Mason Library gets its 'Beauty Day'
With help from a trio of interior designers, and funding from the nonprofit Friends of Great Barrington Libraries, the downtown library's historic reading room gets a worthy overhaul.
Bill Shein
FOLLOW UP (Part Two): Nearly two years on, a 'landscape hotel' is rising at Egremont's Prospect Lake
Long-sought parking and lake access for Egremont residents are both connected to an agreement for dam-repair funds. Whether—and how—that will work, and what it will mean in practice, is complicated.
FOLLOW UP (Part One): Nearly two years on, a 'landscape hotel' is rising at Egremont's Prospect Lake
At the former campground, a zoning disagreement is escalating while questions linger about public parking, lake access, and vital dam repairs. An occupancy-tax windfall is also on the horizon.
AUDIO: What's next for the nonprofit Triplex Cinema in Great Barrington?
An interview with Nicki Wilson and Ben Elliott about how a community organized to save a cherished movie house and plan its ambitious future.
AUDIO: Bob Jones on plans for a PCB dump in Lee, Massachusetts
The chair of Lee's Select Board wants a more comprehensive Housatonic River cleanup and reconsideration of a planned PCB disposal site in his town.
AUDIO: A housing discussion with Patrick White
The recently re-elected Stockbridge Select Board member on housing ideas, healthy discussion, and maintaining a "well-rounded community."
Land Court case against Great Barrington and its airport is withdrawn
A few questions remain, but the airport now has some legal protection against neighbors' complaints that it has sought since 2017.