The award will allow Great Barrington Historical Society to address needed repairs to windows in the main farmhouse as well as an entry door and windows in the wagon house addition.
Tag: the People’s Pantry
Business Briefs: People’s Pantry grant; masks from BMM; virtual town hall; MCLA Trailblazers Keep Going initiative
The panel will share the current outlook of food and agriculture in the region, creative approaches some businesses have taken and from which others can learn, and provide a point of perspective on the future of the Berkshires’ food system.
Alan Chartock: I Publius
We are learning how to do things within our family units and with our neighbors that make our lives fuller and more important.
No one goes hungry: Food pantry shifts into overdrive to feed growing need
Nobody’s selling apples on the corner for a nickel yet, but you can be sure the need has never been greater — not in anyone’s memory younger than 90.
Use Treasury checks to support the community
In a letter to the editor, Fred Clark writes, “I am going to do my part to rectify this situation by my actions and donate my stimulus check to support food, housing and medical support groups.”
April showers bring May flowers: Amongst downpour of bad news, kindness blossoms
Kindness has been as contagious as spring fever.
Berkshire Education and Correction Services aquaponics lab steps up to help feed the community
What do you do with nearly 1,700 heads of lettuce in the middle of a health pandemic? You donate them.
Bits & Bytes: WBCR update; ‘Spring into Reading’; students advocate climate legislation; Mountainside telehealth screenings
“Spring into Reading” is the Great Barrington Libraries’ community-wide initiative to help residents whose experience of the COVID-19 pandemic has been coupled with economic and food insecurity.
I Publius: Welcome the visitors in our midst
The dark side of this story, and it seems that there is always a dark side, is that some people are getting antsy about the new folks who are arriving.
Heightened food insecurity spreads amid COVID-19 outbreak
A growing sea of similar stories that swell amid these trying times – when kids are out of school, parents are out of work, and the infrastructure of community that so many rely upon in order to survive feels tenuous at best.
Alan Chartock: I Publius — Giving spirit of the People’s Pantry
People of all descriptions shop at the Pantry and some don’t speak English. The Pantry has translators who can help. When a new client shows up, a volunteer will escort them around and talk about the availability of different items.
Melvin Greenberg, 86, of Alford, co-founder of Berkshires Bounty, made the world a better place
For 25 years, Mel, along with many helpers and his well-worn pickup, drove to the markets, bakeries and cafes of Great Barrington each week collecting food donations and distributing them to a variety of organizations.
Bits & Bytes: ‘Troika: An Evening of Faerietale Dream Music;’ ‘Songs and Sayings’ benefit; ‘Shakespeare at the Moment’; vegan Thanksgiving
The People’s Pantry is located at Saint James Place and distributes food to all those in South County who feel they need help feeding themselves and their families.