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Mar 05, 2023

How My Wife and I Took Back Our Sundays

(The Atlantic) - A few years ago, my wife, Angie, and I made a pact: Every Sunday, we swore to each other, we will abstain from work. And we kept our promise: On the second day of each weekend, we start our morning and end our night by bingeing TV in bed. In the middle of the day, we binge TV on the couch, taking breaks exclusively to nap or read. The door of our apartment is opened only for pizza to be slid inside. Chores go undone. Fitness is spurned. Job-related emails—or, God forbid, texts—are not read. When we feel the familiar anxiety creeping in and imagine our inboxes filling up or our muscles turning to jelly, we’re tempted to act—but we fight to stay still. Lazy Sunday is hardly a revolutionary idea. A weekly time of rest is, after all, an ancient staple of several religions.

Dream Away Lodge to Reopen in April with 'American Roadhouse' Cuisine and Live Music

(Berkshire Edge) BECKET, Mass. - Three years after its closing, the Dream Away Lodge is scheduled to reopen with new owners in April. The new owners are building on a theme of American Roadhouse. This bistro scale approach will emphasize quality, consistency, creative touches, seasonal ingredients, and a relaxed atmosphere. The Dream Away will also offer live music performances.

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Copake’s new North Star restaurant serves up seafood and creative New American cuisine (RI)

BiggDaddy’s to bring Philly cheesesteaks, Black-owned business, to MASS MoCA (Berkshire Eagle)

Adams Tavern and Inn, at the former Haflinger Haus, reopens with pub food menu (B Eagle)

13 must-stop places on the Capital Region taco trail including Hudson (ATU)

More restaurants are adding extra fees to your bill in a bid to close the long-standing gap between the take-home pay for those who serve food and those who prepare it (Boston Globe)

Don’t want to cook? You can still put together a fabulous dinner party (WSJ)

NEWS FROM THE BERKSHIRES

Co-owners Nick Keene and Jenny Rubin are a regular presence at The Barn (photo courtesy Egremont Barn)

The Egremont Barn — Where Music, Culture, and Community Thrive

(Berkshire Edge) SOUTH EGREMONT, Mass. - Jenny Rubin and Nick Keene met in New York City in 2015 through a dating site, two years after Keene’s family purchased the property that housed the Egremont Village Inn. Both NYC natives had extensive backgrounds in the entertainment industry (“restaurants, bars, and music venues,” per Rubin). A self-proclaimed, life-long “music fanatic,” Rubin says meeting Keene and everything that followed “seemed meant to be.” On the same property as the inn was an 1830s barn, which had rather famously been a roadhouse of sorts in the 1970s and ’80s in the form of Robbie Burns Pub—and which the Keenes intended to rebirth. As fate would have it, the couple was able to lean into their shared passions and experience in bringing this space back to life.

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Price Chopper threatens future of Great Barrington market if town doesn’t approve liquor license (B Edge)

$40M budget projected for Great Barrington in 2024 (WAMC)

Williamstown voters approve $22.5M plan to build new net-zero fire station (WAMC)

North Adams approves short-term rental bylaw (WAMC)

Flabbergasted Pittsfield city council rejects controversial ballot question about revising downtown bike lanes layout (WAMC)

Great Barrington libraries to abolish fines (Berkshire Edge)

Student injured in three-car accident at dangerous entrance to Monument Mountain High School (B Edge)

$75K GoFundMe campaign launched to rescue Camp Wagalot, canine boarding and day-camp facility in Stockbridge (B Edge)

NEWS FROM THE HUDSON VALLEY

Mayor Kamal Johnson in his Hudson office (photo Jammel Cutler/CGM)

Hudson Mayor Johnson Announces Reelection Bid, Does Not Rule Out Assembly Run

(HV36) HUDSON, N.Y. - Mayor Kamal Johnson, the city’s first elected Black mayor, is running for reelection to a third two-year term while keeping the door open to challenging fellow Democrat Assemblywoman Didi Barrett for the 106th District state Assembly seat next year.

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