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Tree Identification Walk in Lower Bowker's Woods
04:13PM / Friday, August 11, 2023
STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — Berkshire Environmental Action Team (BEAT) will lead a free tree identification walk on Sunday, Aug. 20, at 9:30 AM.   Participants will meet at the trailhead of Lower Bowker's Woods, a Laurel Hill Association property located near Stockbridge. The walk will last between 1.5 and 2 hours. Anybody is welcome to join, but the number of participants is limited.    Registration is required to join. Register at this link: https://tinyurl.com/August2023-BEAT-Tree-ID   Participants will learn key characteristics of common trees in western Massachusetts and get tips to help identify them by species. The 1-mile trail meanders along the Housatonic

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New Marlborough to Celebrate Elihu Burritt Day
12:10PM / Friday, August 11, 2023
NEW MARLBOROUGH, Mass. — New Marlborough will host its 47th annual Elihu Burritt Day on Saturday, Aug. 19 from 10 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.   The event will take place on the Village Green (Route 57) in New Marlborough.    The free town fair offers fun and entertainment for all ages, including live music, local arts and crafts vendors, food, and a live pet parade, with domesticated and farm animals.   Hot sausage and pepper sandwiches, tacos, hamburgers and hot dogs, baked goods, ice pops, lemonade, vegetarian fare, and other delectable treats will be available from food vendors.   Local crafters will sell their wares in Individual booths featuring antiques, artwork,

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Great Barrington Opens Mid-Year CPA Funding Cycle
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11:08AM / Thursday, August 10, 2023
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — The Great Barrington Community Preservation Committee (CPC) will hold a special "off-cycle" funding round for organizations with projects that meet CPA funding criteria.   Organizations must demonstrate to the CPC that their projects are "shovel-ready" and that funds are urgently needed. If the CPC agrees, and if funds are available, the committee may recommend that voters approve the grants at a Special Town Meeting this coming October.   Applications are due by close of business on Aug. 28; to request an application or more information, email Chris Rembold, crembold@townofgb.org.   The CPA was adopted by the voters of

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Berkshire Money Management Welcomes New Employee
08:30AM / Thursday, August 10, 2023
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Berkshire Money Management (BMM), the full-service financial advising firm with offices in Dalton and Great Barrington, announced the expansion of its Great Barrington team with the addition of Airen Wadsworth as Front Office Coordinator.    As the Front Office Coordinator, Airen is the first person to welcome guests to the new Great Barrington office at 72 Stockbridge Road. His goal is to help every client and visitor feel comfortable, at home, and part of the BMM culture. He will also support the firm with scheduling, data entry, and other vital tasks.    Airen, a lifelong resident of Lee, earned his bachelor's degree in business

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LitNet Revamps Website to Better Serve Learners, Tutors
By Brittany Polito, iBerkshires Staff
06:02AM / Thursday, August 10, 2023

LEE, Mass. — The Literacy Network has launched a new website that furthers its mission of serving the county's immigrant population through language assistance, U.S. citizenship information, and other resources.

This is the first overhaul of LitNet's website in eight years and features improved translation and an intranet gathering space that allows around 160 volunteers to communicate with each other and staff.

The new page was created by Brickhouse Web Design of Pittsfield and was made possible by a grant from the Feigenbaum Foundation.

Executive Director Leigh Doherty compared the former page to a closet in an old house that was so jam-packed it was hard to find

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Trustees Receive Grant to Digitalize Ashley House Collection
01:30PM / Wednesday, August 09, 2023
BOSTON — The Trustees of Reservations (The Trustees) Archives & Research Center has received a grant for over $344,819 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support a project called "A Tale of Two Communities in Two Centuries."   This two-year initiative will process, conserve, and digitize two sets of archives currently inaccessible in The Trustees' collections: the Colonel John Ashley Papers (1755-1818), and the archives of the Boston Natural Areas Network (1977-2014) that includes over 50 Boston Community Gardens.   "Spaced nearly two centuries apart and at geographically opposite ends of the state, these collections hold powerful

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Mount Everett Artists Featured in Exhibit
11:24AM / Wednesday, August 09, 2023
SHEFFIELD, Mass. — Seven student artists from Mount Everett Regional School were selected to have their artwork featured in the "How Shall We Live" exhibit at the Berkshire Art Center.   Students created their artwork as a response to the climate crisis, presented by Living the Change Berkshires, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to address climate change and climate justice with urgency, creativity, hope, and optimism on a local level.    The student artwork will be displayed on Friday, Aug. 4, for First Friday in Pittsfield, until Wednesday, Aug. 30.   "We have some very talented students at Mount Everett who have spent time researching the

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W.E.B. Du Bois Sculpture Project Selects Artist
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05:39PM / Tuesday, August 08, 2023
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — The W.E.B. Du Bois Sculpture Project has selected artist Richard Blake to create a monument to W.E.B. Du Bois that will be placed in front of the town's Mason Public Library.   Blake was one of three finalists who presented models of their proposed statues to the Sculpture Project jury. The models were displayed to the public at the Mason Library in Great Barrington and at the Berkshire Athenaeum in Pittsfield.   "All three of our applicants were talented, highly regarded sculptors, each with a unique vision of Du Bois," said jury leader and board member Lauren Clark, a gallerist. She was joined on that panel by painter/sculptor

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Fairview Hospital Receives Recognition for Quality Patient Care and Experience
10:55AM / Tuesday, August 08, 2023
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Fairview Hospital, a Critical Access Hospital and an affiliate of Berkshire Health Systems, has been awarded a five-star rating by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for quality patient care.   The overall rating, between one and five stars, provides consumers with a summary of a hospital's overall quality performance averaged into a single summary score, with five-stars being the highest rating. Scores are determined from a variety of data reported, including mortality, safety of care, timely and effective care, readmissions, and patient experience.    Fairview Hospital is one of two hospitals in Massachusetts to earn the

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Berkshire Bounty to Crowdfund to Address Community Need
08:31AM / Tuesday, August 08, 2023
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Berkshire Bounty, a 501(c)3 food rescue organization, will be conducting a crowdfunding campaign Aug. 16 to 22 to address an urgent community need.    The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts (FBWM) will be moving their facilities from Hatfield to Chicopee at the end of August, preventing them from making deliveries Aug. 28 to Sept. 6.   "This is a move that will help the region, and there's simply no way to manage it without shutting down temporarily," said Morgan Ovitsky, Executive Director of Berkshire Bounty. "That means that emergency food sites in the Berkshires that depend on FBWM will miss two weeks of deliveries,

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Southern Berkshire Regional School District Joins Rural School Design Cohort
08:31AM / Monday, August 07, 2023
SHEFFIELD, Mass. — Southern Berkshire Regional School District (SBRSD) has been selected to be one of ten school districts in the country to partner with Transcend, a national nonprofit organization, that supports school communities to create and spread equitable learning environments.    This collaboration marks a milestone in SBRSD's commitment to reimagine and redesign education within the district.   "We are thrilled to partner with Transcend and participate in their second Rural Schools Design Cohort," said Superintendent Dr. Beth Regulbuto. "The timing of this opportunity was perfect, as our District leadership team was already in the process of

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Q&A: Ukrainian Refugees’ Path Leads to South County
By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:30AM / Monday, August 07, 2023
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. – In February of 2022, the whole western world was speculating about what would happen on the border between Russia and Ukraine.   An invasion by Moscow was looming but not inevitable, and to some, it seemed inconceivable.   That was the case for 16-year-old Marko Kononenko, a secondary school student and soccer player.   "I can tell you that if you talk to every Ukrainian, no one believed it could happen," Kononenko, now 18, recalled recently. "No one wanted to believe. And when the news started to say the war could happen, no one believed. My mom worked in the Canadian embassy in Ukraine, and everyone in the Canadian embassy

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