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Tarah Warner incorporates ingredients sourced from around the county, including No. Six Depot, Charles H. Baldwin & Sons vanilla, Berkshire Honey Company and Sweet Brook Farm.
The Berkshire Regional Transit Authority celebrated the arrival of three new hybrid buses acquired with grants from the Federal Transit Authority and a funding match from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation on Monday.
Matt Martinez
News Reporter
“Our client, the teacher, has very substantial legal claims against both the Town of Great Barrington and the School District for violating her civil rights. What happened never should have happened,” said Howard Cooper, the teacher's attorney. Another independent investigation of the police handling of the complaint is said to be released Monday night.
Heather Bellow
Reporter
The current proposal, which would require residents to place trash and recycling in 48-gallon wheeled containers, has significant differences over past initiatives the council turned down in 2018 and 2021.
Greg Sukiennik
News Editor
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Housatonic Water Works Co. customers who have been bracing for a steep rate hike won't see their bills rise as dramatically as expected.
Allegrone Cos. told city leaders that receiving the new approved tax increment exemptions from the city is a major part of what make its plans for the Wright Building and former Jim's House of Shoes viable.
New Marlborough voters will consider a 4 million budget that raises spending about 9.2 percent, adopting a short-term rental zoning bylaw, and a number of other items.
Voters will also be asked to approve a $945,273 appropriation to Central Berkshire Regional School District for operating and capital expenses, including a bond.
Lenox voters will consider a total operating budget request for fiscal 2025 is just over $31 million, an increase of 8.1 percent over the current fiscal year, in addition to a number of other spending items.
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The proposed town and school spending plans, up for action at Thursday’s annual town meeting, should yield a 5.6 percent property tax increase increase for the owner of a median-priced home.
The content of the first page of Hancock’s town report is causing a stir in town.
Jane Kaufman
Community Voices Editor
The district is still looking for high school and middle school principals, as well as an assistant principal for the elementary school.
Heather Bellow
Reporter
A ceremony at Springside Park on Sunday honored Robert Presutti Sr., a dedicated arborist and volunteer who helped to plant and maintain trees throughout the city.
Matt Martinez
News Reporter
Mobile home park rents at Lake Onota Village will increase by $30 a month for one year under a compromise agreement reached by the Pittsfield Mobile Home Rent Control Board and the park’s owners.
Greg Sukiennik
News Editor
Denim Day was observed on Wednesday at the Statehouse, which brought attention to survivors of domestic assault and sexual violence, as well as the funding needs of programs designed to help them.
Today, more people read The Eagle than in 2016. Indeed, paid subscriptions are up by more than 20 percent in that time period and paid circulation is up 5 percent.
Fredric Rutberg
Publisher, The Berkshire Eagle
Christopher Hairston, 35, was found Monday at a Chapman Street apartment, police said. A suspect in his slaying is in custody in New York.
After several chilly mornings, a mostly dry weekend is expected with daytime temperatures trending above normal.
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Tarah Warner incorporates ingredients sourced from around the county, including No. Six Depot, Charles H. Baldwin & Sons vanilla, Berkshire Honey Company and Sweet Brook Farm.
Aaron Simon Gross
Arts & Entertainment Reporter
Hudson Hall will screen “The Rolling Stones: Rock and Roll Circus,” 7 p.m. May 4, with a conversation between Lindsay-Hogg and co-director Melissa Auf der Maur, musician and founder of nearby Basilica Hudson, taking place before the film.
Sharon Smullen
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Berkshire synagogues celebrate the Passover holiday.
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Drury High School has announced its honor roll for the second quarter of the 2023-2024 school year.
Berkshire Waldorf School invites the Berkshire community to a May Day festival on May 1 and an early childhood talk for parents on May 2.
A pancake breakfast to benefit the Richmond Fuel Fund will be followed by a town cleanup and a "Star Wars" Day celebration on Saturday, May 4.
Pittsfield High School's Proteus Theatre will perform "Chicago: Teen Edition!" directed by Kyla Blocker, on Fridays and Saturdays, May 3 to 11, in the school's theater.
Local History
For nearly 85 years Besse-Clarke had been a popular North Street business from when it opened in 1910. The store closed in 1994 and was the very last of the 42 stores in the Besse System to close.
The construction of the new Union Station in 1914 brought two other changes to the area around it that also remained until the terminal was razed: a steel footbridge over the tracks and a park.
Eagle Archives, April 30, 1984: A discovery by the Feds was a scene straight out of the Kentucky mountains during Prohibition. But the location was not traditional moonshine country. This was Great Barrington, and Prohibition had ended months earlier.
Eagle Archives, April 29, 1949: The Pittsfield High School bandsmen would not be participating in the Western Massachusetts Musical Festival in Orange "because they would look like a band of ragamuffins" due to their worn out uniforms.
Eagle Archives, April 27, 1968: When women telephone operators refused to cross the picket lines of the striking International Brotherhood of Telephone Workers, New England Telephone Co. put its male supervisors and managers to work on the switchboards.
Any baby boomer who attended sports programs, dances, movies, concerts, or other events at the Boys Club (now the Boys and Girls Club of the Berkshires) would recognize the mural inside the building's entrance. But like me, most probably did not know who painted it.
Eagle Archives, April 26, 1966: Scores of Berkshire County residents saw the latest visitor from outer space at 8:15 p.m. April 25. But this time the thing had a name and an explanation.
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Tarah Warner incorporates ingredients sourced from around the county, including No. Six Depot, Charles H. Baldwin & Sons vanilla, Berkshire Honey Company and Sweet Brook Farm.
Enjoy this babka coffee cake with coffee or tea on your Berkshire back deck, welcoming spring and your friends back outside.
The spices in this version are minimal — salt, pepper and cayenne pepper — with the dish relying on the natural flavors of the sausage and veggies.
The free events, all at St. James Place, 353 Main St., include a curated selection of 10-minute short play readings, a reading of Anne Undeland’s newest work, "Madame Mozart, The Lacrymosa," and a first-time reading of "Cucumber Sandwiches.
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Eagle Reels vodcast host Dalton Delan interviewed Ari Zorn, the co-owner of Devine, a cannabis dispensary in Egremont. This Q&A is from the interview and has been edited for length and clarity. The interview took place before Zorn announced his candidacy for the Egremont Select Board.
The people behind Greylock Works are bringing a New York coffee shop to "90 Main" for the month of May.
Massachusetts' clean energy jobs already match those in the restaurant industry and in higher education, but thousands more are needed to reach emissions reduction goals.
Cannabis regulators have completed the public comment phase of the coming model bylaw or ordinance that will give cities and towns a way to comply with new minimum municipal equity standards that stem from the 2022 marijuana industry reform law.
Monument's Oliver Berkowitz won four events, while the Hoosac Valley girls throwers dominated in a meet at Wahconah on Monday.
Roundup: Hinkell, Drury baseball blank Greylock; Wahconah boys lacrosse, Lee tennis teams win Monday
The Blue Devils downed Greylock, while Wahconah boys lacrosse held off Amherst and Lee swept the Mounties on the tennis courts.
Wahconah Park opened up its doors to baseball once more on Monday, with PHS playing Pope Francis.
Monument Mountain softball scored big early and rocked on defense late to sweep the season series from Lenox.
With a possible new North Street redesign around the corner, columnist Mitchell Chapman writes about the public discussion about the popular roadway.
If it seems like a trivial pursuit — this changing of names — it’s going on in various natural worlds, extending to fish, insects, plants and names.
Maybe it’s a bit of a stretch, but I think the human impulse toward art-making and the varied beauty of animal creations have their roots in the same soil.
Not surprisingly, American congressional approval of military aid to Ukraine was met with undisguised gloom by Russian state TV.
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.
Both the federal government and the state have taken efforts to streamline the process to approve new immigrants to work in the U.S. Here's an inside look at that process.
While negotiators remain at odds over how much they want to draw from state savings and exactly what kind of time limits to place on shelter stays — plus whether restaurants should resume takeout drink sales — funding could run out in less than two weeks, a Healey administration official confirmed Thursday.
Money for the state's emergency family shelter system could run out sometime between Monday and the end of April, according to a top senator, who is part of a six-person group of lawmakers trying to come up with funding solutions.
Things to do this week in Berkshire County
A tribute to those we have lost, December 2023 - February 2024
Guidance and resources to help you take big steps and manage big changes, across every stage of life
An annual look at the state of education in Berkshire County
A tribute to those we have lost, September - November 2023
Helping people understand the basics of disposal and sustainable options.
The best of the best of Berkshire County, chosen by Berkshire Eagle readers
The annual guide to preparing your home for the coming New England winter.
1Berkshire presents the official guide to the 67th Annual Fall Foliage Parade.