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Real Estate

Grand Victorian In Great Barrington

Built in 1900, this Great Barrington home has all the features you want in a Victorian: gleaming wood floors, sunlit rooms, high ceilings and built-ins. The house has a spacious kitchen, dining room, living room and a den for additional family space. The four-bedroom, two-bathroom home (which

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Style

Nothing Says I Love You Like Artisanal Jewelry

By Robert Burke WarrrenIt’s become a mantra of sorts: Shop Local. Buy Local. Fortunately, our local is no yokel, as a look at some of the artisan jewelers in the Rural Intelligence area can attest. We’d never turn our noses up at Tiffany & Co., of course, but

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Community

10X10 Upstreet Arts Festival Returns For Charming Third Year

By Lisa GreenThe 10x10 Upstreet Arts Festival returns to Pittsfield for its third year, Feb. 13-24, and while in some cases the third time’s the charm, 10x10 seems to have been charmed from the get go. It began with a premise nobody could argue with: People need get

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Food

Dining: At Pizzeria Posto, The Pie's The Thing

By Alice McGowan It takes a certain amount of guts for a restaurant to offer a limited menu, even if it's a pizzeria. Especially when it’s a pizzeria located in a region that’s nothing if not rich with New York pizza experts hungry for a pie

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Food

Recipe: Puerco Pibil

This week's recipe is from Berkshire-based duo The Butcher & The Baker. The Butcher is Jake, a nose-to-tail butcher/artist, who loves to cook and grew up in the woody hills of Western Massachusetts where his passion for local, fresh food was first instilled in

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Parties

Columbia-Greene Hospital Foundation Winter Blast

Jamie Larson reports from Hudson.The Columbia-Greene Hospital Foundation held its Winter Blast Saturday night at Helsinki Hudson. The diverse group of Foundation supporters packed the spacious club and both floors of the restaurant. While the party was indeed a blast, rocking well into the night with the help

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Community

The Rural We: Kristen van Ginhoven

When it comes to things she loves about our neck of the woods, Kristen van Ginhoven has a long list. The Artistic Director of WAM Theatre, Kristen very much enjoys all the cultural opportunities our region provides us, but she also spends a significant amount of time outdoors. Here she

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Real Estate

Exceptionally Renovated

This home is over 100 years old, but so beautifully updated that you really can't tell. Everything in the home has been masterfully preserved with renovations from 2009 and 2012. The large four-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom home has a living room with a full wall

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Real Estate

Updated In The Hills

Tucked away in bucolic Bridgewater, this private oasis offers more than 16 acres of rolling meadows and views of the Litchfield hills. The single-level home has generously-sized rooms with Brazilian cherry floors throughout. Built in 1944, the three-bedroom, one-and-a-half bathroom home has an updated

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Real Estate

Details, Details

Hudson is home to this restored stick style Victorian still bearing the original decorative detailing from the late 1800s, inside and out. The three-bedroom, two-and-a-half bathroom city house is distinct with a second floor three-bay squared oriel window, doors and windows with Eastlake trim, original

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Real Estate

Greek Revival Jewel

From the outside, this New Marlborough property, built in 1850, has all the classic details of a Greek Revival (symmetrical shape, narrow windows and simple moldings) but the interior is chic and modern. Completely renovated over the last few years, it has a big, open living room with a pellet

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Community

Jumpfest Weekend Leaps Into New Activities

By Sarah Ellen Rindsberg Photo by Kathleen Doyle. Get your hand and foot warmers out; now you’re all set to join the thousands of spectators at the annual Jumpfest Weekend at the Satre Hill Ski Jumps in Salisbury on February 7-9. The weekend has been a highlight of

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