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JOHN BREASTED: The Great Barrington Selectboard’s credibility gap

Transparency does not require officials to reveal legal strategy. It does require them to tell voters when the town has been sued.

Lulu ‘n’ Hershey

Lulu 'n' Hershey are off on vacation -- across the country, on a mission of mercy, having decided to spend their time off on a campaign to reduce gun violence in the United States.

Proposals for upgrading Lake Mansfield Road need revision

In his letter to the editor, Jonathan Hankin writes: "Lake Mansfield is, and should continue to be, a true community asset. Much of what has been explored and presented to date by the design team fails to reflect this point of view."

Lulu ‘n’ Hershey

Lulu 'n' Hershey are planning a February vacation but where to go?

Lulu ‘n’ Hershey

Lulu and Hershey contemplate taking a break from their work as characters in their own cartoon world and narrative.

LEONARD QUART: My blizzard

The city is struggling to recover from the blizzard. I can hear the whistling sound of heavy winds through my window.

Don’t disparage tourists; they can become residents

In his letter to the editor, a response to Maia Conty’s letter, Craig Okerstrom-Lange writes: “My family moved to GB in 1990 from NYC (we were originally tourists!). GB has evolved and changed in many positive ways since then."

With school districts, towns create uncontrollable entities

In her letter to the editor, Susan Bachelder of Egremont writes: “It is up to the Towns to re-establish that legal premise and assert its rights to determine the course of education in their respective Towns.” 

CHP should welcome back doctors who have left

In her letter to the editor, Ruth Dinerman writes: "Now I learn that John Horan and Siobhan McNally, both astonishingly good pediatricians are not necessarily returning to CHP. That is a loss this community cannot afford."

Lulu ‘n’ Hershey

The Evil Empire on the planet Komo-Vur, on its quest for world domination of Earth, has added a companion to their political avatar, The Donald.

Bring our doctors back

In her letter to the editor, Tamera Gebo-Wilber writes: “Talented and highly respected nurses, nurse practitioners, and a grant writer, have left [CHP].”

Tell CHP board to stop attrition of health providers

In her letter to the editor, Dr. Diane Singer writes: "The health care given at CHP will suffer dramatically as wonderful providers leave in frustration, are forced out, threatened, or not welcomed back."

Lulu ‘n’ Hershey

Lulu 'n' Hershey, bereft at losing their friend Jared, a victim during a shootout in a convenience store, are left speechless by the justifications that Republican candidates for President give for widespread gun ownership.

Revised hotel plan does not address core economic concerns

In her letter to the editor, Maia Conty of Great Barrington writes: "Building an economic infrastructure dependent on imported wealth does not actually create a secure and sustainable local economy. It creates a servant/nobility-based economy."

CONNECTIONS: Power Shift, Part II

America stands on the precipice about to step into a new age just as America did at the beginning of the Gilded Age. What if anything can we learn from the last seismic change in the primary source of energy?

Lulu ‘n’ Hershey

Lulu and Hershey are outraged at the tragedy that has befallen Jared, a favorite employee at their coffeehouse Cafe Perspectivo.

LEONARD QUART: New York, city of writers, not politicos

One lives with the feeling in New York that the unexpected can always arise… unscripted surreal and naturalistic dramas may spontaneously erupt.