Austerlitz News

LONG BEFORE THE MAGIC mushrooms of the 1970s, a neighbor's Italian father-in-law was in the habit of collecting and eating wild mushrooms.

$21.95 The Waiting Game The women of Sana Krasikov's debut story collection make their way through their lives one year at a time.

AUSTERLITZ, N.Y. - The staircase looks innocent, three narrow steps up to a landing, turn left, 11 more steps up to the second floor of the sprawling white clapboard farmhouse called Steepletop.

The Taconic Hills Central School District Board of Education approved a resolution at a special meeting Wednesday night that "finalized the tax levy for the 2008-2009 school year," Tony Marchesano, director of ...

Steepletop, the poet's Austerlitz, N.Y., home where she died in 1950. Millay at her pool in an undated photo.

HERE I AM, battling my worst attack ever of Blueberry Fatigue Syndrome. This year's recipe contest at the Austerlitz Historical Society Blueberry Festival, organized by the ever-capable Vivian Wachsberger, drew ...

A 51-year-old New Jersey woman was killed when her car went off the road and struck a road sign at Exit B-3 on the Berkshire Spur of I-90 Friday morning.

The Columbia County Democratic Committee has unanimously endorsed Anne Rubin as the party's candidate 103rd Assembly District.

On Sunday, take a short hop across the state line to Columbia County to enjoy the Austerlitz Historical Society's ninth Annual Blueberry Festival.

The Columbia County Democratic Committee has unanimously endorsed Anne Rubin as the party's candidate 103rd Assembly District.

Christine Pedi sings And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going as Judy Garland, Joan Rivers, Ethel Merman, Katharine Hepburn, Julie Andrews, Carol Channing, and Bernadette Peters, and one impersonation is better than ...

I can tell you right now that four nights and parts of four days is not nearly enough time to see everything you want to see in Paris, but that's the amount of time we had and we tried to make the best of it.

On the kind of perfect spring day that should never be taken for granted, writer and theater critic Peter Bergman, publisher Lael Locke, and actor-educator Johnna Murray met over a cup of tea to discuss their ...

GROWING UP, Terry Trask remembers her father reading the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay to her.

The New York State Thruway Authority today announced that a steel removal for bridge replacement project near the Massachusetts State Line on the Berkshire Connector will require brief traffic stoppages on ...

The New York State Thruway Authority today announced that rock remediation will be required for a bridge project near the Massachusetts State Line on the Berkshire Connector. via New York State Thruway Authority

Artistic director Tom Detwiler has selected for the Ghent Playhouse's musical entree of the season, the fast-paced musical satire by Mark Houston and collaborators, "6 Women With Brain Death Or Expiring Minds ... via Berkshire Eagle

Art in a Land of Money By Alexander Osipovich Art Dubai is less provocative but better organized and more lavish than Russian art events. via The Moscow Times

“He hated the word 'pamper' almost as much as he hated the word 'indulgence,' which in turn was almost as much as he loathed the word 'treatment,' with its wretchedly inane pretension toward medicine.”

Arts & Ideas / on the page... Friday, March 21, 2008. Issue 3866. Page 105. Relative Truths By Saul Austerlitz In Edward Docx's second novel, "Pravda," being in a family often involves turning a blind eye to ... via The Moscow Times

“They each came up with such interesting interpretations as to how their characters got to where they are”

Playwright Jane Martin is best known for her provocative full-length plays "Keely and Du," "Jack and Jill" and the inside-theater comedy "Anton in Show Business." But Martin first came to national attention in ... via Berkshire Eagle