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Mia Mann-Shafir

Mia Mann-Shafir has spent several weeks a year in the Berkshires with her grandparents for her whole life. She is a current third-year student at Princeton University, studying sociocultural anthropology, journalism, and foreign languages. She is interested in documenting culture, social life, and the arts through narrative nonfiction writing.

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Rally for the Worldwide Day for the End of Speciesism in Pittsfield’s Park Square

At Park Square in Pittsfield, a small crowd of local activists stood with signs to protest "speciesism."

Common Ground Festival 2025: The Mill Town Foundation makes Saturday sublime

Saturday, August 23, the crowded lawn of Bousquet Mountain looks to be one of these winning places and times when the weather cooperates and the people really show up. The Common Ground festival is in full throttle at its 3 p.m. start time and will continue to be right up until its 7 p.m. end.

The Mount hosts Lenox’s Community Day

Children and parents enjoy community entertainment and information.

An intergenerational revelry takes Columbus Avenue — The 2025 Westside Sweet G Super Soap Box Derby

On Saturday, August 9, babies, grandparents, friends, aunts, exes, cousins, and “cousins” gathered at the junction of Robbins and Columbus avenues in Pittsfield for the fourth annual Westside Sweet G Super Soap Box Derby.
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