Wayne Lemanski News Today

Entrepreneur Linda Law, who bought the historic Elm Court estate and rebranded it as Vanderbilt Berkshire Estate, keeps the existing special permit to renovate and preserve the 89-acre property.

With 18 percent of registered voters turning out for Monday’s annual town election, Town Moderator John McNinch won another one-term and two Select Board candidates won with no opposition.

There’s a rare race for Town Moderator, two candidates for two Select Board seats, and no listed names on the ballot for three School Committee slots.

Theres only one race, for town moderator. Two Select Board positions have one candidate piece, and two of the three open slots on the School Committee are up for grabs

LENOX, Mass. — Nomination papers for the following elected offices in the Town of Lenox are available in the Town Clerk's office.   (1) Moderator for one year (John McNinch...

LENOX — Thanks to robust new growth in the value of commercial and residential property, the town’s taxpayers can look forward to bills essentially unchanged, on average, from the past year. That’s the bottom line from the Select Board’s data-rich annual tax classification hearing Wednesday. After a presentation by Administrative Assessor Randy Austin, the board voted unanimously to keep the traditional split rate for taxation. For fiscal 2021, it will be $11.65 per thousand...