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Linfield and Susan Simon, the owners for the past 40 years, have listed Wheatligh with Landvest/Christie’s International Real Estate for $15 million. It’s being offered either as a hotel, family or corporate retreat or a private club.
Asher Silverwolff runs beekeeping management company Bee Resonance Project, maintaining hives across the Berkshires and Columbia County.
Aaron Simon Gross
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Two of Matthew Rutledge accusers describe details of his alleged sexual misconduct while they were students at Miss Hall's School. “He told me he had feelings for me. And by the time of my junior year, I was spending most of my time that I wasn’t in school, alone with him.”
Heather Bellow
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Taconic High School hosted a Signing Day ceremony on Tuesday, recognizing seniors who will pursue a career in the field they studied in the technical education programs offered there.
Matt Martinez
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Current member Andrew Krouss and Wayne Cooper are on the ballot, and Town Moderator Eugene Dellea is stepping down after 58 years in the position.
The recommended detour is now down Route 7 to Maple Avenue and over to Home Road to avoid stressing the Kellogg Road bridge and East Sheffield Road.
Town Administrator Madeline Scully spoke of the meeting in glowing terms, describing the voters as well informed with good questions and Charles Sturtevant as “the best moderator I’ve seen at a town meeting.”
At annual town meeting Monday night, voters approved $150,000 for planning and design for future renovations of Housatonic’s Ramsdell Library, and zoning laws that would make it easier to build apartment buildings and houses in the urban, walkable areas of town.
Campus police arrested 135 pro-Palestinian protestors at the University of Massachusetts Amherst late Tuesday night, hours after students established their second encampment this semester to demand the university divest from organizations connected to the defense industry and Israel.
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The total $894,531 on operating expenses and salaries represented a nearly 2 percent increase. That includes a $202,400 line item for education and busing to Mount Everett Regional School District, a decrease of 14 percent.
Jane Kaufman
Community Voices Editor
A city man who was arrested Monday is accused of threatening to kill Judge Jennifer Tyne, police said.
Amanda Burke
Cops and Courts Reporter
The requested appropriations includes one by citizens petition: for $9,500 to support the 250th Town of Alford Celebration Committee’s events throughout the year, including a square dance.
Jane Kaufman
Community Voices Editor
Student activists are in discussions with administrators about their demands. Commencement is planned for June 2 on the same spot where students are currently camped.
Sten Spinella
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The Town of Lee has filed a summary judgement in its PCB lawsuit against Monsanto and General Electric claiming the 1972 agreement between those companies shows they are liable.
Greg Sukiennik
News Editor
In a text message on March 29, a "terrified" Matthew Rutledge tells one of his former students that he will deny to Miss Hall's leadership the misconduct accusations against him.
Heather Bellow
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Dalton residents voted on 22 articles at the annual town meeting on Monday night, as questions were raised about a number of proposed expenditures by the town.
Matt Martinez
News Reporter
Total spending of $6,767,514 — for operating budget, capital items and school assessment — represents a 4.5 percent increase. It passed by a wide majority, as did every article on the warrant.
Jane Kaufman
Community Voices Editor
Ed Lane and Neal Maxymillian won, but newcomer Jared Weber came in a close third. In a surprise outcome, Rebecca V. Miller, who had withdrawn from the School Committee race after ballots were printed, was reelected, along with incumbents Veronica Fenton and Meghan Kirby.
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Asher Silverwolff runs beekeeping management company Bee Resonance Project, maintaining hives across the Berkshires and Columbia County.
Aaron Simon Gross
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When an event strips the vegetative cover from the land, exposing it to erosion and the sun, annual seeds lying dormant in the soil sprout and grow up to provide a Band-Aid.
Louise Bichan, an internationally traveling fiddler from the Orkney islands off the northern tip of Scotland, will perform "Out of My Own Light," 7:30 p.m. May 11, at The Foundry.
Eagle Archives, May 9, 1959: Mrs. Jacob Shalett was in the process of knitting an American flag, and her plan called for 49 stars. Suddenly Hawaii was also in the union, and Mrs. Shalett wrote to Washington to find out where the extra star should go.
Author Thomas E. Johnson Jr. will present "Massachusetts Libraries, Past and Future" on Saturday, May 11, as part of the Williamstown Public Library's 150th Anniversary.
Stockbridge Sinfonia invites local classical music players to two free reading sessions to try their hands and instruments at playing in an orchestra. Sessions will be held Saturdays, May 11 and 18, at Zion Lutheran Church.
Dancers ranging in age from 9 to 17 will present excerpts from “The Carnival of the Animals” ballet along with other styles of dance on Saturday, May 11, at the Berkshire Athenaeum.
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Incarceration rates for women rose with the creation of the first formal police forces in Massachusetts in the 1850s. Women were jailed for crimes including prostitution, drunkenness, and even "being a stubborn child."
Eagle Archives, May 8, 1970: When Mrs. Charles R. Carlo held her first Blue Bird meeting at her home, five of the nine girls attending included her 7-year-old triplets and 8-year-old twins.
Eagle Archives, May 6, 1981: Erika A. Uchman of North Adams works on her own time and at her own expense to clean up city land.
Eagle Archives, May 4, 1960: Pittsfield escaped almost scot-free in the May 3 nuclear bomb attack drill but Civil Defense volunteers had a busy time of it anyway.
Eagle Archives, May 3, 1939: Looking back on the many years he has spent as a barber, Alfred A. Jerome had fond recollections of the time when, in 1884, he started work as an apprentice in his brothers' shops.
Eagle Archives, May 2, 1940: Hastings Cross is one of the few survivors of the early American art of glass-blowing.
Eagle Archives, May 1, 1976: The 200-year-old elm that stands near death on Prospect Hill in Stockbridge basked in a moment of glory as "the last living testament to the American Revolution" in Berkshire County.
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The elusive great kiskadee became columnist Bill Danielson's "vacation nemesis" as he tried to photograph the bird while on vacation in Bermuda.
The conversation between Sam Kassow and Aaron Lansky will follow a screening of the 2018 documentary film "Who Will Write Our History," based on Kassow's 2007 book of the same name. Kassow will also be signing books. Tickets are $100 per person and available at thetriplex.org
Asher Silverwolff runs beekeeping management company Bee Resonance Project, maintaining hives across the Berkshires and Columbia County.
When an event strips the vegetative cover from the land, exposing it to erosion and the sun, annual seeds lying dormant in the soil sprout and grow up to provide a Band-Aid.
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Linfield and Susan Simon, the owners for the past 40 years, have listed Wheatligh with Landvest/Christie’s International Real Estate for $15 million. It’s being offered either as a hotel, family or corporate retreat or a private club.
Columnist Bill Schmick applauds some recent organized labor wins. The number of U.S. workers who claimed union membership increased ever so slightly last year from 14.3 million in 2022 to 14.4 million.
The owner of the North Adams Mexican restaurant said Saturday that frustration caused him to post on social media that Trés Niños is for sale. But it's not going anywhere anytime soon.
BOSTON —Gov. Maura Healey touted this week that her economic development proposal "goes big" on the burgeoning climate tech field with a $1 billion state investment, and said it could result in a similarly significant economic return.
The Ephs will be in Medford this weekend for the NESCAC Tournament, seeking an NCAA automatic bid.
Mount Greylock's Katherine Goss and Chase Hoey, along with Oliver Berkowitz, Payton Shippee and Elijah Harewood on the boys side have highlighted the track and field season.
Ashlyn Lesure had 11 points in the Hurricanes' road win, while Alex Fuster led the Lenox boys tennis team to two wins in two days.
Bri Lynch struck out 13 in Lee's 3-1 win on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Malia Koffi hit another homer for Greylock and Marlee Arnhold nearly pitched Wahconah by Turners Falls.
Berkshire is the starting point for rivers. Follow yours downstream to its treasures.
The Republican Party and the radical edge of the pro-Palestinian left both share an interest in discrediting the modern liberal university by making it look at once hypocritical and ineffectual. Liberals shouldn't help them.
If you’re down the rabbit hole deluged with emails, texts or phone calls seeking to gauge your satisfaction, you’re not alone.
If we want to support farmers and have agriculture woven into the fabric of our communities for years to come, we must create more opportunities for farmers to connect with other farmers around climate resilience and related issues. I urge all organizations and individuals working to strengthen our local food economy to embrace this as a powerful priority.
Campus police arrested 135 pro-Palestinian protestors at the University of Massachusetts Amherst late Tuesday night, hours after students established their second encampment this semester to demand the university divest from organizations connected to the defense industry and Israel.
Gov. Maura Healey voiced her support for how police were deployed to clear recent pro-Palestinian encampments at Northeastern University and Emerson College.
The Massachusetts House voted 153-4 late Friday to pass a $58 billion fiscal 2025 budget that invests in K-12 education, child care and public transit, shifting debate on spending priorities to the Senate.
Both the federal government and the state have taken efforts to streamline the process to approve new immigrants to work in the U.S. Here's an inside look at that process.
Things to do this week in Berkshire County
A tribute to those we have lost, December 2023 - February 2024
Guidance and resources to help you take big steps and manage big changes, across every stage of life
An annual look at the state of education in Berkshire County
A tribute to those we have lost, September - November 2023
Helping people understand the basics of disposal and sustainable options.
The best of the best of Berkshire County, chosen by Berkshire Eagle readers
The annual guide to preparing your home for the coming New England winter.
1Berkshire presents the official guide to the 67th Annual Fall Foliage Parade.