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Lee Youth Association gets green light for new facility after Town Meeting vote

Residents passed all warrant articles, but some voiced concern over zoning changes.

BOOK REVIEW: ‘No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference’ highlights immediacy of climate crisis

Urging patience and practicality, adults theorize about the possible devastating effects of the climate crisis. But their possible tomorrows are the nightmarish likelihood of the soon-to-be present for Greta and her generation.

The Self-Taught Gardener: Into the wild

An upcoming lecture at the Berkshire Botanical Garden will show why our Self-Taught Gardener, Lee Buttala, so loves the spirit of the wild garden.

CAPITAL IDEAS: Cuts like a knife

Some Fed officials want another cut this year, and others could be convinced to do so if the economic data weakens. The Fed has continued to repeat the line that any decision made — cut, stay or hike — will be “data dependent.”

CAPITAL IDEAS: Maybe you’ll get Social Security after all

Without changes, the Social Security Administration projects that its trust fund will be insolvent by 2035.

CAPITAL IDEAS: What I did on my summer vacation

Dalton -- My bride, Stacey, and I spent last week in Lake George, New York. It’s become an annual pilgrimage of ours, which came...

CONNECTIONS: Tall tales from afar

There are stories from foreign lands and, much like our own, some are true, some are wildly and obviously untrue, and others apocryphal.

SHRINK RAP: Why buying a bed bugs you

A local psychotherapist walks you through the underside of dealing with insomnia.

CAPITAL IDEAS: Interest rate whiplash

Last week the Fed pivoted so quickly that all of us watching the press conference got whiplash. The Fed went from expecting two hikes in 2019 to zero. (It did maintain its estimate of one hike in 2020.)

CAPITAL IDEAS: Vive la resistance!

Still, for many investors, significant concerns remain. Some fear that the advance has been nothing more than a rally in a bear market and the Christmas Eve lows will be revisited. Others fear that stock prices have gone “too far, too fast” and now the market is vulnerable to familiar headwinds such as trade talks, slowing earnings growth rates, a government shutdown, or any other of the recent favorites.

NATURE’S TURN: Gardens that welcome the wild

Arne Maynard revealed that he begins each project by looking to the natural environment for grounding and inspiration. He observes the wild plants and insects, listens to the birds and seeks out signs of other wildlife in order to become aware of the place that will be the setting for his garden design.

CAPITAL IDEAS: You Brexit, you buy it

This is not going to go well, and the ripple will affect global economies, including the U.S. firms that are growing more skittish about our own economy.

Valerie Evans, 86, of Lenox

On returning to England, she was employed as a private nurse for Sir Winston Churchill, living for several months in the home of Sir Winston and Lady Churchill at Hyde Park Gate.

AUDIOBOOKS: Memoirs

This week we sample four new memoirs, the current rage in publishing.

Smoke Signals from the Swamp: The Russians and more Russians

Thanks to special counsel Mueller’s July 13, 2018, indictment of 12 Russian military intelligence officers, we’ve learned in excruciating detail about the extensive hacking of the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and cyberattacks on the boards of elections of various states, and companies that supply software and other technology related to the administration of U.S. elections.

As young as one

Recently, our attention has been split by the plight of the Thai boys trapped in the cave, and the bizarre behavior of President Trump in Brussels, the United Kingdom and Helsinki. And yet there are thousands of parents and children trapped in a kind of hell, waiting to find each other.

Gail Whitehead, 55, of Great Barrington

Gail later transitioned to teaching dance full-time and became head of dance at the Elliot School in Putney, West London, where she taught dance and physical education.
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