The Berkshire Edge On-Air - Wednesday December 30, 2020

The Berkshire Edge LLC is a locally owned, regional publication. Our goal is to provide – regularly and in depth – content that truly reflects the life, interests and aspirations of this unusually rich and vibrant community.

Guided by respected journalistic standards, the principle of fairness, the quest for truth, a commitment to social, economic and environmental justice, and an abiding admiration for the independent spirit of the Berkshires, The Berkshire Edge offers in-depth local news reports and features, perspectives on the arts, wide-ranging commentary, and a comprehensive calendar of events – all written, illustrated, and, in some cases performed, with wit, intelligence, insight and humor.

1. Great Barrington firefighters, joined by mutual aid from surrounding towns, subdued a blaze at a historic structure on the Aston Magna estate in Great Barrington Tuesday morning.Luckily, the occupants were able to evacuate:https://theberkshireedge.com/joined-by-neighboring-departments-great-barrington-firefighters-contain-fire-at-historic-berkshire-heights-estate/

2.  Now, quite the opposite from homes on fire is our report of a new short-term rental market for “shared estates” in the Berkshires;
https://theberkshireedge.com/crowd-funded-shared-estates-establishes-itself-in-berkshires-short-term-rental-market/

3.  Well you may not be able to head to Symphony Hall or the Linde Center at Tanglewood to hear the Boston Pops holiday concerts, but you can watch them via streaming —and we need some cheer this season:https://theberkshireedge.com/americas-keeper-of-christmas-the-boston-pops-orchestra-makes-merry-through-jan-9/

4. We have to come to the season of year-end reviews. In the first of several we’ll be running between now and the New Year, attorney Charles Ferris has collected a list of highlights and lowlights of 2020 of the judicial system:
https://theberkshireedge.com/2020-highlights-lowlights-of-american-judicial-system/
5. Speaking of the New Year columnist Carole Owens sifted through her considerable Berkshire archives to explain how Berkshire residents of yore (yore is an obscure village in the Berkshires, just outside Stockbridge), celebrated the New Year:
https://theberkshireedge.com/connections-new-old-ways-to-celebrate-the-new-year/

6.  And in spite of the pandemic entrepreneurs are busily creating opportunities to take sustain the abundance of Berkshire landmarks, through what is called “Shared Estates”: 
https://theberkshireedge.com/crowd-funded-shared-estates-establishes-itself-in-berkshires-short-term-rental-market/