Stockbridge News

No, he's not proposing eradication, but he is suggesting we all think a little more about how we view who's moving in to our forests, fields, lakes and rivers, and how we respond.

A national sigh of relief, at least in the nation's boonies, was heard when word came that rural post offices would not be closed.

The town has opened a "swap shack" at its transfer station across from Monument Moun tain Regional High School on Stockbridge Road.

Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum opened for the season on Saturday without its popular tourist train excursions between Lenox Dale and Stockbridge -- the result of a failure to secure a new agreement with the track's owners, Housatonic Railroad Co.

Thomas Skakel - long a prime suspect in the killing of Martha Moxley in the eyes of police and the public - walked tentatively down the courtroom aisle Wednesday and embraced his younger brother, defendant Michael Skakel.

Fairfield University's Bellarmine Museum of Art will have "Everett Raymond Kinstler: Pulps to Portraits," an exhibit of paintings and illustrations by American portrait artist Everett Raymond Kinstler, from Thursday, June 14, through Friday, Sept.

Irina Borisova's Gallery, free with reservation. Ceramics, illustrations, graphics, animation, and puppets from around the globe.

The iconic Williamstown Theatre Festival kicks off its season on June 26 with Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest." Great musicals and dramas are on tap at Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, which begins its season with "Fiddler on the Roof" and caps it with "Lord of the Flies." Mainstage at 30 Union St., Pittsfield; Stage II at the ... (more)

Darrell K. English procured a datebook used by Oskar Schindler to promote his enamelware factory.

Voters at town meeting sailed through a 30-article warrant on Mon day evening and ap proved a $10.2 million spending plan for fiscal 2013, which represents a 5.6 percent increase compared to the current budget.

There is a photograph in the Guthrie Center in VanDeusenville that explains perfectly the reasons for the "Guthrie Historic Garbage Trail Walk." It is a small photo, and one has to look hard to find it.

As the historic downtown business district begins filling up with visitors, frustration over complex policies restricting sandwich-board signs has boiled over and spilled into the lap of the Select Board for a possible resolution Wednesday night.

Irina Borisova's Gallery, free with reservation. Ceramics, illustrations, graphics, animation, and puppets from around the globe.

Taxpayers will be asked to approve $10,177,000 in total spending for the upcoming year, up 5.6 percent from the current total of $9,637,000. The proposed budget contains $2,679,000 for the Berkshire Hills Regional School District, including operating and capital-improvement costs, only a minor increase from this year's budget.

Updated and re-written: Friday, May 11, 2012 at 3:33 p.m. with Berkshire Scenic Railway's response.

Despite denials by state and federal agencies of any safety issues involving the Berk shire Scenic Railway Mu seum, the Housatonic Railroad Co.

Irina Borisova's Gallery, free with reservation. Ceramics, illustrations, graphics, animation, and puppets from around the globe.

Richard J. Clemens, born October 10, 1928, died May 6, 2012 at the age of 83. Mr. Clemens was born in New York City and relocated to Stock bridge, Mass.

Voters here on Monday approved the operating budgets of the town and Berkshire Hills Regional School District, but balked at the purchase of a new fire truck and a temporary prohibition on large-scale solar projects.

Richard "Dick" Clemens, a retired Massachusetts state trooper who posed for Norman Rockwell's famous 1958 painting, "The Runaway," died Sunday.