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BUSINESS MONDAY: Spotlight on Sarah’s Cheesecakes & Cafe in Pittsfield

The small family-owned and -operated operation is celebrating its 20th anniversary—and looking forward to many more years to come.

Bits & Bytes: Brooke Skinner Ricketts at Simon’s Rock; Banned Books Week; CATA exhibit; High Holy Days at Knesset Israel; Hopkins Forest fall festival;...

Typically held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week is an annual event highlighting the value of free and open access to information.

Bits & Bytes: ‘Beehive of Activity’; Lit Net gala; Van Jones at Williams; Simon’s Rock faculty forum lecture; GB road work; Zonta Club awards...

Drs. Tony Makdisi and Sukhpal Mann will receive LitNet’s Founders of America Award, which recognizes individuals whose strength of character and commitment to service have improved lives in the Berkshires and beyond.

Bits & Bytes: Hevreh Ensemble at Simon’s Rock; Ace Frehley at the Colonial; GBFD open house; Julia Ain-Krupa at the Bookstore; geology hike at...

The Great Barrington Fire Department's open house will include a rope rescue demonstration and a fully simulated extrication of a patient from a motor vehicle using the Jaws of Life.

Bits & Bytes: Linda Greenhouse at the Stockbridge Library; Berkshire Fermentation Festival; ‘Science Fair;’ food preservation workshop; 9/11 survivor talk

During nearly 30 years as the Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times, Linda Greenhouse won a Pulitzer Prize and earned a reputation as an authoritative and insightful chronicler of the Supreme Court and its justices.

Bits & Bytes: Walk a Mile in Her Shoes®; OLLI art show; Robin F. Williams at Simon’s Rock; RSYP culinary apprenticeships; BPL calls for...

Railroad Street Youth Project's culinary apprenticeship program links youth with professional chefs who will teach them the skills they need for employment in the world of culinary arts.

Bits & Bytes: GB Heritage Day; ‘Fiorello;’ Aston Magna opening weekend; ‘Ami and Tami’ at Berkshire Museum; ‘the Longest Day;’ storage for Sheffield Farmers’...

Bring one or two damaged but repairable items to the Repair Café in Pittsfield (Mass.) to be fixed for free by neighborhood volunteers.

Bits & Bytes: Annual Berkshire Pulse performance; food benefit concert with the National; marijuana community forum; Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio; Lions Club meeting; ATC hike

Bertha Madras, Ph.D., professor of psychobiology in the department of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School will speak about the myths vs. reality of marijuana at the Berkshire Community College forum.

Bits & Bytes: ‘Meet the Inventors’; Paul Krugman at Simon’s Rock; GB traffic advisory; Lee Library comic jam; Diana Felber Gallery opening; senior center...

Dr. Krugman was the sole recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on international trade theory.

Bits & Bytes: DCSC May line-up; Simon’s Rock jazz concert; Lee Greener Gateway Clean-up; Williams College’s Olmsted Awards; ‘Avenue Q’ at BCC

Three hours later the groups reassembled at the town’s gazebo, having collected more than 200 large bags of trash and recyclables which filled a truck to overflowing and most of a nearby dumpster.

Sara Liss Penziner, 98, of Sheffield and Pittsfield

She enjoyed exercising above all. She drove her white Jeep to Simon’s Rock and Berkshire South for many years for her exercise classes, until she was 92 years old.

Bits & Bytes: ‘Save Stockbridge Bowl’ to complete goal; singer/songwriters at Williams; Young Singers Concert; ‘Entry Point’ at Simon’s Rock; new GBLC president

The Stockbridge Bowl Association has raised more than $2.4 million of the estimated $2.8 million cost to pay for Phase 2 of the Town of Stockbridge’s Lake Management Plan.

Bits & Bytes: Source-to-Sound River Festival; Pleasant Valley Volunteer Day; BTG auditions; Crane Paper Mills talk; Simon’s Rock joins Common Application

The Common Application allows prospective college students to submit just one application in total rather than one application per school.

Bits & Bytes: The Wilderness Players at Simon’s Rock; Norfolk poetry reading; Bidwell House internships; cabaret at Helsinki Hudson; Creators’ Studio at Flying Cloud

During the Flying Cloud Institute June session , Creators Studio students will be able to work deeply in such disciplines as robotics, engineering, coding, film, architecture, music composition, and ceramics, and each student will work with a mentor.

Bits & Bytes: Denny Alsop in Agawam; Juliana Barbassa at Williams; Embodied Positive Psychology Summit; preservation award for Carole Owens; ThinkFOOD at Simon’s Rock;...

The Center for Food Studies at Bard College at Simon's Rock will hold its annual ThinkFOOD conference on Saturday, April 9, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Kellogg Music Center.

Bits & Bytes: Arcadia Viols at Simon’s Rock; painting exhibition call for artists; ‘Real Talk on Race;’ ‘Baseball’ book release; Lenox church partnership; GB...

The course, "Real Talk on Race," is interactive, and will require participants to confront racism explicitly on individual and systemic levels.

Bits & Bytes: Dance for Justice at Dewey Hall; GB rabies clinic; Dr. Lawrence Cohen at Simon’s Rock; ‘From Age-ing to Sage-ing;’ Vitaly Komar...

The Berkshire Center for Justice offers free legal clinics and other free and reduced-cost legal services to Berkshire County residents in need.
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