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Holly Leibrock and Elyse Harney Morris of Elyse Harney Real Estate offer a quality new home with gorgeous sunsets. Bobby Houston and Jennifer Bianco of Scout House remodel a grand Berkshire home. A year-end report on the 2023 Berkshire real estate market. Plus, recent sales, gardening columns and more.

Here’s what we have for you this week in The Edge Real Estate section:

  • Property of the Week – Holly Leibrock and Elyse Harney Morris of Elyse Harney Real Estate offer a brand-new home in a coveted area of Salisbury, Conn., sited to take best advantage of sweeping western, sunset views.
  • Transformations – Bobby Houston and Jennifer Bianco of Scout House remodeled the grand former home of opera diva Phyllis Curtin and turned a barn into a ballroom.
  • Weekly real estate transactions for Berkshire County, Northern Litchfield County and Columbia County.
  • Market Perspective – 2023 was a mixed bag, and the market remains confusing. But there are pockets of great promise.
  • The Self-Taught Gardener – How do we get our gardens to produce flowers in the middle of this dark winter season? Lee has suggestions.
  • The Lazy Berkshire Gardener – If you need to do some gardening (it is a type of addiction, this need to grow things), start your broccoli, cauliflower, or Brussels sprouts indoors now to set out by mid-April and have early season crops.
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Lee mulls new affordable-housing, mixed-use development plan across from Eagle Mill

The project proposes to add 69 units in a multi-family residential design, as well as commercial space.

Local out-of-school childcare providers discuss financial challenges at Great Barrington Selectboard meeting

“Affordable housing and transportation are critical to economic development, but child care is an equally critical component of our economy," Selectboard member Ben Elliott said during the board's May 19 meeting.

Stockbridge residents green light all warrant articles but vote against buying controversial Chapter 61 parcel as a preservation action

Ultimately, the petition requesting the town acquire a 35-acre tract failed to accumulate the required two-thirds vote, with a final tally of 135–65 against the petition.

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