By David Scribner July 5, 2011 When a political fray becomes nasty, petty, brutish and unkind – to rephrase Thomas Hobbes — the better part of valor, sometimes, is to withdraw gracefully from the field of battle. That is the…
Category: Great Barrington MA
Time to Take The Tourists
By Mickey Friedman July 3, 2011 Editor’s Note: We at Red Crow want to make it clear how much some of us like cats. And remind you of our Poetic License when we say there’s more than one way to…
O’Brien Ordered to Shut Down Roger Road Operation
By David Scribner June 29, 2011 GREAT BARRINGTON – Building Inspector Edwin May, with the newly energized backing of the Great Barrington Board of Selectmen, has ordered the controversial O’Brien construction and landscaping business situated in a residential zone off…
Pixley to VA Hospital
By David Scribner June 28, 2011 David A. Pixley, the Great Barrington resident who last week allegedly set fire to two downtown buildings and had prepared to set ablaze five others and three vehicles, will now be receiving treatment for…
Suspect Arraigned in GB Arson Case
by Red Crow News Staff June 23, 2011 David Pixley being arraigned Thursday afternoon, June 23, 2011 GREAT BARRINGTON — David Pixley, 62, of 20 Hollenbeck Ave., Great Barrington was charged today with 10 criminal counts — two of arson,…
Fire Behind Main Street, Great Barrington
GREAT BARRINGTON – One Main Street building, Barrington Outfitters, was set ablaze – and two others targeted –early Wednesday morning by what fire officials are describing as arson. At 2 a.m., a fire alarm in the vacant Cyril & Dane…
An End to Blandness in the Berkshires
By Bill Shein GREAT BARRINGTON – Finally! For those Berkshire-ites who find their food a bit bland, their mental clarity a bit fuzzy (see below), and have been unsure what to do about it, there is an exciting new development…
Denmark Meets Main Street: Something’s Rotten
Great Barrington Building Inspector Ed May – Photo © David Scribner As I sat there in the Great Barrington Selectmen’s meeting, I was thinking about once again falling down a rabbit hole. But instead of something from “Alice in Wonderland,”…
Local News: A Tree Farm, A Dump, & A Town Manager
GREAT BARRINGTON, MA It wasn’t what I had expected to hear. It wasn’t what I wanted to know. At a Memorial Day weekend picnic with friends from Great Barrington and beyond, Judith Kales said to me: “They started up again.…