Editorial: Fall
Fall is here. We, in The Berkshires, can feel the crisp air. Fall arrived on the calendar Saturday, Sept. 21 with clouds and spots of sunshine throughout the day. There…
Editorial: Community-Minded resident dies unexpectedly
Editor’s Note: Normally deaths are treated in the obituary section. However, Mr. Herrick’s untimely death at a young age deserves our reporting and acknowledgement. A Liturgy of Christian Burial for…
Editorial: Miley Cyrus’s twerk
On the entertainment scene, it was Miley Cyrus at the MTV Video Music Awards last month that set the tone with her “twerking” and sticking out her tongue to the…
Editorial: Summertime
We know that summertime and living is easy applies to Berkshire County especially to Lee, Lenox, Stockbridge and West Stockbridge. We might even say it about Great Barrington and North…
Editorial: Time has come
The time has come for the town meeting members to re-visit the need for a town manager, given the circumstances of last week when the intended party reneged at the…
Editorial: Labor Day
On the one hand, summer vacation is coming to a close this weekend for many people. The weather patterns were all over the place this summer, but many will remember…
Editorial: Verizon Switch building
When a local select board takes up an issue of a distressed property owned by a public utility, it means that the communication between the two bodies has lost contact…
Editorial: Decisions
“Pittsfield Attorney Michael J. McCarthy should be a District Court judge,” reads the lead in a Berkshire Eagle story. Yet, we have appointments by the Governor that we agree or…
Change may be good
From time to time, real estate owners in the Lenox Historic District attempt to make change without regard to the historic signicance of its past. This is why we have…
Editorial: Lenox Parking
One sure way to turn-off tourists and their families is to issue a parking ticket without a series of posted warning signs of limited parking to two hours. If Lenox…