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Notes from Southern Berkshire Ambulance: November 2025

This is going to be an especially challenging budget season for Southern Berkshire Ambulance Squad (SBAS). Here's why.

Bits & Bytes: Mahaiwe/Jacob’s Pillow partnership; interfaith MLK Day celebration; Ramsdell Library Sunday activities; BFMC film course; Writers Read series; Williams MLK Day events

At the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, Mass., Ski Butternut and Catamount will sponsor a screening of the ski movie “Pretty Faces (2014)” on Saturday, January 16 at 7:30 p.m., which celebrates women who thrive in snow.

Life in Great Barrington without tourists

In a letter to the editor, Dave Carpenter writes: "Tourist spending plays a large role in economically supporting so many of the things we love about the area. Would we have Tanglewood without tourists? Jacobs Pillow? The Mount? The Mahaiwe?"

Bits & Bytes: Berkshire Clean Air Challenge; grant-writing workshop; Berkshire Grown’s Harvest Supper; Touchstones series at the Mount; Groundswell at Olana

The Harvest Supper is returning for a third year to the Upper Lodge at Ski Butternut. Nearly three dozen Berkshire Grown member chefs and local beverage producers will be on hand.

Bits & Bytes: MassBliss Festival; Stockbridge Library book sale; Housatonic canoe trip; Berkshire Museum science night; Salisbury Bank Shred Day

At the Berkshire Museum's Science Night, families will be able to make giant bubbles, experience a mega baking-soda-and-vinegar volcano, and try preparing their own ice cream in a bag.

BerkShares Business of the Month: Home Sweet Home Doughnut Shoppe

Doughnuts hold an important place in the American psyche. One Depression-era slogan advised, “As you go through life make this your goal: Watch the doughnut, not the hole.” Thanks to John and Debbie Scalia for stepping in to fill the doughnut hole in our local economy.
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