David Scribner

'We are not against Elm Court. We encourage smart growth, but this is the commercialization of a rural neighborhood.' --Old Stockbridge Road resident Barney Edmonds

"The people from Front Yard aren’t here to ravage the lifestyle of the people of Stockbridge." -- Robert Berle, former Elm Court owner

Amy Salinetti's kindergarten class did an inpection tour of their school grounds. They noticed that the American flag was a bit tattered.

At Muddy Brook Elementary School the Yolk Project collected more than $2,000 to donate to charities. Its motto: “Free range children changing the world one egg at a time.”

The town, apparently, is now considering a more active role in the anomaly, as Town Manager Jennifer Tabakin had declared before the DPU, of “a privately owned company that provides public water.” This report newly updated with statements by Town Counsel David Doneski regarding two executive sessions dealing with the Housatonic Water Works Company.

“Chess combines intellectual and emotional discipline – both of which are desperately needed in this irrational time. At the same time chess requires players to be polite and have decorum.” -- Gene Kalish, organizer of the Berkshire Hills Chess Club

Thousands of students nationwide are protesting the epidemic of school shootings. Gun violence in schools and the slaughter of school children has become a weekly affair. So far in 2018 there have been 20 school shootings, an average of 1.25 per week.

“I feel really blessed to live here.” -- Horticulturalist Peggy Rae Hendon-Wilson, newly elected to the Alford Select Board

“I am trying to bring opposites together. I am the bridge. How do you create peace, peace between men and women?” -- Pooja Prema, describing the purpose of her new work, “Flowers Falling from my Mouth”

There are several convenient options for bill payments and delivery of correspondence to town departments.