“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.
"This is a viable development...and it fits with the town’s vision. This building will ultimately get to the point where it has to get torn down — then we’ve lost everything historic."
-- State Rep. William "Smitty" Pignatelli
Like the growing interest in food and wine, coffee has benefited from our desire to have every element of our culinary experience enhanced to its logical — or illogical — conclusion.
Berkshire Playwrights Lab will present its first play in the free Staged Reading Series on Wednesday, June 24 at 7:30 p.m. at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center.
Alecson teaches and lectures on death, dying, bereavement, and the ethics of healthcare, assisting professionals in understanding their patients' experiences.
The Leahey family has been farming in Lee since 1889 and it seems something of a miracle that this farm has not only survived but is reinventing itself.
What if St. Paul’s Stockbridge were to become something entirely different? What if it became the one and only Church in Berkshire County that would be proud to say the same prayers its ancestors said for hundreds of years before (which many of its congregants think they say at present but don’t).
"It’s easy to think that if you don’t come from a big metropolitan area, you don’t have a shot. But I’ve conducted all over the world. You have to believe that it’s possible. Nothing comes easy. The true joy in life is to be at your best because you’ve worked hard to develop your craft. Then when you nail it, nothing is better than that.”
-- Conductor Matthew Savery, who grew up in Lee, Massachusetts
"A Small Good thing' follows innovative farmer Sean Stanton, social work student Tim Durrin, yoga teacher Mark Gerow, whose earlier careers in the armed forces have now shifted to service of a different kind, and community activist Shirley Egerton, founder of both the Youth Alive Step Team and the Women of Color Giving Circle.
In his letter to the editor, Michael Wise writes: “Based on my five years of close involvement in the details of this town’s government, and 40 years of direct involvement in other government and private sector organizations, it’s my judgment that we are unlikely to come up with efficiencies or consolidations that could significantly reduce the town’s budget without making significant cuts in the quality and quantity of public services.”
“They had been at a bar in Lee and hanging out in town,” Great Barrington Police Office Timothy Ullrich wrote of the driver, Kyle Bailey’s, response. And when Ullrich asked him how much he had had to drink, Bailey was reported to have said, “obviously too much.”
