Lenox News

A freshwater mussel that has wreaked economic havoc throughout the Great Lakes has been found for the first time in Massachusetts, and worried environmental officials are scrambling to contain the invasive species before it wipes out native marine life, clogs water intake pipes, and fouls drinking water supplies.

Invasive zebra mussels, which choke off food for fish and can clog machinery and pipes, have come to Massachusetts.

A student runaway from a private school for troubled youth in Lenox is accused of going on a 12-hour crime spree in Lee over the holiday weekend.

Rain didnt deter orchestra-goers from Tanglewood on Friday, the venues opening day.

Of all the historic houses in Berkshire County, the only one in which I feel the presence of non-ghostly inhabitants is the Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio in Lenox.

A lightening strike ignited a fire that heavily damaged the inside of a $1.5 million home in the Lenox Dale section of town late Wednesday afternoon, local fire officials said.

Shakespeare & Company reprises its electric, heady staging, with Jason Asprey leading as the melancholy one and Tina Packer playing his mother.

Literary pilgrims are like obsessed lovers: always hungry for more and better contact.

You may justly think of pauses when you think about the late playwright Harold Pinter, but I think of provocation.

Pictured from left: is Joe Elwell, Kevin Elwell, his father, Diana Elwell, his mother, and Ben Elwell, his brother.

The graduates of a former high school seminary now have a physical reminder of that institution to go with their personal memories.

Eighteen-year-old Mikel Blackman, a convicted sex offender from Colchester who has been attending a Massachusetts school for students with behavioral problems, was charged Monday with violating the conditions of his probation during a home visit this winter that lasted just three hours.

Residents will be able to drive to Sandy Beach this summer when it officially opens a week from today.

Adult beading class: earring clinic, learn basics to creating your own earrings, 6 to 8 p.m., 370 Pecks Road, Pittsfield, 442-9300. Norman Rockwell Museum "Model Citizens," find out what it was like to pose for Norman Rockwell, 2:30 p.m., Stockbridge.

Wilson E. Baer, salutatorian for the Class of 2009 at Lenox Memorial High School, admitted in his address to the audience at Tanglewood that initially, he had some concerns about being accepted when he first attended the school.

Some called it an oasis. Others called it a labor of love. But on a perfect, bright Sunday morning, the Housatonic River Walk along the W.E.B. Du Bois River Garden Park in Great Barrington was declared a National Recreation Trail.

The First Congregational Church of Stockbridge has voted to become an Open and Affirming Church, a designation that enables the church to welcome gay congregants and perform gay marriages.

The Berkshire Harvest Restaurant, a new eatery featuring local produce, is scheduled to open today, co-owner Robert Cohen said on Monday.

Drury's Nik Andrews held true to his entrance seed Saturday. The Blue Devil finished sixth in the boys' 400-meter run at the MIAA All-State Track and Field meet at Fitchburg State College.

Barbra Streisand has finished building her dream house and started to think about her life.