Great Barrington Selectboard Gets Updates On Bridge Work, Housatonic School wamc.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wamc.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The former mill building known as Cookâs Garage, as seen from across the Housatonic River in Housatonic village. Town officials are exploring a fiber-optic broadband system for Housatonic that they believe might help attract developers and businesses to old mill buildings. EAGLE FILE PHOTO
GREAT BARRINGTON â Town officials still are pressing for utility companies to tell them what it would take to build a fiber-optic hub that would help bring broadbandâs gold standard into a village whose vacant mills and other old buildings cry for reawakening.
With broadband, itâs rarely quick â workers have to go pole by pole to investigate the capacity of each, and learn from National Grid and Verizon what it all might cost.
Gabrielle Senza checks in at the Great Barrington Fire Station to vote in the town elections Tuesday. BEN GARVER â THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
GREAT BARRINGTON â Garfield Reed beat incumbent Kate Burke by a 20-vote margin in a tight three-way contest for two Select Board seats that centered on the marijuana industry, as well as diversity at Town Hall.
Eric Gabriel won the second vacant seat on the board with 649 votes. Reed received 619 votes, and Burke 599, according to unofficial results released by Town Clerk Jennifer Messina on Tuesday night. There were 10 write-in candidates and 295 blanks.
Philip Orenstein secured one of two Finance Committee seats with 745 votes. In a last-minute contest that began Monday with two write-in candidates, Michelle Loubert received 149 votes, beating Karen Smith by 19. Loubert had decided not to run for reelection, then changed her mind.
Town still struggles with former Housatonic school, now too dangerous for workers berkshireeagle.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from berkshireeagle.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.