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Who's watching you drive through town? Concern over surveillance cameras crosses partisan divide (opens the original)
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Great Barrington is the only Berkshire County police department with its own automated license-plate readers, but other agencies can request searches of the data as questions grow over privacy, oversight and who can access it. When Great Barrington installed license plate-reading cameras that record me driving through town to get to a doctor who will give me a shot in my knee, I believe the town invaded my privacy. It turns out that Iâm not alone. Apparently, many Americans agree and are raisi
Who's watching you drive through town? Concern over surveillance cameras crosses partisan divide (opens the original)
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As debates over Flock cameras take off across the country, a new license plate reader in Great Barrington raises similar questions. When Great Barrington installed license plate-reading cameras that record me driving through town to get to a doctor who will give me a shot in my knee, I believe the town invaded my privacy. It turns out that I’m not alone. Apparently, many Americans agree and are raising a fuss. Great Barrington is the only Berkshire County police department with its own automated
They sang for the supper of those in need (opens the original)
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Itâs possible that the basement quarters of Berkshire Countyâs largest food pantry trembled Saturday night when a potpourri of music genres emanated from the Colonial Theater across the street. It was the two-and-a-half-hour Rock the Pantry concert. An almost full house of well-fed neighbors were putting something on the table for their food-deprived neighbors. The Pittsfield Community Food Pantry operates at the United Church of Christ, known by many as the new-ish name for former South Con
Book-banning is on the rise (opens the original)
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The flood of newly banned books is white-washing reading in school libraries, and PEN America â a nonprofit organization that keeps track â says the new focus from activists is on nonfiction, including books on history, health and general knowledge. Biographies and memoirs are among the key targets. PEN holds that banning books about real events or people is âan embrace of anti-intellectualism.â Itâs an attack on culture. In the school year of 2024-25, PEN America recorded 6,870 instan
Summerâs gone, along with southbound hummingbirds (opens the original)
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RICHMOND â I think theyâre gone. Itâs easy to wonder if, facing a long flight, a few might procrastinate and show up at my feeders later in the week. But like clockwork, the hummingbirds that spend their summer here vanish the first week in September, their GPS set for Mexico. Dependably, theyâll be back the first week of May. Ornithologists say their consistent schedule is governed by their biological clock and by the shortening of the day as September begins. Just as people pack snacks
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