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Great Mountain Forest to host Nature Writing Retreat at Historic Yale Camp in Falls Village, Conn., Aug. 7 to 9

“The retreat brings people together, builds community in the forest, gets participants outside and off their screens, and uses nature sustainably to heal and inspire minds and souls,” stated Great Mountain Forest Executive Director Michael Zafros. Retreat registration closes on July 30.

South County restaurants get creative to survive during COVID-19 pandemic

Despite there being a very short window in which to make changes between now and the end of summer, restaurant owners are eager.

Bits & Bytes: ‘Corona Diary’; Crystal Radio Sessions Upstate; Wild Air movies

The featured reading is "Too Young for The Blues" by Chatham-based playwright and author Wesley Brown.

News Brief: Grand Jury sessions return to Berkshire Superior Court

The court delayed all trials throughout the state until at least Tuesday, Sept. 8. Courts operated in limited fashion throughout much of the pandemic, handling mostly emergency matters.

Tanglewood’s 2020 Online Festival begins with Copland, Lee, Brahms

The musicians' total command of the material on this program is especially noteworthy when you remember that they've been locked up like the rest of us since the time of dinosaurs.

More ‘Pandemic Memoirs’

Yesterday became today in a flash of news and tomorrow cannot be seen. They warn COVID lurks everywhere and waits for a single mistake. We erased our plans of travel and adventure and now cling to the safety of our walls. We do battle with our fears. -- from "My Treasure," by Wayne Bizer

M. Elinor Hamill, 89, of Great Barrington

Elinor was also the freelance editor and vice president of Gemini Press, a company she and Paul founded in 1976, which published “The Church Music Handbook” as well as a multitude of sacred church music.

William Egerton, 63, of New Marlborough

He lived and was educated in Sheffield/New Marlborough area all his life, where he enjoyed the outdoors and animals.

Fresh concerns aired about Egremont cannabis store proposed by Holyoke developer

George McGurn, who chairs the Egremont Select Board, told The Edge in an interview that the town has no bylaw that addresses retail adult-use or the cultivation of cannabis. The town did enact a bylaw governing medical marijuana several years ago.

Professor Yudkin’s pre-concert Tanglewood lectures resume Sunday, July 12

A Berkshire summer without professor Yudkin's pre-concert lectures would be like a cheeseless apple pie or a squeezeless kiss: pleasant enough, but crucially bereft of mojo.

Berkshire theaters make history: Partial summer season approved

It seems that both Berkshire Theatre Group and Barrington Stage Company are on the right track to restoring our sense of what is beautiful and possible in our lives starting in August.

Lesley Albert, 78, of West Stockbridge

She married the love of her life, Earl W. Albert, in December 1966, and they bought Loeb's Foodtown of Lenox in 1968.

CAPITAL IDEAS: Treading water

The stock market is always going to have corrections. For me to say that we’re going to get a correction isn’t me pretending to say I am Nostradamus. Corrections happen all the time.

Keeping the Berkshires safe from a widespread COVID-19 outbreak

We wear masks, we keep our distance in public, most of our businesses require the same. Although sometimes a nuisance, we are getting used to it.

Bits & Bytes: Gedney Farm sculpture show; Hershey Felder livestream; photography workshop; intergenerational conversation series; virtual staged reading

Gedney Farm exhibits sculpture by artist Susan Clinard New Marlborough -- On Saturday, July 11, from 1 to 8 p.m., Gedney Farm will host an...

News Brief: Pittsfield woman dies after structure fire

The fire began on the first floor and extended to the second. Firefighters extinguished the blaze in approximately 45 minutes.

Take a deep breath; do something for the planet

Surely the planet is not going to wait for us to get our act together. Every day matters. There is something you can do right now amidst everything else.
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