In their letter Eugene and Shirley Talbot write: "Don has provided invaluable service to our Stockbridge community including his work on the town's Planning Board."
In her letter to the editor, Michele Shalaby observes: "Many Selectmen continue to criticize the SBRSD administration and request very specific changes without an understanding of current operations or the ramifications."
In her letter to the editor, Sharon Gregory writes: "A potential unified tax rate would be the most direct approach. It would reduce the arcane (and inequitable) computations that drive Great Barrington’s plight."
In a letter to the editor Otis Citizens for Connectivity write: "We here in the 'Golden West' are also part of Massachusetts and the 21st century. Without high-speed Internet ... there is a negative incentive for businesses to stay or relocate here."
We need a comprehensive, community approach that links law enforcement and the medical community with mental health professionals and accessible treatment.
If the Republican Party is experiencing a psychotic break, the Democratic Party is experiencing depression: A 74-year-old self-described Socialist is running against a woman.
I’m someone who likes to ask questions of some of the people I run into, and more often than not people are willing to talk either about themselves or the world they inhabit in evocative and informative ways.
Drug courts substitute traditional criminal penalties, like incarceration, with intense, supervised drug treatment and testing. Drug courts significantly reduce crime as much as 35 percent more than other sentencing options.
In her letter to the editor, Sharon Gregory writes: “Can Great Barrington taxpayers keep on paying 70 percent of short-term and long-term school education costs (thereby letting the other towns continue to get a discount at our expense)?”
The fact that 1Berkshire would take a position on the Kinder-Morgan natural gas pipeline while accepting funds from Kinder-Morgan raises many questions, just as it did when they opposed the Housatonic River cleanup while accepting a large, secret donation from General Electric.
