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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.

New hotel will benefit Great Barrington

In her letter to the editor, Patricia Ryan writes: "... a hotel will bring tourists and business people to our town, customers to our merchants and, above all, much needed revenue to the town coffers."

Intrusive presence of police in Stockbridge

In her letter to the editor, Georgeanne Rousseau of Stockbridge writes: "Does Stockbridge, as Chief Eaton asserts, really need increased law enforcement, and are all the lights and sirens, so intrusive to Town life, truly necessary?"

EDGEWISE: Keeping Great Barrington great — or not

We are the stewards of our community, and every decision we make matters. Letting our high school slide into disrepair…letting the character of our Main Street be lost.

Great Barrington winter parking ban is absurd

In a letter to the editor, James Manning writes: "How can there be two (2) sets of rules for parking at night and parking during the day, which is just as likely that snow plows will be on the streets in the daytime?"

Berkshire Hotel project is flawed

In her letter to the editor, Laurily Epstein writes: “I find it doubly painful that it was first necessary to deem the Searles School as historic… then knock the building down.”

EDGEWISE: The uglification of Great Barrington’s Main Street

When I look at myself objectively, I have to laugh at my stubborn belief that those in power have the best interests of the...