February 11, 2020 By Mickey Friedman Deja review. Last time, while the Massachusetts School Building Authority (MSBA) endorsed the School Committee’s proposal to build a fifty plus million dollar high school, the voters of Great Barrington didn’t. This time MSBA…
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Mel Multiplied
Mickey Friedman November 7, 2019 I do Thursday. One of a team picking up donated food from Fuel, Big Y, Guido’s, and Great Barrington Bagel for People’s Pantry weekly food distribution. Early on it was Mel Greenberg, sometimes Phyllis Weiss,…
Light The Way
Mickey Friedman September 12, 2019 Gillian, hit by a car, died in the crosswalk in Sheffield. Cathy was seriously injured when she was hit by a car in the crosswalk in Great Barrington. Friends. Most recently a young skateboarder luckily…
Perseverance, Pot, and Parking
March 18, 2019 By Mickey Friedman In the hope that perseverance furthers, again. I live in an apartment in downtown Great Barrington. There’s a zoning bylaw that exempts landlords from having to provide parking for their tenants. And because we…
Hope Hall
January 17, 2019 Mickey Friedman Tis the season we count our blessings. I’m most grateful for “Artworks” and “Hope Hall.” Because here in Great Barrington wishes really are horses, and we have a stampede. A veritable GB Jamboree. We best…
Community
I received a certificate in 1981 from Monterey Grange #291 for “efforts to instill cooperation and positive purpose in our community.” Of course, no one in my Bronx neighborhood belonged to a Grange. None of us made it past the…
The Best Baked Town in America
When it comes to statues, W.E.B. DuBois could use some company. If you’ve actually read him, you know his lifelong concern with racism, social and economic oppression, his genius, often made him impatient, not the most mellow of men. How…
The Right Thing
By Mickey Friedman January 12, 2018 We’re beginning to hear yet another version of The Blame The Victim Song that seems to comfort so many who have pledged to dismantle the few programs that still provide care and offer some…
Let’s Park
By Mickey Friedman August 7, 2017 Margaret came to Fuel to talk about my last column about Great Barrington. She wanted to know more about how I would solve the problems. So let me first suggest a solution to the…
They Come and Go
By Mickey Friedman July 24, 2017 Friends say they increasingly avoid Great Barrington. There’s less and less for them here. Losing Martin’s reminds me when folks gathered there, at Melvin’s, or ordered breakfast from Ruth at The Cricket. Once Frankie…
RIP – Solutions
February 22, 2017 By Mickey Friedman So the Community Development Corporation of South Berkshire (CDCSB) purchased the PCP and dioxin contaminated former home of New England Log Homes at 100 Bridge Street in Great Barrington committed to create a mix…
Under The Influence
By Mickey Friedman October 22, 2016 We rip ourselves apart. White, black, born again or unenrolled, native born or newly arrived, we tear at each other with ever-increasing fury. That we are all flawed and prone to mess up seems…