I asked BHRSD Superintendent Dr. Peter Dillon what it would mean if we failed to rehabilitate MMRHS. He responded with a Winston Churchill quote: “We shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us.”
By using the residential exemption, the towns in the Berkshire Hills Regional School District could pay to update the high school without raising taxes on most of their residents.
Mr. Most is free to seek to burnish his reputation as a crafty lawyer, but we are guided by something far different: the effort to seek what is right, just, and beneficial for our town, regardless of who eventually comes out with the winning hand.
I am happy to provide you with a handy—and completely accurate—translation guide that will help you to decipher the true meaning of Mr. Trump’s pronouncements.
Mr. Most tells us it is time to move on. I disagree. Lee had the guts to stand up, a forlorn hope storming impenetrable walls, calling out for the right thing to be done.
Until August 20, Great Barrington, West Stockbridge, and Stockbridge had common cause and were rowing in the same direction. And then Stockbridge decided to jump ship.
As Winston Churchill explained, democracy is the worst form of government except for all the other forms. OK, but we were also assigned the obligation to keep working on it, figure out ways to improve. So, on what have we been wasting the last nine years?
To give you an idea of just how poorly advised Lee has been, it can be said without reservation that even Great Barrington’s town counsel would not have filed the action Lee brought against GE and Pharmacia.
