Tag: Massachusetts

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    Faster path for wind power?

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    Mass. weighs bill to streamline development process By CRAIG IDLEBROOK Contributing writer HANCOCK, Mass.When 10 windmills atop Brodie Mountain began generating electricity earlier this year, the Berkshire Wind Power Project became the largest commercial wind farm in Massachusetts. But some say the $65 million project, first proposed back in 1998, offers a cautionary tale about read more

    Faster path for wind power?
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    Reviving a slice of Pittsfield history

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    Century-old play set to return to Colonial stage By NANCY ROTHMAN Contributing writer PITTSFIELD, Mass.A little more than 100 years ago, a local playwright and a composer dug into Pittsfield’s past to create a lighthearted look at the events near the end of the War of 1812. The result was a comedic opera, called “The read more

    Reviving a slice of Pittsfield history
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    Study backs restoring trains to Berkshires

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    Service would boost tourism, attract more young adults, economist says By DAVID SCRIBNER Contributing writer PITTSFIELD, Mass.In 1971, when the last passenger train from New York City creaked into the nearly deserted Pittsfield terminal, the price of gasoline was 36 cents a gallon. For the most part, people at that time who traveled to metropolitan read more

    Study backs restoring trains to Berkshires
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    Equinox Farms responds to food safety and leafy greens

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    Small producers skeptical of push for national rules By CRAIG IDLEBROOK Contributing writer SHEFFIELD, Mass.As a veteran grower of leafy green vegetables, Ted Dobson has a hard time seeing the need for a new food-safety regimen being pushed by the federal government. For nearly three decades, Dobson has been producing lettuce, salad mixes and other read more

    Equinox Farms responds to food safety and leafy greens
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    Markets with a mission

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    Food co-ops expand their reach – and goals – around the region They did far better than that. By the time of its official grand opening on July 23, the co-op, with its old-fashioned barrels of bulk goods and signature 1950s appliances, had signed up 213 members. Those members paid either an annual $20 fee read more

    Markets with a mission
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    The second-home economy

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    Some see double-edged sword in region’s growth as rural getaway By NED OLIVER Contributing writer GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. Chris Martin and Anita Hotchkis spent a recent weekday morning tending the ever-evolving garden that surrounds their waterfront home in Great Barrington. The couple finished building their home overlooking Round Pond last year, but they still spend read more

    The second-home economy