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Real Estate

Home Sweet Bungalow

Outside, this Arts and Crafts bungalow looks modest but inside actually packs quite the spacious punch with four bedrooms and many large living spaces. Located in Copake only 15 minutes from Great Barrington, it has four bedrooms, two bathrooms, dining room, living room, den/office and a bright kitchen. The

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Real Estate

Acres Await

There's no mule, but 40 acres do come with the bungalow located in New Marlborough. The property is ready for moving in and includes three bedrooms, two bathrooms, living room with huge stone fireplace and a dining area surrounded by windows so the sunset can be part of

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Real Estate

The City Bungalow

If all the recent press about Hudson hasn't got you packing yet, maybe this arts and crafts bungalow will. Like the town, it is distinctively old fashioned, with many 1920s details, but stylishly renovated with open living and dining areas, original doors and light fixtures, well-preserved woodwork,

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Real Estate

On The Otis Waterfront

Be prepared for visitors with this year-round lake cottage on the Otis Reservoir that has been lovingly cared for through the years. Located in a quiet bay on the reservoir, the home has ample space with three bedrooms, two bathrooms, large living and dining room and a spacious screened-

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Community

The Rural We: Colin Chambers

Colin Chambers, an advertising executive from New York, first came to the Northwest Corner of Connecticut because one of his accounts was Lime Rock Park. Like so many of us, he fell in love with the area, and when the economy took that royal dip a few years ago, he

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Arts

Darlingside Rising: Indie Folk Quartet Brings Harmony to Pittsfield

By Robert Burke Warren When Rural Intelligence last spoke to Massachusetts-based indie folk band Darlingside, they were upstarts who’d charmed noted producer Nate Kunkel (Maroon 5, James Taylor) into flying from L.A. to produce their debut CD, Pilot Machines, and were thrilled to be opening for The

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Food

Shunpike Dairy: Milk So Fresh, You Pour It Yourself

By Don Rosendale Every day or so, Kelly Fierrevante drives to the Shunpike Dairy in Millbrook to fill a container of raw milk for her three sons. She says she makes the trip, and pays more than what she might for a quart of milk in the supermarket, not only

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Parties

The "Nude" Attitude Bares A Look At Sohn Fine Art

Mark Williams reports from Stockbridge. Rain was pouring, but the diminutive Sohn Fine Art Gallery in Stockbridge was crowded with people who love photography on Saturday, January 11. The current exhibition, Nude, features photography and mixed media by John Atchley, Peggy Braun, John Clarke, Greg Gorman, Eric Korenman, Hildy Kronen,

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Style

It’s a Bird. It’s a Plane. It’s Real Estate’s Best Friend.

By Lisa Green Residents of Richmond may have spotted an unidentified flying object hovering just a hundred feet or so above the Berkshire Equestrian Center and The Inn at Richmond earlier this week. It wasn’t a UFO from some distant planet, but it was a newcomer to the Berkshires:

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Community

Inside Rubi's: Living The Hipster Barista Fantasy

Last winter, I had a bad case of yearning to be young. I was a middle-aged guy seeking a short cut back to the future. Inspired partly by a book called How Starbucks Changed My Life, I set out to become a barista, a hipster archetype that did not

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Food

Recipe: Kohlrabi Fries

Berkshire native Alana Chernila, mother of two, and author of the cookbook, The Homemade Pantry: 101 Foods You Can Stop Buying & Start Making (Clarkson Potter), dispenses change and cooking ideas to readers and friends. She shares her peak-of-the-season recipes with Rural Intelligence to help us make

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Parties

Blue Plate Bash for Columbia-Greene Humane Society

Jamie Larson reports from Chatham. It’s amazing to think that Saturday marked the 11th annual Columbia-Greene Humane Society Benefit hosted by the Blue Plate restaurant. Equally as amazing as the event, which raises thousands for the Humane Society each year through donations and a silent auction, was the

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