West Stockbridge News

Following the tweaking of some of the language, the Selectmen Monday night unanimously approved a resolution opposing the establishment of a charter school in their school district.

The girl was 4 or 5 years old. She was shy. "You don't have to come all the way over here to sing," David Grover said as he sat in the corner of the dining room at Xicohtencatl, a Mexican restaurant that has been his Tuesday night gig for several months.

We have several bluebirds in our yard in West Stockbridge. We love to see them, but one has become a problem! It started last spring when he would flutter around the rear view mirrors of our cars parked in the driveway.

A group working to harvest hyrdo-generated electricity from local dams has identified 11 dams that, if fitted with turbines, could pump an average of 1,169 kilowatts of power into the grid, enough to supply the average need of more than 300 homes.

Every year there are more of them - buildings made of gingerbread. If you created one at any time over the last five years, chances are, you will continue to make one or two or half a dozen - as the girls from Miss Hall's School in Pittsfield did last year.

Firefighters from five communities were called out Monday to fight a large, spreading fire in the Interlaken part of town.

At a special town meeting, a handful of voters approved the transfer of a total of $32,800 for roads, health insurance and solar panels on the town hall roof.

A West Springfield man is in police custody in Wisconsin after kidnapping a car salesman while on a test drive.

Police in Wisconsin have arrested a man who was being sought by Massachusetts police after allegedly stealing a car from a West Springfield auto dealership and kidnapping a salesman.

West Springfield police said Thursday night they will apply for an arrest warrant for kidnapping and motor vehicle larceny, after a man fled on the Massachusetts Turnpike in a vehicle he was test driving from a Riverdale Street dealership with the sales associate as a passenger.

A car salesman was taken on a wild ride Thursday afternoon, resulting in him being dumped off on the Mass.

A four-month long investigation by Great Barrington Police and members of the Berkshire County Drug Task Force led to a major round-up of heroin dealers in South County on Friday.

West Stockbridge has always been one of my favorite destinations in the Berkshires, and Truc Orient Express Vietnamese Restaurant has stood the test of time to become one of the landmarks in the heart of the town center.

Gerald ''Jerry'' I. Levitch of Greenfield died Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009, peacefully at home at the age of 91.

F or some it was a taste of victory; for others, it was eating crow. But for the judges of Hancock Shaker Village's fourth annual Pie Contest, the Saturday event could only be described as one sweet deal.

Last week, while taking part in a funeral procession, we once again witnessed the lack of respect of a motorist.

A second attempt to sell The Leaning Institute of America building at 150 Pittsfield Road by public auction is scheduled for Friday.

Sitting in vigil at Senator Edward M. Kennedy's wake yesterday were Jack Caldwell from Melrose, Gene Dellea from West Stockbridge, Don Dowd from West Springfield, and Sharon Waxman, foreign policy adviser with Kennedy's Washington office.

They're simple gestures: A touch of the hair, the gift of a bag or a book. But it's the Berkshire County community's way of helping the children of America's Camp find comfort in their lives.

They're simple gestures: A touch of the hair, the gift of a bag or a book. But it's the Berkshire County community's way of helping the children of America's Camp find comfort in their lives.