Solomon Wright Library News Today

The warning for Pownals annual Town Meeting ahead of the March 5 ballot includes municipal and highway budget requests and 24 separate requests for funding or reserve fund changes.

The new director of Solomon Wright Public Library, Emily Gold, is planning outreach efforts to involve the Pownal community.

The prevailing version of history has been that Native Americans didn’t actually live in the Berkshire area prior to the founding of Indiantown (Stockbridge). They were just passing through, for hunting, trade or interacting with other tribes. Well, it’s easy to see how, if colonists of European extraction were appropriating Native American land, that would be a convenient truth. But a series of archaeological digs and research is amassing evidence that Indigenous people, known as the...