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Sheela Clary

Sheela Clary is a writer and teacher born and raised in South Berkshire county. She's interested in exploring the issues that affect the region, and in building community through place-based storytelling classes and events. She teaches Italian language and cooking, as well. Her writing can also be found at her Substack newsletter, Clarity. (https://sheela.substack.com Clarity | Sheela Clary | Substack a periodic, carefully composed newsletter exploring my obsessions, such as the state of our common life in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, the stories of unheard-from people, the beauties of Italian, and the mysteries of good writing. Click to read Clarity, by Sheela Clary, a Substack publication. Launched 8 months ago: sheela.substack.com

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Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: Twenty minutes in Penn Station

I have arrived at the station primed for impatience. We had guessed we should go to the old Penn, but there’s a new one, too, called Moynihan, so we aren’t sure where to go.
Arts & Entertainment

‘Fiddler on the Roof’ is coming to Monument Mountain Regional High School

You can catch one of the four performances and support Monument’s two casts of "Fiddler on the Roof" next weekend at the high school, at 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, with talkbacks on Friday and Saturday.
Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: ‘Sweet Emotion’ and a late glimpse of winter

Until this week, the enduring takeaways of the 2022-2023 ski season have been hard brown dirt and thin stripes of dying snow bordered by bare, November woods calling out a mournful refrain to us, repeated endlessly, to everyone riding upward or skiing downward, all day long: “There’s no such thing as winter. There’s no such thing as winter. There’s no such thing as winter.”
Viewpoints

Terza lezione Italiana: Le parolacce (A lesson in Italian curse words)

Minchia! Look at the time. Porca Madonna, I’m exhausted. I imagine some of you might have additions and corrections, yes? Feel free to rompicoglioni and tell me where I’ve gone wrong.
Viewpoints

SHEELA CLARY: Secret no more

Women are free to act out of coarse self-interest, or with integrity. We’re free to lie, publicly, and we sometimes do. What’s far more miraculous is that we’re free to tell the truth.
Food

RECIPE: Lezione d’italiano #2—Una Cena Buonissima da non Rompere Il Bilancio (A very good dinner that won’t break the bank)

It’s 2 p.m. on a cloudy Sunday afternoon in January? Perfect time to put on an apron and get out your biggest pot. By 6 p.m., you will have enough food to feed the family for several days for less than it takes to go to McDonalds once.
Life In the Berkshires

Where We Are (Part 4): Maryellen and Joe Levin, West Stockbridge

I hope you’ll take the opportunity this season to sit down with a relative or neighbor or friend, press record on your phone’s voice memo app, and ask them some questions.
Life In the Berkshires

‘We’re the ones affected’: Incorporating Youth Voice into the eight-town school merger decision-making process

Participants of the final youth-centered forum on the proposed merger of the two high schools serving Southern Berkshire Regional School District (SBRSD) and Berkshire Hills Regional School District (BHRSD) at Simon's Rock were invited to responded to two prompts: What excites you about the possible merger, and what are you afraid of losing?
News

A new ‘landing zone’ for Great Barrington: Windflower Inn to be put to use for workforce housing

The new re-purposing of the Windflower started out as the brainchild of local restaurateur Josh Irwin, who has, by necessity, turned his attention lately to the problem of workforce housing.
Life In the Berkshires

Where We Are (Part 3): Craig and Gail Elliott, former longtime owners of the Old Egremont Store in North Egremont

I grew up down the road from the store and my family went to “Craig’s” nearly every day of my childhood, to pick up the mail, newspaper, roast beef grinder, milk, candy or a pretzel.
Arts & Entertainment

THEATER REVIEW: Who puts the public in public works? A review of ‘Straight Line Crazy’

I’m looking forward to the day when Broadway and Hollywood get sick of reengineering the past to make it more palatable but a lot less interesting.
Life In the Berkshires

‘A Canvas for Possibility’: Housatonic’s Deb Koffman Art Space becomes the Center for Peace through Culture

Even if, like me, you’d never met Deb Koffman, if you lived in or around Housatonic, you couldn’t help but feel her spirit. Long-time friend Arti Roots Ross recalled that Deb was “very interested in the ways the mind pulls us away from the moment and life … She paid attention to things that a lot of people might not notice, and that is where her art came from.”
Life In the Berkshires

Putting our money where our mouths are: Cultural leaders seeking input from employees in the field for equity efforts

The Inclusive Leadership Cohort, convened by Multicultural BRIDGE, has put out a Berkshire and Columbia County salary survey looking to hear from current or former entry- or mid-level employees with brief but detailed information about your salary history and related finances as part of an ambitious effort to begin to address inequitable pay in the region.
News

Career Day: A welcome reboot of career explorations and community-building

On Wednesday, November 9, Monument Mountain High School's sophomore class spent the morning engaged with 36 local community members representing 11 different professional sectors, who had come to meet the students and share their work stories.
News

A hard-fought win a long time coming: Profile of an architect of the Fair Share Amendment

The success of this fifth version of the state’s Fair Share Amendment can be partially attributed to the dogged efforts of committed and very patient tax reform advocates like Chuck Collins.
News

A guide to November 8th ballot questions in Massachusetts

In addition to the slate of elected officials to be selected, including Governor, Attorney General and State Representatives, there are four binding ballot measures. We are rerunning this brief guide to the four ballot questions with the new addition of video explanations produced by WGBH/Boston.
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