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Victoria Standring of Lamacchia Realty Berkshires//Lamacchia Luxury International offers a stunning home in a spectacular setting—200 feet of frontage on a premier boating lake. The architectural design firm of Clark Green + Bek works with new owners to transform Doctor Sax House from a private home to a stunning boutique hotel. A year-end wrap-up of 2024 real estate sales has surprises. Plus, recent sales and gardening columns.

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

  • Property of the Week – Victoria Standring of Lamacchia Realty Berkshires/Lamacchia Luxury International offers a stunning home for seamless indoor-outdoor living with 200 feet of frontage on a premier boating lake.
  • Transformations – Architectural design firm Clark Green + Bek worked with the new owners to transform the Doctor Sax House in Lenox from a stuck-in-time private home to an elegant boutique hotel with a flair of international style.
  • Weekly real estate transactions for Berkshire County, Northern Litchfield County and Columbia County.
  • Market Perspective – The 2024 year-end real estate report has surprises.
  • The Self-Taught Gardener – In “Sowing lessons for procrastinators,” Lee describes his method of seed sowing, which is much easier than elaborate indoor methods.
  • The Lazy Berkshire Gardener – Extreme shifts in weather are the primary reason Jodi prefers to plant younger perennials, shrubs, and trees. They have smaller root masses that can work their way into new locations with less stress to the overall plant.
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Great Mountain Forest to host Nature Writing Retreat at Historic Yale Camp in Falls Village, Conn., Aug. 7 to 9

“The retreat brings people together, builds community in the forest, gets participants outside and off their screens, and uses nature sustainably to heal and inspire minds and souls,” stated Great Mountain Forest Executive Director Michael Zafros. Retreat registration closes on July 30.

BSO patrons start campaign in support of music director Andris Nelsons

BSO musicians, patrons, and Berkshire County businesses are pushing back against the Boston Symphony Orchestra's decision not to renew music director Andris Nelsons' contract, as two longtime patrons launch a grassroots "red flower" campaign demanding transparency and a public town hall.

‘We’re still here’: Bard Academy Provost and Vice President of Simon’s Rock Weinstein discusses state of college

More than a year after closing its Great Barrington campus, Bard College at Simon's Rock is in a "much better viable financial model," but questions about the campus sale and former president Leon Botstein's ties to the college remain largely unanswered.

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