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An interpretive display installed in May sits before the historic Clinton A.M.E. Zion Church at 9 Elm Court in Great Barrington. Community members formed Clinton Church Restoration to rehabilitate the historic Black church, which W. E. B. Du Bois attended as a child, and repurpose it as a heritage site and visitor center. The Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area on Thursday announced a grant of nearly $500,000 that will go toward structural work on the building.BEN GARVER â THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
GREAT BARRINGTON â The effort to restore the former building of a historic Black church is âa multi-phase, multi-million dollar project thatâs going to take years,â says Eugenie Sills, interim executive director for the nonprofit Clinton Church Restoration.
Where: Monument Mountain Regional High School, 600 Stockbridge Road/Route 7
Highlight: For a second year, Great Barrington will hold its annual town meeting drive-in style, in the Monument High parking lot. A second date, of June 10, is reserved, should the meeting run late and into darkness, as it did last year, or encounter bad weather.
Select Board Chairman Stephen Bannon said if voters are familiar with the warrant and prepared, voting could be finished Monday. He said town officials âlook forward to an efficient town meeting.â The warrant can be found on the townâs website.
Child care wonât be available this year, though children can attend if they are supervised. Transportation is offered for those who need it. Call the Claire Teague Senior Center by June 4 to reserve a seat in a town van.
Where: Monument Mountain Regional High School, 600 Stockbridge Road/Route 7
Highlight: For a second year, Great Barrington will hold its annual town meeting drive-in style, in the Monument High parking lot. A second date, of June 10, is reserved, should the meeting run late and into darkness, as it did last year, or encounter bad weather.
Select Board Chairman Stephen Bannon said if voters are familiar with the warrant and prepared, voting could be finished Monday. He said town officials look forward to an efficient town meeting. The warrant can be found on the town s website.
Child care won t be available this year, though children can attend if they are supervised. Transportation is offered for those who need it. Call the Claire Teague Senior Center by June 4 to reserve a seat in a town van.
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