Despite there being a very short window in which to make changes between now and the end of summer, restaurant owners are eager.
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Mayfest in Place to support affordable housing
Construct encourages posting a video on Facebook to show others that attending a fundraiser remotely can be fun while at the same time providing help to our most vulnerable neighbors.
Construct, Lenox and GB offer emergency rental assistance during COVID-19 pandemic
Both housing trusts are allocating funds received from the local Community Preservation Act surcharge and granted to the trust in previous annual town meetings.
Chef’s Italian roots influence his cooking at Stagecoach Tavern
After the challenge of winter, Soldini craves the smell of spring and working outside, both of which give him so much energy as a chef. Soldini is always eager to teach others about the vast and varied cuisine of his native country.
Classic contrast in race for Sheffield Board of Selectmen
Both James Collingwood and Martin Mitsoff live not far from the Connecticut border, but most of the similarities between the two men end there.
Bits & Bytes: Troika al la Russe’ at the Mahaiwe; ‘Resisting Repression’ at Mason Library; Race Mountain Spring Banquet; rabies, microchip clinic
The talk is the first sponsored by the W. E. B. Du Bois Legacy Committee as well as the first in a series of lectures by UMass visiting scholars, co-sponsored by the town of Great Barrington and UMass.
Decadence All Day! Part 3
Lunch, cocktails and dinner on our day of chocolate extravaganza! Enjoy!
Restaurant workers endure exploitation during winter season
In his letter Peter Tiso writes: “Service workers often earn barely enough to keep a car moving legally at all, let alone enough for the extras that make winter driving safer in our climate.”
Music Inn reunion will celebrate Berkshires’ musical history
Music Inn in Lenox that loomed large during a period where musicians ruled the roost and legendary concert experiences like Woodstock drew epic crowds to relatively unheard-of locales.
Bits & Bytes: Music Inn reunion; Building 13 open house; Medicare seminar; waste oil & paint collection
Acceptable materials are oil-based paint, oil-based stains, paint thinners, spray paint and turpentine as well as waste motor oil.
The four-cocktail dinner: Emerging culinary trend makes local debut
It was the task of chef Laurel Barkan and bartender Rafael Russi to invent creative ways to pair Berkshire Mountain Distillers’ spirits—in this case, vodka, gin, bourbon and rum—with food and drink that complimented one another.
Business Briefs: CIP gains senior advisor; NEPR moves to BCC; new head chef for Stagecoach Tavern; banking class in Spanish; Shred Day at Salisbury Bank
Berkshire Community College has announced that New England Public Radio’s Berkshire bureau has moved its office to BCC’s main campus.
Bits & Bytes: DCSC April line-up; Robin’s Candy casting call; Giulia Rozzi at the Garage; Jonathan Cannon at Williams; Mayor Tyer on Pittsfield; WAM Theatre vacation camp; Blue Rider workshops
“My vision for Pittsfield reflects a place where small businesses thrive, strategic collaborations are nurtured, and the creative economy flourishes.”
— Pittsfield Mayor Linda Tyer
Bits & Bytes: Swing dancing at Shire City Sanctuary; W.E.B. Du Bois talk at Race Brook Lodge; Sheffield Land Trust bird walks & panel discussion; Olana Sunday Art Studios
The Lucky 5 blends swing and gypsy jazz to create a unique, foot-stomping blend of music that appeals to a wide range of music lovers.
Bits & Bytes: BFWW announces March schedule; February at the Mahaiwe; ‘Heart Song’ at Ventfort Hall; Williams planetarium schedule; DCSC in February
Astronomy students at Williams College will host free shows for the public at the Old Hopkins Observatory’s Milham Planetarium Friday evenings at 8 p.m beginning February 5.
At the Stagecoach, elegance and Bohemia join hands ‘down county’
Bohemia of the Berkshires: The Down County Social Club at the Stagecoach Tavern is a sort gypsy-rustic-styled hybrid of speakeasy, salon, and cabaret that holds a variety of performance art, poetry readings and film screenings.
Bits & Bytes: ‘Four Freedoms’ anniversary; Kwanzaa celebration; DCSC January events
In 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt articulated his vision for a postwar world founded on four basic human freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.
Bits & Bytes: Crescendo holiday concert; Star Wars marathon; Swing Dance Night
The Ramsdell Public Library at 1087 Main St. in Housatonic, Mass., will host a Star Wars movie marathon featuring the three original Star Wars films on Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 30 and 31.
Bits & Bytes: Murder mystery dinner at Ventfort Hall; Fairview Monster Dash; DCSC November schedule; clowning at BerkCirque
The Down County Social Club’s November line-up features sounds, artists, and experiences new to the venue. The New York-based Steamboats — banjo pickers, singers, songwriters — on Friday, November 6.
Harriet Rothstein, of Egremont, concert pianist, beloved teacher, dies at 78
“I never heard her play a single note that was not filled with care, meaning and communicative power. She always had something urgent, beautiful and deeply personal to say through her music.”
— Evan Rothstein, Deputy Head of Strings at the Guildhall School of Music in London