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Suzann Ward of Housatonic Real Estate offers a stunning house with location, views, pond and pool, and an amazing great room. Bobby Houston of Scout House builds a co-housing project by the river in Great Barrington. An analysis of third quarter 2024 real estate sales. Plus, recent sales, a farm-and-table recipe, and gardening columns.

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

  • Property of the Week — Suzann Ward of Housatonic Real Estate offers a house with one of the most stunning great rooms in the Berkshires, perfect for relaxing and entertaining.
  • Transformations – Bobby Houston from Scout House builds cohousing down by the river.
  • Weekly real estate transactions for Berkshire County, Northern Litchfield County and Columbia County.
  • Market Perspective – In the 3rd quarter of 2024, real estate sales and dollar volume were both down, but the market seems to be slowly rebounding.
  • The Self-Taught Gardener – While Lee fondly remembers summers at the family cottage, eating from the vegetable garden, living on corn and tomatoes and anything on the grill, it is the late season harvests of fall that come to mind when he thinks of his parents.
  • The Lazy Berkshire Gardener – Another week and more fall color to enjoy! And even if frost hasn’t come, Jodi will pull out what is left of tomato plants and their cages now.
  • Farm and Table – A recipe for Hasselback Butternut Squash with Whipped Feta & Honey from the kitchen of Monica Bliss
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Rollout of smart meters in Berkshires prompts discussions from local governing boards, community members

Experts and town officials tout radiofrequency education as the first step in understanding the issue.

Great Barrington Public Theater announces its 2026 summer season

“We’ll present a season of world-premiere plays at a newly configured, intimate black box theater in the Great Hall at Saint James Place, with upgraded lighting and seating elements to create a unique space to embrace these provocative new plays,” says co-Artistic Director Jim Frangione.

Great Barrington Selectboard and Finance Committee review capital requests at budget meeting

With Town Manager Liz Hartsgrove proposing a $17.3 million budget and a Proposition 2½ override, a Finance Committee member says residents are telling her they can no longer afford their taxes.

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