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During a festive event at Morris Elementary School, teachers, students, administrators, town and state leaders sang Brenda Kelley's praises. Overwhelmed by the ovations and tributes, Kelley choked back tears, acknowledging that she was overwhelmed.
"Foreign Substances," on view at the Red Lion Inn through Aug. 15, brings together two bodies of work, Billy Zane's "Something Else" and "Shakespeare Tobacco Company" by British model Charlotte Rose.
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In the program “Zarabanda Variations," at the Clark Art Institute, 4 p.m. May 19 , early music scholar, violinist and composer Keir GoGwilt explores how this music found its way from colonial New Spain to the Baroque courts of Europe.
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The most dramatic reduction will come on Route 14, the Pittsfield Southeast Loop, which is being scaled back to night service only.
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The Dalton man accused of trying to chain up a man in his basement at gunpoint, leading to a fight and a gunshot wound, was ordered held without the right to bail after a dangerousness hearing Wednesday.
The highlight of the town election season in Clarksburg was a three-way race for one seat on the Select Board.
The arrest on Tuesday afternoon followed a downtown chase on foot through the heart of Lenox's business district.
In a brisk 45 minutes on Tuesday, 55 of the town’s 383 registered voters approved everything on the town's warrant.
Police arrested four people — two from North Adams, two from Springfield — on suspected drug charges after an early morning raid on Hall Street.
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Select Board chairman Chuck Cardillo is on the ballot along with Lisa Sauer, while Town Moderator Gary Johnston, with 46 years in the post, is being challenged by newsletter publisher and author Carole Owens.
Town meeting will consider adding a bylaw that would regulate both tent camping and glamping.
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Challenger Wayne Cooper came in second, with 213 votes, while Selectman Andrew Krouss gained support from 275 residents at Monday’s annual town election.
Stockbridge voters on Monday will consider 20 articles on spending and other matters at the annual town meeting in the Town Hall gymnasium on Main Street.
Salame, a Sandisfield native, faces sentencing on criminal fraud and campaign finance charges on May 28. Under his guilty plea agreement, he was forced to shed $11 million of assets in restitution and fines to the U,S. government.
Voters on Monday approved the debt exclusion 267-148, according to unofficial results provided by Town Clerk Rachael Armstrong.
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A survey gives residents and visitors alike to weigh in on their favorite open spaces and types of outdoor recreation, among other subjects. The results will inform an effort to qualify for state grant money.
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Mayor Peter Marchetti stood before the City Council on Monday night and said that the proposed $216.2 million budget before the body represented a “responsible budget.”
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The relationship between an accused killer and his defense lawyer has soured so much that a judge agreed to an attorney swap, setting the trial back.
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"Uncle Vanya" plays through May 19 at Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill, N.Y.
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In the program “Zarabanda Variations," at the Clark Art Institute, 4 p.m. May 19 , early music scholar, violinist and composer Keir GoGwilt explores how this music found its way from colonial New Spain to the Baroque courts of Europe.
Sharon Smullen
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A green mulch is a carpet of mingled, low-growing plants that cover the bare earth between your shrubs and other garden features.
Darrow School and the Lebanon Valley Historical Society will present a free screening of "Shaker Swamp Four Seasons," a documentary film by Ted Timreck, on Friday, May 17, at the Darrow Theater.
The West Stockbridge Public Library will hold community conversations on Saturdays, May 18 and 25, about making the entrances to the library and Town Hall accessible to people with disabilities.
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation's "Touch-A-Truck" event on Saturday, May 18, will feature heavy equipment vehicles.
The Cheshire Garden Club's annual plant sale on Saturday, May 18, benefits a scholarship award for a graduating Hoosac Valley High School senior.
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Incarceration rates for women rose with the creation of the first formal police forces in Massachusetts in the 1850s. Women were jailed for crimes including prostitution, drunkenness, and even "being a stubborn child."
Eagle Archives, May 16, 1962: In the seven years that John S. Patnode has been a rock collector, he has collected about 1,400 big rocks and a thousand little rocks.
Eagle Archives, May 15, 1978: It was given the name tongue-in-cheek, but the Great Upper Housatonic Canoe Race earned it in size and in spirit.
Eagle Archives, May 14, 1969: In 1769, a small group of men gathered, two years after the founding of Lenox, to form the Lenox Congregational Society. In 1806 the Church-on-the-Hill was built and has been in use ever since.
Eagle Archives, May 13, 1960:
Eagle Archives, May 11, 1981: The office of fence viewer is one of those apparent anomalies of country living which amuse and amaze the new arrival from the city. It turns out that not all natives fully understand the post either.
The granddaddy of all of the recreational steamboats to ply Pontoosuc Lake was the Lafayette, built by Peter Hodecker Jr. on the southwest shore near where The Proprietor’s Lodge now stands.
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Critically-acclaimed Broadway actor and vocalist Alysha Deslorieux will serve as the narrator for the performances.
"Uncle Vanya" plays through May 19 at Bridge Street Theatre in Catskill, N.Y.
"Foreign Substances," on view at the Red Lion Inn through Aug. 15, brings together two bodies of work, Billy Zane's "Something Else" and "Shakespeare Tobacco Company" by British model Charlotte Rose.
In the program “Zarabanda Variations," at the Clark Art Institute, 4 p.m. May 19 , early music scholar, violinist and composer Keir GoGwilt explores how this music found its way from colonial New Spain to the Baroque courts of Europe.
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Salame, a Sandisfield native, faces sentencing on criminal fraud and campaign finance charges on May 28. Under his guilty plea agreement, he was forced to shed $11 million of assets in restitution and fines to the U,S. government.
About five months after owner Paul Lovegreen announced that Tunnel City was on the market, three buyers — Jamal Stockton, Janine McCarl and Nilaykumar Patel — are poised to purchase the business.
Allen Harris writes that although the economy is robust by many metrics (gross domestic product, unemployment, corporate profits), cash levels for U.S. corporations reached $4 trillion in 2023. Although that is $136 billion below pandemic highs, it is $1.25 trillion (or 45 percent) above their long-term trendline. Harris adds that many business owners and managers are holding onto cash because they remain cautious regarding their industries or the aggregate economy.
On the verge of completing a year-long process to reassess eligibility for every member, the MassHealth public insurance program has now cut more than 350,000 people from its rolls since last April.
Shepardson allowed 4 hits over 7 innings to help the Millionaires to a road win. Taconic and Lenox softball were also in action on a rainy Wednesday.
The unified track and field teams from Wahconah and Mount Greylock traveled to Holyoke Wednesday night for sectional championships.
Bobby Kinne was back in the visiting dugout at Fenway Park this week, wearing Tampa Bay Rays colors and a No. 31 on his back.
The Darrow School's boys basketball team will take on the best programs in the region next winter.
One of the many scary things about the widening world of scams in the information age is that they can target anyone at any time. Unfortunately, a couple of business-owners in Great Barrington learned that lesson the hard way recently when they lost tens of thousands of dollars to a sophisticated cyber-fraud scheme.
Many landmarks of my youth have disappeared from the scene, so my frequent glances at the former library — long since repurposed as a private residence — are reassuring.
RICHMOND — Bees and bugs have rights, too. And the “No Mow May” movement, ridiculed by those who vainly hope for dandelion-free lawns in the B…
I was surprised to hear the president's voice when I tuned into a satellite radio show hosted by a known "shock jock." I found the interview gave insight into Biden's fitness, empathy and character.
The judicial front in the long-running battle over Uber and Lyft's treatment of Massachusetts workers has been a flurry of paperwork for nearly four years. That's about to change.
Campus police arrested 135 pro-Palestinian protestors at the University of Massachusetts Amherst late Tuesday night, hours after students established their second encampment this semester to demand the university divest from organizations connected to the defense industry and Israel.
Gov. Maura Healey voiced her support for how police were deployed to clear recent pro-Palestinian encampments at Northeastern University and Emerson College.
The Massachusetts House voted 153-4 late Friday to pass a $58 billion fiscal 2025 budget that invests in K-12 education, child care and public transit, shifting debate on spending priorities to the Senate.