Category: Roger Road

Ed May Calls Third Strike on Gary O’Brien’s Roger Road

By David Scribner July 27, 2011 GREAT BARRINGTON – For the third time in the last seven months, Gary O’Brien’s landscaping and construction operation on Roger Road has been found to be in violation of the town’s residential zoning bylaws…

O’Brien Ordered to Shut Down Roger Road Operation

By David Scribner June 29, 2011 GREAT BARRINGTON – Building Inspector Edwin May, with the newly energized backing of the Great Barrington Board of Selectmen, has ordered the controversial O’Brien construction and landscaping business situated in a residential zone off…

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.…