02/28/08
The last hurrah
Does the policy of charging high fees for publishing obituaries represent the death rattle of local newspapers?


07/05/06
Medical marijuana? Not on your life
A young man in the Berkshires relieves intense pain with marijuana but gets arrested for his troubles.


06/15/06
Parents to district attorney: Why?
A fanatical prosecutor put their son in jail for selling a joint to an undercover cop. The parents of 18-year-old Mitchell Lawrence try to understand why.


03/25/06
DA Capeless: Zealot or tough cop? You decide.
Berkshire County District Attorney David F. Capeless, unlike any other Massachusetts prosecutor, has a taste for being both prosecutor and judge, a fanatical devotion to mandatory sentences, and an unbalanced relish for inflicting prison terms on unsuspecting pot smokers.


02/20/06
American dream and a toxic legacy:
At the edge of the playground, on GE property, a 38-foot high, 5-acre toxic landfill is swelling like a dusty tumor.


01/02/06
Spice is nice; Crewdson shoots; alabaster and toes
Will gentrification spoil a New England mill town?

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