The event was a big success—collecting almost 50 Christmas trees and other holiday greens and multiple boxes of food donations and $1,700 for the Lee Food Pantry, which serves residents from several communities in the area.
Basketball, invented in December of 1891, quickly grew in popularity and Stockbridge was not immune. In 1910, voters authorized the raising of the main floor of Town Hall 12 to 15 inches to create a basketball court for the William High School team. It cost $500.
In his letter to the editor, former Stockbridge Police Chief Rick Wilcox writes: "Stockbridge voters should take comfort from the knowledge that the genesis of the 1839 Town House, now the rear portion of the current Town Hall, was created out of a much more acrimonious environment."
Great Barrington native and painter Eunice Agar, 81, has been painting since she was 13, developing a style that she describes as "painterly realism." Earlier in her career, she was the managing editor at American Artist Magazine in New York, and later a contributing editor
The cascading effects of homelessness continue to trip Magadini up. In January he applied for a post office box using the address “334 Main Street, Gazebo,” and was refused for lack of “proper physical address” along with lack of “proper identification.”
It is still unclear what made Winters lose control of his car just before 7 p.m on December 18. The preliminary police report stated that a witness observed a gray car with no headlights and “heavy front-end damage” leave the scene and head south on Main Street. The driver, said the witness, had gotten out of his car before getting back in and driving off.
It isn’t fair to sit on the sidelines and say, “Why don’t you cut, why are my taxes so high?” unless you can say what you are willing to do without. Here’s your chance. Come on Tuesday, March 24, and tell us.
The desperate state of Lake Mansfield Road has brought the issue to the fore, since it is a popular road for walkers, runners, fishermen, as well as for access to both the beach area and the boat launch. But to fix the road properly in a sensitive environment will be expensive.
A diverse assortment of parcels were offered at the public auction ranging from 2-acre individual, contiguous lots located in a residential area to smaller parcels close to the center of town. All properties have been held by the Town through foreclosure for more than four years.
Planning Board Chairman Jonathan Hankin hopes the designation of volunteers as "Special Municipal Employee" will “encourage more volunteers to fill vacancies on town boards and committees and not prevent all volunteers from doing business in our town,” he wrote in an earlier email to the Selectboard. “We need to reward people who donate their time, energy and considerable expertise in serving the town, not punish them.”
A little more than an hour after the hit and run, the driver, Dylan Winters of Canaan, Conn., turned himself in. He walked into the Great Barrington Police Station, and told police he left his car at the Sheffield Pottery.
“We have been working nonstop at the scene throughout the night, and have made very good progress in restoring service for our customers."
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