespeare celebrates 30 years

Students have the opportunity to develop skills in stage combat, performance aesthetics, dance, technical theater, costuming, stage management, marketing and publicity during the Fall Festival experience.

FILM REVIEW: 90 minutes in the woods with ‘Leave No Trace’

My selfish wish is that Granik worked a little faster; she’s released only four movies in fourteen years, and these days I’m hungry for artists who focus on the heart.

Main Street church will be ‘flying high,’ in more ways than one

Highminded LLC has drafted a host agreement with the town of Great Barrington that includes the mandated annual $10,000 donation to a nonprofit of its choice. That gift will go to the Railroad Street Youth Project, which will also receive an additional 1 percent of net sales to fund a campaign against adolescent substance usage.

‘Living While Dying,’ Cathy Zheutlin’s film explores end of life

By keeping our distance from death, cloaking it, hiding our eyes from it, we actually lose touch with a sacred phase of life. Because, as we all know, death is a part of life—for all of us.” -- filmmaker Cathy Zheutlin

Self-Taught Gardener: It takes a village

Each element is set before you to change your pace, or cause you to look up at a view, or to simply give you pause to notice a fern, some artfully laid stonework, or to stop and hear the sound of the world around you.

The Self-Taught Gardener: Comfort of other seasons

As the season of rebirth arrives, the 'holy trinity' of the trillium brings forth the mystery of life itself.

LEONARD QUART: A liberal, progressive city with a racist past

No city or region, no matter how ostensibly liberal, is without its racist past and contemporary racial problems and ironies.

Business Briefs: Hotels transition general managers; Salisbury Trust partners with Lebenthal; new management for Williams Inn; nonprofit donations report; BTCF grant deadlines

The Massachusetts Nonprofit Network report highlights why individual donations are so important to nonprofits and the impact that changes in federal tax policy could have on all nonprofits.

Simonne Therese Boutin St. Jock, 90

A graveside funeral service by Father William Murphy will be held on Friday October 7 at 11 a.m. at St. Peters Cemetery in Great Barrington.

Culinary Adventures: The eponymous Preservation Society and P.S. Bistro

Chef and owner Christophe Jalbert places a high premium on local ingredients on his menus. In a short time that he has owned the former Route 7 Grill, Jalbert not only developed solid relationships with 40 or more farmers in the area, but the people who come to his restaurants expect locally grown food prepared to show off its high quality.
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