Month: February 2012

The Rick Sanitorium

February 26, 2012 By Mickey Friedman I’ve been spending time at the Rick Sanitorium. There, I learned it’s the values. It’s all about the values. You won’t last long at the Sanitorium if you don’t have the right values. Granted,…

It’s Not Me; It’s My Wife

February 12, 2012 By David Scribner HOUSATONIC, MA – Like everyone else, I was surprised to learn that Sandra Muss, a painter and wife of Stephen Muss, the Florida-based developer and would-be savior of Housatonic, was buying the Barbieri mill…

Housatonic Has A Pulse

February 10, 2012 By Mickey Friedman With all the horrendous things adults do to children, from forcing them to fight and kill in Sierra Leone, making them make soccer balls for pennies in Pakistan, abusing them physically and emotionally, there…

Small Schools

By Mickey Friedman February 4, 2012 No kids, a different district, so I am just an interested bystander in the raging debate about the small schools of Monterey, Egremont and New Marlborough. Having taught I have a continuing interest in…