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  1. If there were to be any encouraging news during the pandemic-driven economic downturn in the Berkshires, the ongoing redevelopment of the Eagle Mill site in Lee would have been the candidate but now even that $40 million project is in jeopardy:https://theberkshireedge.com/pandemic-economy-forces-scaling-down-of-transformative-eagle-mill-project/

  2. On Memorial Day we recalled the 2005 tornado that ripped through the Great Barrington Fairgrounds… and the fairgrounds now lie rehabilitated but dormant, due to the pandemic tornado: https://theberkshireedge.com/remembering-the-great-great-barrington-tornado-25-years-later/

  3. Historian Bernard Drew has written a two-part account of the notorious members of the Berkshire 49th regiment in the Civil War… who returned home to rob a bank — unsuccessfully: https://theberkshireedge.com/part-ii-the-perilous-lives-of-great-barringtons-49th-regiment-volunteers-frederick-deland-and-the-bungling-bank-robbers/

  4. Among the victims of the pandemic is Kripalu, the yoga retreat center in Stockbridge… It is closing, laying off 450 workers:https://theberkshireedge.com/yoga-retreat-center-kripalu-closes-for-rest-of-year-lays-off-more-than-450-workers/

  5. We are into Chapter 47 of Carolyn Newberger’s account of living in the forests of Lenox. It was bound to happen: the bears arrived. https://theberkshireedge.com/illuminating-the-hidden-forest-chapter-47-balancing-bears-and-ourselves/

  6. And finally, J. Peter Bergman, our theatre critic and a member of the Berkshire Theatre Critics Association, laments the stages gone dark this summer:https://theberkshireedge.com/a-lamentation-of-arts/

7… This just in as I was typing this … the Connecticut Supreme Court has upheld a planning and zoning ordinance, assuring that the Sunday chamber concerts at Music Mountain will continue: (Falls Village, CT) The Music Mountain Board of Directors is pleased with the decision of the Connecticut Supreme Court that will continue the prohibition on Sunday racing at nearby Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, CT. In its ruling in Lime Rock Park, LLC v. Planning and Zoning Commission of the Town of Salisbury, handed down on May 22, 2020, the co

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