Tag: Massachusetts

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    Celebrating a folk legend

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    Performances around region mark Woody Guthrie centennial By EVAN LAWRENCE Contributing writer Woody Guthrie, one of America’s great voices during the Great Depression and World War II, was a restless soul. Leaving his home in Okemah, Okla., at the age of 18, he spent the next 23 years wandering the nation, moving frequently and traveling read more

    Celebrating a folk legend
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    Bipartisan push on mercury pollution

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    Senate vote keeps tougher emission controls on track By CRAIG IDLEBROOK Contributing writer PITTSFIELD, Mass.At first glance, Mark Jester doesn’t seem like the right demographic to be calling for tougher rules from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Jester is a registered Republican who ran in a special election for state representative last year, and his read more

    Bipartisan push on mercury pollution
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    A pinnacle of culture? Partners shape mission for Bascom Lodge

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    By JOHN TOWNES Contributing writer ADAMS, Mass.Brothers Peter and John Dudek and their business partner Brad Parsons are extending the vertical reach of the culture and the creative economy in the Berkshires. Three years ago, the men took over operation of Bascom Lodge, a historic structure at the summit of Mount Greylock, the highest point read more

    A pinnacle of culture? Partners shape mission for Bascom Lodge
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    Next step for health care

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    With coverage nearly universal, Mass. looks to cut costs, push prevention By CRAIG IDLEBROOK Contributing writer NORTH ADAMS, Mass. From his second-floor office on the campus of North Adams Regional Hospital, Chip Joffe-Halpern has a unique vantage point from which to watch the course of health care reform in Massachusetts. As executive director of Ecu-Health read more

    Next step for health care
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    Confronting a painful past

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    Berkshires artist leads as new group takes aim at sex trafficking By JOHN TOWNES Contributing writer LENOX, Mass. It’s a long way from Jeanet Ingalls’ early experiences of extreme poverty, violence and sexual abuse as a “street kid” in the Philippines four decades ago to her life as a mother, fitness trainer and artist in read more

    Confronting a painful past
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    A celebration of birds — Audubon prints at Berkshire Museum

    By EVAN LAWRENCE Contributing writer   PITTSFIELD, Mass.Bird lovers, prepare to be delighted. A new show at the Berkshire Museum, “Taking Flight: Audubon and the World of Birds,” pairs original prints from John James Audubon’s groundbreaking “Birds of America” with a dazzling collection of mounted birds and a gallery that introduces the wonder of bird read more

    A celebration of birds — Audubon prints at Berkshire Museum
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    Banking for the common good?

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    Group aims to grow alternative financial system in Mass. By EVAN LAWRENCE Contributing writer Consumers angry at the U.S. banking system could soon have an alternative way of saving and pooling their resources for the good of the community – at least if some people in western Massachusetts have their way. Common Good Finance, a read more

    Banking for the common good?
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    Berkshires adjust to new loss of clout

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    Political map shifts power further to east By DAVID SCRIBNER Contributing writer   It’s a long way from the days of Silvio Conte, the beloved Pittsfield Republican who represented the Berkshires in Congress for 32 years until his death in 1991. In the Conte years, Berkshire County felt itself to be the center of Massachusetts’ read more

    Berkshires adjust to new loss of clout
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    Children of industry

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    By JUDY BERNSTEIN Contributing writer   BENNINGTON, Vt.Looking at the canvas, you can almost hear the enormous machines whirring and clanging and feel the cotton lint hanging in the air of the mill room as you, a child, work. In another, you see “the overseer,” an ominous, shadowy presence. Maybe he’s there, or maybe he’s read more

    Children of industry
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    State pushes to limit Housatonic cleanup

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    Mass. backs GE’s call to restrict scope of PCB removal By DAVID SCRIBNER Contributing writer LENOX, Mass.From Canoe Meadows, the 285-acre Audubon wildlife preserve in southeast Pittsfield, the Housatonic River winds its way south in a coil of oxbows through a floodplain flanked by farms and wetlands, creating one of the most diverse wildlife habitats read more

    State pushes to limit Housatonic cleanup