Housatonic News

A western Massachusetts native was arrested on Wednesday for drunken driving, his fourth offense, police said.

An agreement has been reached between a local immigrant support network and the town, making the nonprofit a short-term tenant of a vacant school in exchange for the training of town employees.

Connecticut state police say a body has been found in the Housatonic River is a teen who has been missing for a week.

State police say they're waiting for arrival of the medical examiner after a body was found in the Housatonic River in Salisbury this morning.

Members of the community will be allowed to tour the former Housatonic Elementary School today from 6 to 8 p.m. The town is opening the school with the intention of gathering public input for the future use of the facility, according to Town Manager Kevin O'Donnell. The Berkshire Hills Regional School District turned the school back to the town ...

General Electric and the U-S Environmental Protection Agency are negotiating a plan to clean up PCBs from the Housatonic River south of Pittsfield Massachusetts.

The search for a Salisbury area teen feared drowned is expected to resume at daybreak Thursday.

FALLS VILLAGE a ' State police have called off search efforts for a boy missing since Tuesday afternoon, June 16, by the Great Falls of the Housatonic River.

Searchers worked through the afternoon into the evening in Salisbury after a teenager went missing while swimming in the Housatonic River.  State police say four teenagers were swimming when they encountered fast-moving water and ran into trouble.  Three were stranded and one went under and did not resurface.

Libraries, said William Shakespeare, "are the books, the arts, the academes, that show, contain and nourish all the world." But some residents of Housatonic, the tiny village north of the Town of Great Barrington that is a part of the township but in some ways perhaps apart from it, fear changes to their little community Ramsdell Library.

Holyoke, Massachusetts Hazen Paper Company is pleased to announce Chain of Custody tri-certification. The company is now able to supply converted paper and paperboards that are Forest Stewardship Council Certified, Sustainable Forestry Initiative Certified, and/or Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes Certified.

Closer to its sparse beginnings in Central Berkshire than its more momentous mingling with Long Island Sound at Milford Point, the 149 mile Housatonic has attracted me and many others by its quiet meanderings.

Amid the controversy surrounding a looming cleanup decision for the Housatonic River, environmental regulators will conduct a tour of the first two miles cleaned under the massive PCB settlement.

A recount for the town moderator's race between the incumbent and a resident whose address is a town-owned park will take place Thursday.

The Selectmen have set a date and time for an open house to discuss the future of the former Housatonic School: Thursday, June 18 from 6 to 8 p.m. The town will soon be sending out a Request For Proposal to firms interested in developing the building, which formerly housed the Housatonic Elementary School.

A group of more than two dozen supporters of the Housatonic River took the first step Thursday night in forming a stewardship committee dedicated to building off a new environmental designation.

1807: Silas Pepoon purchases the establishment from Anna Bingham, now known as the Widow Bingham, for $10,000. 1812: Barnabas Adams of Lee purchases the inn "and other land" for $556 at a sheriff's auction.

The longest Charles Spirydowksi has ever ridden a bicycle was two to three miles with his daughter.

The Housatonic Railroad Co. has plans to expand the construction and demolition debris transfer station on its rail line in the Hawleyville section of town from its current limit of 450 tons a day to a maximum of 2,000 tons a day.

A three-way race for two slots on the Board of Selectmen is the lone contested race at this year's annual town election.