Tag: Massachusetts

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    Developer shelves natural-gas pipeline plans

    The developer of a controversial natural-gas pipeline across Rensselaer and Berkshire counties has decided to drop the project after failing to sign up enough utility customers to tap into the new gas supply. The energy company Kinder Morgan Inc. announced April 20 that it had not received the customer commitments it needed to proceed with read more

    Developer shelves natural-gas pipeline plans
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    Behind pop-art splash, shades of darkness

    Consumer objects hint at deeper meaning in artist’s new MoCA show By JOHN SEVENContributing writer NORTH ADAMS, Mass.   The colorful work of the artist Alex Da Corte has the bursting presence and aesthetic immediacy of pop art, but it’s what lies underneath that matters. Da Corte, who’s based in Philadelphia, has a new exhibition, read more

    Behind pop-art splash, shades of darkness
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    Through art, a conversation about race

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    Exhibit tackles issues raised by Black Lives Matter movement By JOHN SEVENContributing writer NORTH ADAMS, Mass.   Donte K. Hayes’ “Def Star Pick” was inspired by controversy over the choice of a black actor to play a stormtrooper in the new “Star Wars” movie. Courtesy photo Black Lives Matter, perhaps the most successful activist movement read more

    Through art, a conversation about race
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    Developers change course, will save old school

    Responding to a public outcry, the developers who wanted to tear down a historic school building in Great Barrington, Mass., have agreed to save it. Vijay and Chrystal Mahida, who already own two motels in Great Barrington and several others around the Berkshires, now plan to renovate the former Searles Middle School as an 88-room read more

    Developers change course, will save old school
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    In Mass., a hot debate over saving bees

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    Farm lobby’s plan prompts pushback from beekeepers By TRACY FRISCHContributing writer   Beekeepers in Massachusetts have been organizing in recent months to challenge regulatory and legislative proposals they say would not do enough to protect bees from pesticides — and might actually put them in greater jeopardy. The changes are aimed at curbing recent mass read more

    In Mass., a hot debate over saving bees
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    Foam-free zone expands to Pittsfield

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    By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer PITTSFIELD, Mass.   Polystyrene foam cups like these will be prohibited in Pittsfield, Mass., beginning in July under a local law adopted in October. The city joins Great Barrington, Williamstown and six other Massachusetts towns in restricting the use of foam coffee cups and clamshell takeout containers. Susan Sabino photo There read more

    Foam-free zone expands to Pittsfield
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    Amid virtual shopping, real stores find a way

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    Region’s downtowns tap into growth of buy-local movement By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer   In the shadow of ever-expanding online and big-box commerce, locally owned businesses are still finding ways to draw customers downtown this year as the holidays draw near. The attractions vary widely: scrabble lights or Haiku poetry games, fresh arugula in midwinter, the read more

    Amid virtual shopping, real stores find a way
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    Choreographing a night of stargazing

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    Artist guides massive quilt-making project in northern Berkshires By JOHN SEVENContributing writer WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.   The choreographer Emily Johnson, an artist in residence at Williams College, conducts a visioning session with students at Williamstown Elementary School in preparation for “Stargazing,” a nightlong community event planned for the spring of 2017. Courtesy photo/Maggie Thompson Some artists read more

    Choreographing a night of stargazing
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    Election 2015: Final tallies from Mass. and N.Y.

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    Here are the results from major local races in the Nov. 3 general elections in New York and Massachusetts. A short summary follows the vote tallies from each county.   MASSACHUSETTS BERKSHIRE COUNTY   North Adams mayor* Richard Alcombright ………………….. 2,430 (54.2%)John Barrett III ……………………………… 2,054 (45.8%)   Pittsfield mayor* Daniel Bianchi …………………………… 4,502 (40.3%)Linda read more

    Election 2015: Final tallies from Mass. and N.Y.
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    Fracked gas for New England?

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    In debate over new pipeline, clashing visions of region’s energy future By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer   Members of the group Stop NY Fracked Gas Pipeline protest outside a compressor station for a natural gas pipeline in Malden Bridge, N.Y. The same company that owns that pipeline is proposing another, larger one that would cross Rensselaer read more

    Fracked gas for New England?