Tag: Pittsfield

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    Once tenants, now owners

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    This fall, a group of residents of Lake Onota Village, a mobile home park off Valentine Road on the west side of Pittsfield, joined together to buy the park for $5.5 million. — By John Townes read more

    Once tenants, now owners
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    Equity project pushes to transform region’s cultural workplaces

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    Equity project pushes to transform region’s cultural workplaces Christopher Duggan photo courtesy of Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer   Imagine the people who make creative work happen in an arts or cultural institution all having a stake and a voice in the organization’s operations and mission. Or imagine creative organizations clearly read more

    Equity project pushes to transform region’s cultural workplaces
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    Downtown revival with a social mission — Pittsfield project aims for cooperative ownership

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    Pittsfield project aims for cooperative ownership of businesses, real estate   A coalition of nonprofit groups aims to transform a block of buildings opposite Pittsfield City Hall into a revitalized urban hub, starting with the reopening of the King Kone ice cream shop as an employee-owned cooperative. Susan Sabino photo   By JOHN TOWNESContributing writer read more

    Downtown revival with a social mission — Pittsfield project aims for cooperative ownership
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    Pulitzer-winning ‘English’ explores dreams, fears inside Iran

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    Pulitzer-winning ‘English’ explores dreams, fears inside Iran   The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sanaz Toossi is playing one of the parts in Barrington Stage’s production of “English,” which runs through Oct. 15. Courtesy photo   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer PITTSFIELD, Mass. Four students walk into a classroom in a city in the mountains. Tonight, they’ve come read more

    Pulitzer-winning ‘English’ explores dreams, fears inside Iran
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    Cadillac Crew celebrates women who drove the civil rights era

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    WAM Theatre presents ‘Cadillac Crew’ Oct. 13-29   Cate Alston and Kyra Davis perform in a rehearsal last month for WAM Theatre’s upcoming production of “Cadillac Crew.” David Dashiell photo/courtesy WAM Theatre   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer LENOX, Mass. It’s late spring or early summer 1963, and four women are talking in the office of read more

    Cadillac Crew celebrates women who drove the civil rights era
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    Cell-tower dispute puts Pittsfield at center of national debate

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    Cell tower dispute puts Pittsfield at center of a national debate   Courtney Gilardi and her daughters stand outside their home in Pittsfield, Photo by Susan Sabino.   By TRACY FRISCHContributing writer PITTSFIELD, Mass. Courtney Gilardi’s 9-year-old daughter came downstairs one morning in the late summer of 2020 and announced that she was feeling “headachy, read more

    Cell-tower dispute puts Pittsfield at center of national debate
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    On Pittsfield cell tower city’s leaders fumble

    If 20 people were sickened by a toxic release from a chemical factory in their neighborhood, most of us would expect some public authority to take charge promptly to limit further public exposure and environmental damage. So when 20 people in Pittsfield, Mass., began reporting nearly two years ago that they were being sickened by read more

    On Pittsfield cell tower city’s leaders fumble
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    In sign of spring new life emerges on farms

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    Area events provide close encounters with piglets, lambs and more   Piglets are among the new arrivals this spring at the annual Baby Animals festival at Hancock Shaker Village in the Berkshires. Susan Sabino photo.   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer HANCOCK, Mass. The barn is different on a spring night. Calves lie in the hay read more

    In sign of spring new life emerges on farms
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    Rewriting the rules for egg farms

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    Mass. legislators move to change voter-backed law   Cartons of eggs fill a refrigerated display at Guido’s Fresh Marketplace in Pittsfield. Large-scale egg producers are pushing Massachusetts to revise its pending rules for humane treatment of laying hens, though the smaller-scale suppliers of Guido’s aren’t affected by the changes. Susan Sabino photo.   By CRAIG read more

    Rewriting the rules for egg farms
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    As pandemic limits visitors, museums work to adapt

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    As pandemic limits visitors, museums work to stay connected   After the Covid-19 crisis forced it to close its building from mid-March until July, the Bennington Museum is now operating on a restricted basis. Photo by Joan K. Lentini   By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer   When Covid-19 began to spread into the region in early read more

    As pandemic limits visitors, museums work to adapt