Avaloch Inn News Today

Claire Collery, 35, has purchased the hotel for a total of $3,385,000 and hopes to make it a community gathering place as well as a destination for guests.

Philanthropist and community advocate Howard Kaufman, whose family founded the former KB Toys of Pittsfield, a national toy retailer, died Thursday in Israel at the age of 96.

LENOX — A family-run New York City-based firm that operates boutique hotels and short-term stay rentals has purchased the Apple Tree Inn, a 34-room bed-and-breakfast across from Tanglewood that originally was a 19th-century estate and briefly was owned in the 1970s by Alice Brock of "Alices Restaurant Massacree" fame. Aries Living purchased the property at 10 Richmond Mountain Road from Sharon A. Walker for $2.4 million, according to documents filed at the Berkshire Middle District Regis...