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A New Hudson B & B, The Croff House, Opens This Weekend

Exactly 137 years ago this Friday, on April 10, 1872, the ribbon was cut on the first private gated community in the United States.  When, precisely, Willard Place in Hudson shed its gate is open to speculation but it is known that the street itself officially became city property sometime

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Elephant's Trunk Flea Market Opens for Its 33rd Season

What can you find at the Elephant's Trunk Flea Market? The better question is What can't you find? The Elephant's Trunk in New Milford, CT, has been going strong for 33 years, and it's low on the antiques food chain, a popular

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Best Laid Plans: Mount Merino Manor

Lodgings that bill themselves as bed-and-breakfasts tend to be hard by well-traveled roads, the better to catch the eye of passing tourists.  Another reason: less competition from big spenders; therefore, a better price.   To run a successful b & b, one must first find a house this

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Is The Mount Haunted?

The Mount, author Edith Wharton's splendid 1902 Lenox property, wasn't the first great estate built as a diversion from an unhappy marriage, nor will it be the last.  But haunted?  Apparently there's sufficient evidence to warrant an investigation by a t.v. show called

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Community: Saving Chatham's Crandell Theatre

Concerned Chatham citizens met at the Spencertown home of John and Paige Orloff (our recipe maven) on Saturday, March 21, to discuss the future of the town's 83-year-old Crandell Theatre, the only movie house in Columbia County outside the city of Hudson.  Chatham Film Club board

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The 'It' Boy: Emeric Harney Brings People Together

Last Sunday night, on the eve of his 22nd birthday, Emeric Harney who lives in Lakeville, CT, and works in Millerton, NY, hosted a party in the border town of West Stockbridge, MA.  "I wanted to bring together guys from three states,” says Emeric, who organized the gay "

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Dan's Diary: Shalom, Ellen Carton!

You probably don't too know much about the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center in Falls Village, which might be described as a kosher Kripalu or an Omega for progressive Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Renewal Jews. But you'll probably be hearing more about Isabella Freedman--whose pickles

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Dan's Diary: Gillibrand Fights for Farmers and Kids

My friend Lygeia Grace, the senior food editor of Real Simple who is a regular at the Otis Farmer's Market during her summer weekends in the Berkshires, was sent a copy of this letter co-written by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (with State Senator Darrel J. Aubertine) to the

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Milestones: We're Celebrating Our First Anniversary

This has been an exciting, exhausting, entertaining and educational year for us. We have worked to unite the residents of Berkshire, Columbia, Dutchess and Litchfield counties—a tri-state community rich in culture, natural beauty and smart, interesting people. More than anything, we want to encourage local exploration. We are

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Dan's Diary: Lobbying for Trader Joe's

A few weeks ago, it was the residents of Sharon and the neighboring towns of Amenia, Millerton and Salisbury, who had started a letter-writing campaign to Trader Joe's, suggesting they open in the old Trotta's supermarket. Now, Cultural Pittsfield is using Facebook to wage a

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Camp Unleashed: 'Cause Dogs Get SAD Too

Help your best buddy beat the winter blahs with Camp Unleashed's Winter-Wonderland Weekend, February 20 -22, a rural retreat for dogs and their owners (or, as the powers that be at Camp Unleashed refer to those who feed, walk, bathe, and take dogs to the vet, "

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Dan’s Diary: Yes, the New Yorker

What are the chances that you would come across three residents of our region within a six-page stretch of a single issue of The New Yorker? In the January 26 issue, there is commodities trader Jim Sinclair of Sharon, CT, quoted in Ben McGrath's story on doomsayers,

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