Tag: Massachusetts

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    Clark Art Institute — A museum transformed

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    By TELLY HALKIASContributing writer WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. The Clark Center, a new visitors center, and the Manton Research Center are seen from across a new 1-acre reflecting pool at the redesigned campus of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown. For lovers of fine art, it’s an occasion worthy of fireworks: On the Fourth read more

    Clark Art Institute — A museum transformed
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    Couple’s efforts lead to new arts center for Pittsfield

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    By JOHN TOWNESContributing writer PITTSFIELD, Mass. Over the past two years, a Pittsfield native’s desire to give something back to her hometown has resulted in the creation of a new arts center in a converted mansion in the city center.The Whitney Center for the Arts began hosting performances and exhibitions last summer in a sprawling read more

    Couple’s efforts lead to new arts center for Pittsfield
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    Long wait for PCB cleanup

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    EPA offers draft proposal for Housatonic, drawing new criticism By DAVID SCRIBNERContributing writer LENOX, Mass. Woods Pond in Lenox, Mass., is among the stretches of the Housatonic River most heavily contaminated with PCBs. Dredging to remove the pollution wouldn’t be completed until 2029 under a cleanup plan released last month by the U.S. Environmental Protection read more

    Long wait for PCB cleanup
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    Saving a planet, one step at a time

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    Pair from Berkshires join cross-country trek for climate-change action By ALEX ELVINContributing writer WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.   Shira Wohlberg has walked more than 1,000 miles since March, when she set out from Los Angeles as part of a coast-to-coast march aimed at spurring action to combat climate change.By late May, the group had made its way read more

    Saving a planet, one step at a time
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    Teresita Fernandez — Large in scope, tiny in detail

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    Perception of scale provides keys to new Mass MoCA exhibit By JOHN SEVENContributing writer   Carrie Snyder photo The installation “Sfumato (Epic),” featuring 40,000 small graphite rocks, is among the pieces that make up Brooklyn artist Teresita Fernandez’s new show at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams.   NORTH ADAMS, Mass.When Brooklyn-based read more

    Teresita Fernandez — Large in scope, tiny in detail
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    Mass. weighs immigrant driver’s licenses

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    Backers say change would boost safety, help foreign workers By DAVID SCRIBNERContributing writer   Nestor Vazquez, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who has lived in the United States for seven years, would love to have a Massachusetts driver’s license. But Vazquez, who lives in Springfield and works for a company in Connecticut, can’t get a read more

    Mass. weighs immigrant driver’s licenses
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    Rediscovering a Latin American epic

    Local press plans new translation of Neruda’s ‘Canto General’ By ALEX ELVINContributing writer   NORTH ADAMS, Mass.An independent press in the Berkshires is preparing to publish the first English translation in more than 20 years of Pablo Neruda’s epic “Canto General.” First published in its current form in 1950, Neruda’s ode to the people and read more

    Rediscovering a Latin American epic
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    Theater festival goes urban

    Berkshire Fringe finds new home in Pittsfield arts district By STACEY MORRISContributing writer   PITTSFIELD, Mass.After nine years of producing cutting-edge summer theater in Great Barrington, The Berkshire Fringe will celebrate its 10th anniversary in August at a new home in Pittsfield’s Upstreet arts district. From its new urban base at the Shire City Sanctuary, read more

    Theater festival goes urban
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    Planning for our car-free youth

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    As a generation shuns driving, towns push for better transit options By DAVID SCRIBNER Contributing writer When Massachusetts legislators were debating an ambitious multi-year transportation funding bill last year, longtime state Rep. William F. “Smitty” Pignatelli was asked whether he supported a push by Gov. Deval Patrick and others to restore passenger rail service between read more

    Planning for our car-free youth
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    Health care reform hits home

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    Area navigators describe progress, pitfalls in covering the uninsured By EVAN LAWRENCE Contributing writer The rollout of new state-run health insurance exchanges in New York, Vermont and Massachusetts hasn’t been free of problems, but in the past few months thousands of people in the region have been able to use the new system to shop read more

    Health care reform hits home