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Addiction in the Berkshires: Four-part ‘Sara’s story’ hits home
Journalists are insulted, scapegoated and martyred for telling the truth. With every news story that afflicts the comfortable and comforts the afflicted, I am spurred on to earn the title and join the...
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PROFILE: Charles Miller, new SBRSD elementary principal
Sheffield — Charles Miller has a penchant for footwear. Seriously. He wrote a thesis on sneaker consumerism, which, after immediately noticing my own footwear — a pair of Allbirds wool runners,...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Here comes the sun, Venus, waxing moon and Leonid meteors
November 12 – 25, 2018 Mount Washington — Out for a walk one late afternoon on a recent weekend away from home, I looked up to appreciate the Sun. My senses were heightened in response to arriving on...
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Fall Festival of Shakespeare celebrates 30 years
Fall Festival of Shakespeare celebrates 30 years Image courtesy Shakespeare & Company Image courtesy Shakespeare & Company Lenox — Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, the annual Fall...
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PROFILE: Timothy Lee, Muddy Brook Regional Elementary School principal
Great Barrington — Timothy Lee is a big fan of going to school each day. After a decade in Lenox, six years of which were spent at the helm of Morris Elementary School and four as superintendent of...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Moon softens edges between day and night
November 26 – December 9, 2018 The size of the moon is greatly exaggerated in this chart! Day by day, before dawn, watch for the waning moon to sink toward Venus and to meet up with this dazzling world...
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Monument athlete Aubrey Blanchard celebrated at Harvard as a Positive...
Monument Mountain Regional High School senior Aubrey Blanchard. Photo courtesy Positive Coaching Alliance Great Barrington — A dozen basketballs, 11 high school student-athletes and 22 Harvard men’s...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Solstice lights: Paired planets, shooting stars, Full Long...
Mount Washington — The delightful meteor shower image “The November Meteors” by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot would have been inspired by the annual Leonid meteor shower. This week December’s Geminid...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Reach for extraterrestrial holiday lights on darkest, latest...
December 24, 2018 – January 6, 2019 Mount Washington — The dark of night extends into morning most noticeably from today through mid-January: In our neighborhood, the Sun rises around 7:20 a.m....
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‘More than just travel’: SBRSD takes global education program to the next level
Sheffield — If all goes according to plan, the Southern Berkshire Regional School District will soon play a larger role in making the world a smaller place. Mount Everett Regional School, which...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Sky-high drama! Total eclipse of the Moon 20th to 21st....
January 7 – 20, 2019 Mount Washington — “When you think about it, there aren’t many celestial objects that change color. … But now, on January 20, the Moon will have real color, deep color.” Bob...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Mornings with the gods, and other wonders
January 21 – February 3, 2019 Jan. 22, southeast, one hour before sunrise. See text. Image: Judy Isacoff/Starry Night Mount Washington — All week and into next, there is a dance taking place on the...
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Profile of a first-generation college-bound student: Stone Murphy
Stone Murphy is a senior at Monument Mountain Regional High School in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, where his advanced drama class just wrapped its full-house show “A Comedy About a Bank Robbery,”...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Groundhog, Lion, Valentine and Venus
February 4 – 17, 2019 Every day, a ball of fire crosses the sky. This bizarre reality was so flabbergasting in ancient times that people could relate to it only with worship. The Aztecs and Egyptians...
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CVTE is gaining momentum at Monument Mountain Regional High School
Great Barrington — It was a large, energized group at Monument Mountain Regional High School that braved frigid temperatures last Thursday night for a CVTE (career/vocational technical education)...
View ArticleEYES TO THE SKY: Song to the Sun
February 18 – March 4, 2019 Mount Washington — It was nearly 7 a.m. and 14 degrees under a pale blue sky dappled with speeding, silvery-outlined golden clouds overhead. I was walking swiftly to an...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Arc to Arcturus, herald of spring. March 10 Eastern Daylight...
March 4 – 17, 2019 Mount Washington — At this moment every year, we meet to observe with delight the first signs of spring in the sky, before the earth thaws. The increasing light and heat of the Sun...
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NATURE’S TURN: Praise Berkshire winter – and south Florida oases for...
March 11 – 24, 2019 Mount Washington — Clear azure to cerulean skies surround sunlit, snow-blanketed forests, meadows, gardens and frozen ponds on Berkshire hilltops as I write during the first week of...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Spring astronomy, skygazing wonders, Dark Sky Week begins
March 18 – 31, 2019 Image courtesy EarthSky.org Mount Washington — Everyday movements of the planets, stars, moon and Sun, through day and night, are “aha” moments when we remark the changes of their...
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April 1 – 14, 2019 Mount Washington — The spectacular image above was produced by Donald R. Pettit, a NASA astronaut, from multiple photographs captured during Expedition XXXI of the International...
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