Tag: Massachusetts

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    Edith Wharton moves from high society to trench warfare

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    Book puts new light on Edith Wharton’s World War I dispatches By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer LENOX, Mass.   Edith Wharton, seen right at The Mount in 1905, had left the Berkshires to live full-time in Paris by the time World War I broke out. Her accounts from the war’s front lines are collected in a… read more

    Edith Wharton moves from high society to trench warfare
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    Two mayors face uphill races in the Berkshires

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    Mayoral races top ballot in Mass., N.Y. By FRED DALEY Editor The mayors of Pittsfield and North Adams both appear to face uphill climbs for re-election on Nov. 3 after they each posted distant second-place finishes in preliminary elections held last month. The two races in the Berkshires, along with mayoral races in Hudson and… read more

    Two mayors face uphill races in the Berkshires
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    X-Files of the Berkshires

    Writer documents local tales of the macabre and mysterious By JOHN SEVENContributing writer PITTSFIELD, Mass.   Among the sites writer Joe Durwin investigated in “These Mysterious Hills” is the former main house at Camp Windigo, a former summer camp in the Berkshires hill town of Windsor. Courtesy Joe Durwin Berkshire County may not have an… read more

    X-Files of the Berkshires
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    Community creativity

    North Adams’ new Makers Mill offers space, equipment for artistry By JOHN SEVENContributing writer NORTH ADAMS, Mass.   Amanda Hartlage works at a loom at the new Makers Mill in downtown North Adams. The facility, which opened in June in a Main Street storefront, provides space and equipment for members to pursue a wide range… read more

    Community creativity
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    State caps could stall solar power in Mass.

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    Environmentalists push to raise utility limits on net-metering program By DANA DRUGMANDThe Berkshire Edge PITTSFIELD, Mass. New solar energy projects have been stalled in parts of western Massachusetts since March because of state limits on the solar incentive program known as net metering. So in recent weeks environmental advocates and representatives of the state’s growing… read more

    State caps could stall solar power in Mass.
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    Downtown hotel raises hopes

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    $14M project hailed as symbol of change for Pittsfield By HEATHER BELLOWThe Berkshire Edge PITTSFIELD, Mass.   Hotel on North, which opened last month in downtown Pittsfield, is managed by Main Street Hospitality Group, which also runs The Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge, the Williams Inn in Williamstown and The Porches Inn in North Adams.… read more

    Downtown hotel raises hopes
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    Roz Chast — Comic relief for an era’s anxieties

    New exhibit reveals the range of cartoonist Roz Chast By JOHN SEVENContributing writer STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. As a student in art school, Roz Chast wanted to be a cartoonist but was stuck in a world that looked down on that form and insisted she work on creating fine-art paintings instead. But with a massive new show… read more

    Roz Chast — Comic relief for an era’s anxieties
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    Myth, religion and comic-book heroes in MoCA show

    By JOHN SEVENContributing writer NORTH ADAMS, Mass.   Visitors ponder a small part of artist Jim Shaw’s sprawling exhibit, “Entertaining Doubts,” which opened in late March at Mass MoCA. John Seven photo To walk around “Entertaining Doubts,” Jim Shaw’s sprawling new show at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, is to step into the mind… read more

    Myth, religion and comic-book heroes in MoCA show
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    Fast friends

    Photographer seeks out the reality behind Facebook’s virtual world By JOHN SEVENContributing writer NORTH ADAMS, Mass.   Shannon Rose Riley and Joey Ramone the dog of San Jose, Calif., are among the subjects of more than 600 portraits by the photographer Tanya Hollander, who set out to meet and photograph all of her Facebook friends.… read more

    Fast friends
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    Keeping a city’s past intact

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    In Pittsfield, campaign to save church leads to wider preservation effort By JOHN TOWNES Contributing writer PITTSFIELD, Mass.       The former St. Mary the Morning Star Church in Pittsfield has helped to spawn a new preservation drive in the city after a developer proposed this fall to raze it to make way for… read more

    Keeping a city’s past intact