Category: Great Barrington Town Manager

I Know Defensive

By Mickey Friedman May 22, 2015 I’ve been lucky enough to have loved and been loved, in the short term at least, by a small gaggle of therapists. Of the Freudian, Jungian, Family, and Psychosynthesist persuasions, plus a Hungarian Jewish…

Burning issue: The firehouse sale

By David Scribner December 6, 2013 The firehouse, the bloody old Castle Street firehouse in Great Barrington.  And the town’s 21-month struggle to sell the 120-year-old historic structure. Aren’t you just sick and tired of this story? It’s like the…

The Best Town Manager We Ever Had

October 22, 2012 By Mickey Friedman Like icebergs, only a small portion of what goes on in a small town is visible. So much of what really happens, happens beneath the surface. The Great Barrington Selectboard finally acted on what…

Denmark Meets Main Street: Something’s Rotten

Great Barrington Building Inspector Ed May – Photo © David Scribner As I sat there in the Great Barrington Selectmen’s meeting, I was thinking about once again falling down a rabbit hole. But instead of something from “Alice in Wonderland,”…

Local News: A Tree Farm, A Dump, & A Town Manager

GREAT BARRINGTON, MA It wasn’t what I had expected to hear. It wasn’t what I wanted to know. At a Memorial Day weekend picnic with friends from Great Barrington and beyond, Judith Kales said to me: “They started up again.…