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Selected people read aloud excerpts and poems from books banned or challenged by the Florida state government, or works that have been challenged in the past. Topics included literature exploring African Americans, anti-war themes and the Holocaust. Attendees were also given the chance to take home a banned book.

Family reunions, play dates and holidays never looked so good. But for some, isolation and sadness linger.

Enjoy the Berkshires summer weather this week at one of these outdoor concert venues.

Sherry Steiner and Roxanne McCaffrey have joined the board of directors of Community Television for the Southern Berkshires and will represent Great Barrington and Stockbridge, respectively

How We Got Through and What We Missed Most: Lessons From a Pandemic Year 61 Here, and below, some of the submissions by Times readers of images that most evoked the pandemic for them. Photos above are by Carol Panaro-Smith, Antonella DeCicci, Reshma Thomas, Susan Smith, Kathy Rebhan and Florence Silberman. It’s been a time of isolation and illness, of new habits and lessons, of grief and hope. As this pandemic year comes to an end, we asked people to describe, in their own words, what they...