The Great Barrington Planning Board unanimously approved a new site plan for the long-in-the-works project to turn the former Searles School into the 88-room Berkshire Hotel.
In a Thursday, September 22 meeting, Great Barrington's Planning Board discussed a letter to the Select Board concerning the ongoing crisis facing Housatonic Water Works and its impact on the economic development of the town. The board, however, decided not to send the letter in its current form.