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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.

REFLECTIONS: Haunted by a will

Like individuals, countries want to stretch and develop, yet it's not to the advantage of autocratic governments to encourage ambition and education among their people.

Priscilla Gurek, 88, formerly of Great Barrington

Priscilla worked for many years as a cytotechnologist at Fairview Hospital in Great Barrington.

Business Briefs: Community Impact Award for Tanglewood; award for Bissell; Brien Center to honor McGraw; Geary joins Balance Rock; Fill-the-Basket campaign

Salisbury Bank’s 14 branches in Berkshire, Litchfield, Dutchess, Orange, and Ulster counties will collect nonperishable food items, household supplies and cash donations to be distributed directly to food pantries serving each area.

Phyllis Pickert, 89, of Ashley Falls

Phyllis was a bookkeeper by training and worked in that vein for the McTerry Corporation, Maplewood Fabrics, the Bradford Auction Galleries, and Warren and Macchi Builders in Sheffield.

Jane Carpenter, 90, of New Marlborough

Jane and David moved to Great Barrington in the early 1960s and established Vesper Hill Nursery School, a residential facility for 90 children ages newborn to 5 at time of admission with a range of disabilities.
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