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1.  It’s been an eventful week… first, Monument Mountain Regional High School has been troubled by rumors of a bomb threatp
https://theberkshireedge.com/rumored-bomb-threat-at-monument-unfounded-district-officials-say/

And the Middle School was subjected to incidents of anti-semitism

2.  In an extraordinary performance, Beth Robbins, joined by other actors including Alison Larkin, took the stage at Shakespeare & Company to read from Beth’s memoir “A Grief Sublime,’ about her life and the death of her partner Steve Sproutman Meyerowitz:
https://theberkshireedge.com/a-book-launch-sublime-large-community-outpouring-for-beth-robbins-new-memoir/
3.  It seems to happen every holiday season… a fire engulfs a residence. This time, one man died, his wife is in critical conditionhttps://theberkshireedge.com/one-dead-and-another-in-critical-condition-after-beech-tree-apartment-fire/

4.   In  Pittsfield, our correspondent Hannah Van Sickle writes, one man is making a difference for the icyt’s youth, Jerome Edgerton Jr.:
https://theberkshireedge.com/jerome-edgerton-jr-creating-a-wave-with-pittsfield-youth/

5.  Now here’s a quandary many communities would like to see themselves confronted with: What to do with extra cash! Great Barrington, if appears, is dealing with how to allocate the significant extra revenues it has received from the local tax on marijuana sales — more than $1 million so far:
https://theberkshireedge.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=95415

6. At Monument Mountain Regional High School it isn’t all about academics, SAT scores, or grades… an innovative program is putting students to work… called Pathways to Trades:https://theberkshireedge.com/everything-was-pointing-in-this-direction-pathways-to-the-trades-is-putting-students-to-work/

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