Rural communities in western Massachusetts face unique ongoing challenges that demand collaborative efforts between municipal officials and state officials to address them.
To my fellow cinephiles and community organizers in Great Barrington and the Berkshires: The Triplex must be saved, so I thoroughly appreciate what "Save the Triplex" is doing to make this happen.
I always felt at home entering the simply built, unadorned Triplex theater, and I saw it as a refuge. It was the only way I could satisfy my craving for the full experience of watching cinematic narratives and images while up in the Berkshires during the summer.
What does it mean if we assert that the importance of community is inferior to the rights of the individual? What does it mean if we don’t like something, we think no one should be allowed to do it?
Roxanne McCaffrey was not eligible for any paid town position until May 17, 2023—one year after her last term as a member of the Stockbridge Select Board. Her appointment to the part-time position of Council on Aging Director is clearly a violation of town bylaws.
In a small market like Great Barrington and the Southern Berkshires, the only way to Save the Triplex is to run it as a community-owned, member-driven nonprofit, like many other theaters in our area.
On March 31, my wife and I and an old friend/colleague decided we needed to take part in a protest rally organized by my union, the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), and the Cross-Union Organizing Committee at City Hall.
My huge hands are currently holding a very special and expensive nine-iron that was a present from Shinzo Abe, who by the way wrote me several love letters. I usually use it to play golf, but today I am using it to make a photoshop showing me attacking Alvin Bragg, the racist Manhattan D.A. who is a total disaster.
All said and done, Trump will not go to jail if convicted of only the misdemeanor, and probably would not go to jail even if the charge is raised to a felony.
As anyone who speaks multiple languages will tell you, there are just some words that do not translate well, and for which there’s no good approximation in other languages.
As otherworldly as life on Earth increasingly feels, your groundedness is a gift that keeps giving. I pray for you in my own way, and I pray your papacy will endure for years to come.
Those of us involved in any of the pantries, meal sites, or food assistance programs in Berkshire County are all dedicated to assisting our neighbors who are food challenged, but at the same time, we are also facing the double challenge of more mouths to feed and rising costs to do so.
We live in a world built on the backs of the unfortunate and of war. Why do we constantly repeat these patterns? Why do we choose to hate when caring can help heal a wounded nation?
