State officials said Friday that they plan to break ground on a new life sciences research facility in the Berkshires this summer, five years after the project was first announced. The Berkshire Innovation Center has
A new long distance hiking trail may soon exist in the Berkshire Mountains of western Massachusetts. According to an article on BerkshireEagle.com, several groups in the the Berkshires have agreed to begin the first
Design development for Frank Gehry’s model railroad museum in rural New England is chugging along. The Extreme Model Railroad and Contemporary Architecture Museum aims to condense the wide world of architecture into a museum
Hyatt has big plans for its wellness brand, Miraval. The Arizona-based group was acquired by the hotel company in January of 2017, and its flagship Arizona property is often recognized as one of the
Kristen van Ginhoven is the Artistic Director of WAM Theatre, which she co-founded in 2010. Based in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, WAM Theatre is Where Arts and Activism Meet. WAM’s vision is to create opportunity
Great Barrington, a pretty town in the hilly Berkshires of Western Massachusetts, is a tad closer to Boston than it is to New York City, which is about 140 miles to the south. But
Ty Allan Jackson is a children’s book author, publisher, literacy advocate, two-time TEDx presenter and motivational speaker. Ty travels across the country empowering children of all ages about the joy and power of reading.
For every Millennial woman who wants to make a difference, the fast-growing world of social entrepreneurship presents exciting opportunities. In 2017, the women who decided to launch organizations to develop solutions to pressing social,
The state’s unemployment rate dropped slightly to 3.6 percent in November after it added an estimated 6,700 jobs during the month, according to the Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development. The rate
Elizabeth Banks doesn’t mince words. Why bother, when you’re trying to get things done? Sitting in her office, in a bungalow on the Universal Studios lot here, the platform heels she wore for a