Monterey News

The family of the late Gregory Hillman received some vindication in an otherwise tragic story last month when a judge ruled against the medical facility charged with the young Darien man's care.

If the three outlying community schools in the Southern Berkshire Regional School District remain open, administrators say they will go back to voters to seek the needed funding to maintain them.

The DCR is requesting a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' New England District for maintenance work on the manmade dam at Benedict Pond.

Tensions rose dramatically at the second hearing on the proposed closing of the outlying schools of the Southern Berkshire Regional School District, with numerous residents questioning the district's leadership.

Tonight's hearing on the proposed school closings in the Southern Berkshire Regional School District has been moved from Town Hall to the fire station.

Because of tight budgets, the schools are targeted by their districts, partly because of rapidly declining enrollments and, even more significantly, because the buildings seem like 19th-century relics in a 21st-century world.

WiredWest, the South County-based group seeking to expand universal broadband access to municipalities in this area, is applying for a state grant to provide the financing for a system that would allow individuals and businesses to connect directly to the MassBroadband123 network.