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Central Berkshire Habitat Breaks Ground on Affordable Housing ProjectBy Breanna Steele, iBerkshires Staff
06:12AM / Tuesday, July 08, 2025 | |
Prosperity Way in Housatonic will the largest home-owner affordable housing development in more than two decades. GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Central Berkshire Habitat for Humanity held a groundbreaking ceremony Monday morning for its new affordable housing project, Prosperity Way. "You're on North Plain Road, but community has named this Prosperity Way, and it was really named to reflect their aspirations of what this is going to be for them in their lives. We've done years of community conversations and finding out what people wanted," Habitat CEO Carolyn Valli said. The new affordable housing project will be located at 385 North Plain Road in Housatonic and
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Jacob's Pillow Celebrates Rebuilt Theater With Pop-up DanceBy Sabrina Damms, iBerkshires Staff
12:19PM / Monday, July 07, 2025 | |
Executive Director Pamela Tatge, left, says Jacob's Pillow is about the 'past, present, and future of dance.' See more photos here. BECKET, Mass. — More than 100 community members of all ages celebrated the opening of Jacob's Pillow's Doris Duke Theatre with a community pop-up dance and open house on Sunday. The event precedes the theater's ribbon-cutting ceremony, which is scheduled to take place on Wednesday. The day was filled with smiles, laughter, tears, art unveilings, and, of course, lots of dancing. Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival at 93 years is the longest-running dance festival in the nation, and the only 0 Comments
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Berkshire Art Center Welcomes Two New Board Members| 11:47AM / Monday, July 07, 2025 | |
 STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — Berkshire Art Center announced the appointment of two members to its Board of Directors: Emmy Award-winning editor Gideon Brown and creative strategist Angela Hall. Gideon Brown, a longtime media professional, brings over 25 years of experience in television editing, having worked with major networks including CBS, HBO, Showtime, and NBC. A graduate of Fiorello LaGuardia High School, Stony Brook University, and City College of New York (MFA, Film and Media Arts), Brown now lives in Great Barrington with his family. His deep creative roots—his grandfather was a Berkshire artist—align with the Center's mission of connecting art with 0 Comments
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West Stockbridge to Host Annual Card Pond Beach Party| 08:13AM / Monday, July 07, 2025 | |
 WEST STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — The West Stockbridge Parks & Recreation Department is scheduled to host the annual Card Pond Beach Party on Friday, July 11, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The event will feature a lakeside barbecue, lawn games, swimming, live music, and ice cream. Attendees will also have the opportunity to see the new pavilion. The Card Pond Beach Party is a free community event. 0 Comments
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Clothing Brand Eileen Fisher Opens in Great BarringtonBy Breanna Steele, iBerkshires Staff
05:34PM / Sunday, July 06, 2025 | |
The Great Barrington store is the second in the country to offer a 'Renew' section with refurbished Eileen Fisher clothing. GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — With the snip of ribbon, Main Street's newest clothing store opened on Thursday. Eileen Fisher established her eponymous brand 40 years ago with an eye on easy, timeless, and sustainable clothing for women. The brand now has more than 50 storefronts and is carried in more than 300 department stores. The Great Barrington store is the sixth opened in Massachusetts. "Speaking for all of us at Eileen Fisher, we are really excited to be a part of this community," marketing 0 Comments
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More Than 1,100 Complete Holiday 5KiBerkshires.com Sports,
12:54PM / Friday, July 04, 2025 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. – Pittsfield’s Abigail Geurds was the fastest female finisher in the 4th of July 5K on Friday morning. Geurds covered the 5-kilometer (3.1-mile) course in 17 minutes, 51 seconds to place 26th overall. The race saw 1,141 competitors finish the out-and-back course from Wahconah Street south to the intersection of South Street and West Housatonic and back to Wahconah Park. The top finisher overall was Steve Dowsett of Newburyport, who ran a time of 15:12 to finish three seconds ahead of runner-up Alex White of Dalton. Finishers at the event ranged in age from Pittsfield’s Eamon Doyle, 7, who ran a time of 26:34, to 0 Comments
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Fourth of July: The Declaration of Independence| 10:06AM / Friday, July 04, 2025 | |
 A reminder what today is really all about: The adoption of a (literally) revolutionary document that stated the grievances of the colonists against England and their resolve to pursue a course of self-determination — without the bindings of hereditary rule.
The Unanimous Declaration
of the Thirteen United States of America
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent 10 Comments
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Great Barrington Little Leaguers Down Dalton in Extra InningsBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires.com Sports
11:39PM / Thursday, July 03, 2025 | |
 ADAMS, Mass. – Brayden King scored from third on Ivey Weller’s ground ball to the left side in the bottom of the seventh Thursday to give the Great Barrington Little League All-Stars a dramatic, 4-3 win over Dalton-Hinsdale in the teams’ opening game of the Don Gleason District 1 Tournament. GB and Dalton combined for six runs in the last inning and a half to cap a game that featured strong pitching and big plays on defense from both teams. After Dalton-Hinsdale’s Tye Shove led off the game with a triple and scored one batter later on Parker Lussier’s single, no one could get a run across until the bottom of the sixth. That is when Great 8 Comments
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Berkshire Community Radio Alliance Receives Gift From Feigenbaum Foundation| 10:45AM / Thursday, July 03, 2025 | |
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Berkshire Community Radio Alliance (BCRA) broadcasting at 97.7FM as WBCR-lp has received a $20,000 grant from The Feigenbaum Foundation to support the renovation of their studio at 320 Main Street. The grant kicks off a 5-year project to enhance and upgrade the studio’s broadcast, recording, and training studio, which is currently being renovated as part of the extensive Mahaiwe Block renovation. The station is temporarily broadcasting from the 2nd floor of the Mahaiwe Building until construction is complete. "We are most grateful for the generosity of The Feigenbaum Foundation," said John Prusinski, BCRA Board President. 8 Comments
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Berkshire Green Drinks: How to Protect Your Farms, Gardens, and Food from Forever Chemicals| 08:28AM / Thursday, July 03, 2025 | |
 SHEFFIELD, Mass. — Laura Orlando, Senior Scientist at Just Zero and an Adjunct Professor of Environmental Health at the Boston University School of Public Health, will speak at the July Berkshire Green Drinks event on Wednesday, July 9. This free hybrid event will take place online via Zoom and in person at Big Elm Brewing's Sheffield Taproom, 65 Silver St, Sheffield, MA. The in-person social gathering will begin around 5:15 PM; the presentation and Zoom meeting will start at 6:00 PM. According to a press relsase: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS or "Forever Chemicals") are a dangerous class of chemicals that seem to 8 Comments
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Car Crashes Through Taft Farms Plant DisplayBy Brittany Polito, iBerkshires Staff
04:54PM / Wednesday, July 02, 2025 | |
An employee sets up caution tape at Taft Farms where a vehicle went through the plant display. GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Police are investigating an incident in which a vehicle plowed through an outside display at Taft Farms.
Shortly before 2 p.m. on Wednesday, police received the call of a crash at the farm. A car had driven through the outdoor plant section of the farm store on Park Street.
About an hour later, employees were cleaning up a car-sized hole in the cement divider, and that section of plants was gone, but the business was operating seemingly as normal. Those involved with the incident had left.
Police said the cause
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The Classical Beat: The 2025 Summer Music Festival Season Begins By Stephen Dankner, Special to iBerkshires
03:04PM / Wednesday, July 02, 2025 | |
The beginning of July generally marks the start of the long-awaited summer music festival season, though for Taconic Music, it began two weeks ago. How fortunate we music lovers are to be living in this corner of the world - the Berkshires - for what can only be described as 'Music Heaven?' With programs in Lenox and in South Worthington, MA, and in Manchester,VT, concertgoers will have a wide selection of music in a multiplicity of styles to enjoy in venues grand and intimate - cathedrals and chapels - from pop superstar James Taylor to Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Smetana, and also including modern master Stravinsky at Tanglewood, to Taconic Music's feast of chamber 8 Comments
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