In addition to performing as a soloist, Chertock serves as principal keyboardist of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and has been a professor of piano at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
Removing contaminants attributable to Ried Cleaners may cost up to $1.6 million. "We have to hold the responsible parties’ feet to the fire but also be practical. We want it cleaned up and on the tax rolls.”
--- Great Barrington Town Manager Jennifer Tabakin
In her letter to the editor Sharon Gregory of Great Barrington writes: "Equitable education funding across towns should be a presiding principle. We are part of a regional economy."
Gone are the days, it appears, when every little rural town could afford to have its own separate everything. The idea of the Compact is to improve town and school services, provide tax relief, and still keep each town’s identity and sense of local control intact.
“It’s easy to sit back and look at a disaster and say, take the guns away. We do have strict gun laws and we still have a problem.”
-- State Rep. William "Smitty" Pignatelli, D-Lenox
It's time to reinvent ourselves and think about a Berkshires for the next generation. We need to envision a Berkshires for the generation yet to be born.
"We were a paper making town. It was our bread and butter. Now it’s gone. There’s nothing we can do about it. We’d like to see something useful here instead.”
-- Lee Selectman David Consolati
"This is a viable development...and it fits with the town’s vision. This building will ultimately get to the point where it has to get torn down — then we’ve lost everything historic."
-- State Rep. William "Smitty" Pignatelli
