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The former mill building known as Cook’s Garage, as seen from across the Housatonic River in Housatonic village. Town officials are exploring a fiber-optic broadband system for Housatonic that they believe might help attract developers and businesses to old mill buildings. EAGLE FILE PHOTO GREAT BARRINGTON — Town officials still are pressing for utility companies to tell them what it would take to build a fiber-optic hub that would help bring broadband’s gold standard into a village whose vacant mills and other old buildings cry for reawakeni...

Gabrielle Senza checks in at the Great Barrington Fire Station to vote in the town elections Tuesday. BEN GARVER — THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE GREAT BARRINGTON â€” Garfield Reed beat incumbent Kate Burke by a 20-vote margin in a tight three-way contest for two Select Board seats that centered on the marijuana industry, as well as diversity at Town Hall. Eric Gabriel won the second vacant seat on the board with 649 votes. Reed received 619 votes, and Burke 599, according to unofficial results released by Town Clerk Jennifer Messina on Tuesday night. There w...

The state of disrepair of the former Housatonic School is one major issue that newly elected Great Barrington officials will have to grapple with.  EAGLE FILE PHOTO GREAT BARRINGTON — The only contested seats during town elections next week are those on the Select Board, and a newcomer with extensive banking and investment experience is the lone candidate on the ballot for Finance Committee. Town elections will take place from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the fire station and the Housatonic Community Center. Select Board incumbent Kate Burke, and newco...

  Today, NYC-based psychedelic pop-soul septet Melt released a new single, Hours. The ruminative ballad is the third offering from the band’s debut EP, set to be released next month. Available across all streaming platforms, the single captures the band’s sonic and lyrical maturity and is a welcome presentation of their impressive studio acumen. A balanced combination of fervent low end, cascading synth leads, and inquisitive guitar lines create Hours - a lover’s sojourn, explicated through melody. “We recorded this track a few days after I showed it to the band and I love that you...

Oregon newsrooms have partnered to share content to highlight the human toll of the pandemic. Our hope is this collaboration captures this historic nature of the COVID-19 crisis. UMATILLA INDIAN RESERVATION — A pickup truck rolled into the parking lot behind the Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center on the Umatilla Indian Reservation on a recent Monday afternoon. Nurse Rena Wickert grabbed a clipboard and three swabs to test each of the people in the vehicle for the coronavirus. After Wickert swabbed six nostrils, the truck’s driver waved goodbye and Wickert buzzed back into the clinic. Anothe...