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THE OTHER SIDE: Witches burning (Part One)

As we have learned over the centuries, when it comes to burning witches, it doesn’t really matter if you have burned a real witch or just someone who, in your fevered, partisan, and paranoid imagination, could easily become a witch in the future. It is the burning that is the message.

Dr. David K. Kanter, 82, of Lenox

He served his patients, who came to his Teaneck office from all over the New York City metropolitan area, until retiring in 2003 and returning to live in his beloved Berkshires.

Charles Stickles Jr., 71, of Peru

Charlie was employed for 32 years by the U.S. Postal Service and retired as the Middlefield postmaster in 2012.

ORANGE ALERT: The (almost) daily outrage

"I have not talked to a single military officer who would be in favor of pardoning any one of these three…" -- Gary Solis, a 26 year veteran of the Marine Corp

Vietnam-era justice versus Trump-era justice

In an interview at his home, local veteran Steve Pullen recalled two significant nights during his service, one in which he lost a significant portion of his hearing, and another when he found himself in a situation that could very well have resulted in his court martial and dishonorable discharge.

BOOK REVIEW: Michael Waldman offers a critical lesson about the struggle over the meaning of ‘The Second Amendment’

As increasing numbers of our friends and neighbors and children die at the hands of those who wield weapons of war, Waldman offers a wise and unfortunately essential look at how we got here.

BOB GRAY: Outta this place

The war was just cranking up, but we were still three deferments from reality.

Gary Mitchell, 73, police officer in Richmond, West Stockbridge and Sheffield

Gary attended Springfield Technical Community College where he earned his Associate's Degree in Law Enforcement.

John Render III, 81, of West Stockbridge

John worked for many years as a landscaper for his landscaping company Render’s Home and Yard Service.

Deane Zarvis, 74, of Richmond

Deane Zarvis worked for many years as a forensic psychologist at the Pittsfield District Court.

Mary Gendler: A life of peaceful protest

It was during an audience with the Dalai Lama the very next month that the Gendlers suggested the Tibetans might have more success if they learned new ways to struggle nonviolently.

MUSIC REVIEW: Roger Daltrey, David Crosby, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Steven Stills, Judy Collins, Alison Krauss

Forty-eight years after the Kent State shootings, Crosby is once again compelled to speak out against government policies and actions that are grossly at odds with American values and the rule of law.

Members of Monument Mountain’s first class gather for 50th reunion

Despite the schools’ regionalization at the start of the 1967-68 academic year, Monument Mountain Regional High School was not ready to be occupied. As a result, juniors and seniors were assigned to one of the two high schools—Searles in Great Barrington or Williams in Stockbridge—depending on which courses they had signed up for.

At BIFF: ‘Dateline: Saigon’ — The struggle for truth when government lies

"When the government doesn't tell the truth, begins to twist the truth, hide the truth, then the journalist becomes involuntarily infinitely more important." -- New York Times journalist David Halberstam

Michael Foley, 72, of Otis

He worked for Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation in Stratford, Connecticut, as a parts coordinator for over 15 years and then as a veteran employment administrator for Connecticut Department of Veterans Affairs, retiring in 2009.

Frederick “Rick” Merrill, 69, of Stockbridge

A lifelong resident of the Berkshires, he was known for his musical talents in many different bands.

LEONARD QUART: Marching with the young

My political anger towards those who hold power remains intact. But today on an NYC March I began to feel something has changed.
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