By Tela Zasloff   There was a strange threesome at the farm—strange, at least, according to my limited knowledge of ducks. They were two males and a female, a ménage-à-trois, with the additional complication that the second male was an alien who dropped down from the sky one day and stayed for good. The female […]

  Outcome of the Greylock Economic Working Group Forum on August 11 By Tela Zasloff   On the hot summer night of August 11, over 50 people gathered for three hours in the cavernous space provided by GreylockWORKS, a place fully appropriate for holding a public discussion on how to develop our Greylock region—the owners […]

Four candidates are running in the September 8 Primary for Ben Downing’s seat in the Massachusetts State Senate.  They explain why they are running     Benjamin Downing, State Senator for Berkshire, Hampshire, Franklin and Hampden Districts, is not running for re-election. There are three candidates running for his seat in the Democratic primary on […]

Be part of the Greylock Economy Working Group The Berkshires have always been a center of creativity. Until late in the 20th century, our region contributed literary, spiritual and industrial ideas to a growing nation—and attracted thousands of prosperous city dwellers, and aspiring immigrants, to build and work in factories. But industrial economics has not favored us. […]

By Shira Lynn Wohlberg and Tony Pisano     Getting stung Shira: A few summers ago, my forearm got really swollen after I got stung. For a few days, before it receded, I’d just watch this thing–my arm, getting fatter and more alien. I’d feel like I was walking at an angle, as if everything […]

By Charlotte Degen         The thick rotting smell of mud and seaweed at low tide, swarms of green-headed flies, and sea creatures with their own or borrowed shells or no shells—dominated my first impression of Cape Cod 45 years ago. Despite this first olfactory insult, 44 years later, I agreed to move to the […]