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PETER MOST: The school funding formula that defies logic

Times have changed, but the formula remains stuck in 1949. The wealth disparities between neighboring towns simply did not exist at anything like their current scale. The founders of the regional school system could not have foreseen the inequity their formula has imposed on most towns today.

CONNECTIONS: The mysterious death of Jan Stackhouse

An ER staffer could describe the wound, but she and a forensic specialist could only surmise after that. It was so tantalizingly mysterious.

News Brief: Police charge juvenile driver who hit young woman with car

Police have probable cause to believe the driver was impaired after having used marijuana. Field sobriety tests were performed at the scene.

Bits & Bytes: First Fridays Artswalk; TheatreFest@SaintJamesPlace; Special Olympics Monument Games

TheatreFest@SaintJamesPlace will feature staged readings of eight original plays from presenting companies including Berkshire Playwrights Lab’s Berkshire Voices writers’ group, GhostLit Repertory Theatre and New Stage Performing Arts.

Thefts from vehicles reported in Lee, Stockbridge

Both chiefs strongly advised residents to lock their vehicles when they are unattended, especially at night. And it might also be a good idea to leave a light on outside at night.

News Briefs: GBPD responds to crash; GB absentee voting ballots; Citizens’ Legislative Seminar

Absentee voting ballots must be received at the Great Barrington Town Hall by 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 31.

Great Barrington Police Officer Ryan Storti dies in Stockbridge car crash

Twenty-five-year-old Great Barrington Police Officer Ryan Storti, of Muddy Brook Circle, was killed in a one-vehicle crash on Prospect Hill last night (May 6) at 2 a.m.
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