" event is a remarkable collaboration between many groups and individuals that care about W.E.B. Du Bois and the principles that he fought for,” Rachel Fletcher, founder of the Housatonic River Walk, said at the beginning of the event.
During a citizens' comment period of the August 8 Great Barrington Select Board meeting, Housatonic resident Denise Forbes spoke about an organized protest event that she is planning with Great Barrington Resident Sharon Gregory against Housatonic Water Works.
The W.E.B. Du Bois Sculpture Project nonprofit has presented one of its new drawings showing a life-sized Du Bois, in bronze, holding a book in an oval-shaped plaza with marble
The Great Barrigton Select Board discussed possible issues surrounding its proposed merger of the Berkshire Hills and Southern Berkshire regional school districts in its July 25 meeting, including the possibility of one of the eight towns in the district voting against the merger and how to build an appropriately sized school building for a new school district that would be declining in enrollment.
GREAT BARRINGTON Alarmed by accidents and near-misses in Main Street crosswalks over the years, town officials compromised on a plan to add flashers and "refuge" islands to beef up