Mark Lessner News Today

If you’ve visited a laundromat on Madison’s East Side over the last two decades, chances are you may have washed your clothes at one of Mark Lessner’s establishments. Lessner, 54, first started out in the laundromat business when he was about 10 years old helping his dad, who owned several businesses in Madison. About 23 years ago, Lessner became an owner himself and eventually purchased a few of his father’s businesses upon the elder’s retirement. Currently, Lessner ow...

RICHMOND — Balderdash Cellars, the winery relocated from a Pittsfield commercial building basement to a 25-acre farm just south of the city line, near Richmond Pond, has won conditional approval from the Select Board to renovate a deteriorated barn on the property to host events, primarily indoors, including music. As one of a mere handful of businesses in the rural town, Balderdash and its owners, Christian and Donna Hanson, have been welcomed warmly by many residents. But, some others, p...