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AUDIO: What's next for the nonprofit Triplex Cinema in Great Barrington?
Listen now (60 mins) | An interview with Nicki Wilson and Ben Elliott about how a community organized to save a cherished movie house and plan its…
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Bill Shein
July 2023
AUDIO: Bob Jones on plans for a PCB dump in Lee, Massachusetts
Listen now (51 mins) | The chair of Lee's Select Board wants a more comprehensive Housatonic River cleanup and reconsideration of a planned PCB disposal…
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Bill Shein
AUDIO: A housing discussion with Patrick White
The recently re-elected Stockbridge Select Board member on housing ideas, healthy discussion, and maintaining a "well-rounded community."
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Bill Shein
June 2023
Land Court case against Great Barrington and its airport is withdrawn
A few questions remain, but the airport now has some legal protection against neighbors' complaints that it has sought since 2017.
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Bill Shein
May 2023
ROUGH DRAFT: Quick hits of local housing news from a reporter's notebook
The Marble Block has been sold, but not to an affordable-housing organization, and other tidbits from a larger Argus story-in-progress.
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Bill Shein
THE AIRPORT (Part Eight): The arc of Great Barrington’s zoning history is long. With respect to the airport, which way does it bend?
In the final installment of THE AIRPORT, a detailed history of Great Barrington’s zoning bylaw and its role in the past, present, and still unknown…
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Bill Shein
April 2023
THE AIRPORT (Part Seven): Flight lessons, aviation careers, and questions about safety are all part of the conversation
The Great Barrington Airport offers lessons to those interested in aviation as a hobby and, in some cases, a career with the airlines. Some neighbors…
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Bill Shein
THE AIRPORT (Part Six): A noisy debate about more than noise
The debate over Great Barrington Airport's activity level and the noise and disturbance it produces has been contentious for decades. Better information…
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Bill Shein
March 2023
THE AIRPORT (Part Five): Helicopter air-ambulance flights are fast, vital, and expensive. How do they work?
According to Fairview Hospital officials, each year 15 emergency air-ambulance flights lift off from Great Barrington Airport to rush Fairview patients…
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Bill Shein
THE AIRPORT (Part Four): Atop a vital aquifer, the airport’s environmental compliance has been spotty. Who’s been watching?
The airport sits atop the only aquifer that supplies much of Great Barrington’s water. It's in a zoning district with strict water-protection rules. Is…
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Bill Shein
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February 2023
THE AIRPORT (Part Three): How busy is Great Barrington Airport?
With its level of operations at issue in court and in front of town boards, why has there been so little effort to document what's actually happening at…
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Bill Shein
THE AIRPORT (Part Two): Rick Solan’s story begins with Robert Wheeler’s in 1929
The complicated present of the Great Barrington Airport is deeply rooted in its equally complicated past.
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Bill Shein
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