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Real Pickles of Greenfield makes its mark with Good Food Award
GREENFIELD — Famed sports writer Grantland Rice once wrote, it’s not “that you won or lost — but how you played the game.”. The same might be said of Real Pickles in Greenfield: It has earned a nationally recognized Good Food Award for its Organic Sauerkraut not just because it’s sumptuous, but also for the environmentally and socially responsible way the company does business.
Making movies more accessible to Spanish-speaking families in Franklin County
Greenfield Garden Cinemas has partnered with TheaterEars to make first-run movies available in Spanish for the first time in Franklin County. The TheaterEars program is available in the App Store and Google Play on all smartphones and is free of charge. Spanish speakers who live in or are visiting the...
North Adams Liquor Store Has New Owner; Vegan Eatery Gets Alcohol License
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The former V&V liquor store is expected to reopen under new management. The License Board on Tuesday approved two license transfers including one for V&V and a license for a restaurant in the former BrewHaHa on West Main Street. Tracy Rackauskas and Benjamin Dinsmore, owners...
The closeness of neighbors
Corey DiMario is a musician and the proprietor of Patio Coffee, at the Hooker-Dunham block, at 139 Main St. in Brattleboro. BRATTLEBORO-I learned of Byron Stookey's passing on the morning of April 12, just before I opened my pop-up coffee shop at the Hooker-Dunham building, where he and his wife, Lee, have lived for 15 years.
Fourth Corner Foundation in Windham offers tour
WINDHAM-Nestled in the hills of Windham is the Fourth Corner Foundation, the brainchild of the late architect and artist Robert Foote Shannon. Shannon's work focused on balancing human-made designs with the natural environment. His former home, which includes striking buildings and structures as well as several acres of gardens, is open to the public.
BAAMS Brass and Vocals Workshop
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Berkshires Academy of Arts & Music Studies (BAAMS) will hold trombone and brass, and vocals workshop featuring Steve Davis and Abena Koomson-Davis. This opportunity will take place at the BAAMS academy in North Adams, MA, located at Building 6 in the Heritage State Park on Saturday, May 18, from 11 am to 1:30 pm.
Marlboro family gets artwork back that was taken by the Nazis 84 years ago
Andy Reichsman lives in Marlboro, and for the past 70 years his family has been trying to get back a collection of artwork that was stolen from Reichsman’s grandfather during the Holocaust. Late last year, the government of Croatia, in what was a first for that country, returned two...
Honoring the darkness, unearthing the joy
BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro School of Dance's annual spring show, "Shadows & Glimmers: An Evening of Dance," will feature more than 50 dancers, ages 6 to 72, who live, work, and attend school in the community. "Evoking themes of shadows, where light and darkness meet, and glimmers, where inescapable joy bursts forth...
Sullivan holds ‘Form and Flora’ show at MSA gallery
SAXTONS RIVER-Join local artist Stephanie Sullivan at an artist reception for a new gallery show, "Form and Flora," at Main Street Arts (MSA), 35 Main St., on Saturday, May 18, from 2 to 4 p.m. "Form and Flora" will feature several paintings by Sullivan. The show will run from May...
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