Township Four News Today

To the editor: Thanks for your coverage of the mayoral candidates statements on their North Street rescue strategy. ("Downtown business owners seek North Street solutions from Pittsfield mayoral candidates," Eagle,

The iconic Berkshires inn will honor its 250th anniversary with a wealth of new programming and events.

Wendy Pearson has always felt comfortable in libraries. Thats how she became the director of the Stockbridge Library, Museum & Archives in Stockbridge.

Jed Thompson of Township Four in Stockbridge walks us through a lesson on the design and care of a bouquet for your valentine.

Janis Monachina, a Lee native who opened The Shop Around the Corner at the inn on Memorial Day Weekend, had been manager of The Pink Kitty gift store in the

The owners of Township Four Floristry & Home were planning to set up shop in Lee after leaving Pittsfield. Then they received a phone call from the owner of the

PITTSFIELD — Call me a wedding planner! Weddings, as we knew them prior to COVID-19, are on the horizon.  If all goes well, Massachusetts will relax its gathering restrictions for indoor and outdoor events on May 29, allowing for groups of 200 indoors and 250 outdoors; with a plan to remove all business restrictions on Aug. 1.  "I think that may be a sign. Aug. 1 is Herman Melvilles birthday," said Lesley Herzberg, executive director of the Berkshire County Historical Society at Herman M...

Or is it a hidden meaning in a classic Bob Dylan song? Over time, sleuths have figured out that the term “420” originated with a bunch of West Coast kids in the early 1970s, who used the phrase as code for when to meet after school for some puff-puff-pass. Since then, April 20 has become known worldwide as the time of day for grown-ups (not high school kids) to press pause on life and take a break with their favorite form of cannabis. For Berkshire Roots, the county’s first and l...

PITTSFIELD — The wreath went into a box. The box went into the mail. And then, it seems, into limbo. Township Four Floristry & Home, a downtown Pittsfield gift store, paid about $25 to select “Priority” shipping for the wreath it sent Nov. 27 to a customer in Rhode Island. On Saturday, 15 days later, co-owner Jed Thompson checked the U.S. Postal Service’s tracking system and found that the box containing that token of holiday warmth was cooling its heels somewhere in souther...

PITTSFIELD — The wreath went into a box. The box went into the mail. And then, it seems, into limbo. Township Four Floristry & Home, a downtown Pittsfield gift store, paid about $25 to select “Priority” shipping for the wreath it sent Nov. 27 to a customer in Rhode Island. On Saturday, 15 days later, co-owner Jed Thompson checked the U.S. Postal Service’s tracking system and found that the box containing that token of holiday warmth was cooling its heels somewhere in souther...