My parents threw at least one mega-Hanukkah party each year, a festive event featuring brisket (Jewish-style, with gravy, not with barbecue sauce) and potato pancakes, referred to as “latkes.”
I can vividly recall my first years at my experimental CUNY college (over 55 years ago) that was anomalously placed in conservative, working- and lower-middle-class Staten Island.
The occasion for the competition—which I played against the limitations of my home kitchen and personality—was the arrival in my house of a box of pears.
I had a professor once who would lean back in his chair (dangerously far), point his pen at a hapless student, and say, “You have missed the point exactly.” Proponents of AHA may have missed it.
What saves democracy is practicing the Golden Rule and resisting the spurious arguments that rationalize the needless harm to the many for the aggrandizement of the few.
The Planning Board's mandate is best achieved with a deliberate and responsive approach, one I encourage on any issue that comes before us, especially this one.
Sure, Eagle, be skeptical about a grassroots effort to preserve Simon’s Rock, but at least acknowledge that if any community can pull this off, it is Berkshire County.
There is no one who relishes a good holiday celebration more than Phyllis, and because I lived with Phyllis for so many years, those memories are absolutely indelible.
I would like to take a few minutes of your time to make the case why all Berkshire County towns should quickly put in place a strategy to be so designated.
No one in Great Barrington is celebrating the loss of Simon‘s Rock. From what I know, Peter Most’s group would like to find a way to utilize the campus in a way that continues to benefit the community.
Consider there are three legs to a stool for a thriving community: housing, education, and commerce. Lacking any one leg causes the community to collapse.
