From the Gazebo

Sheela sits down with Yes and Thinking's Chris Meador, local AI consultant, for a wide-ranging conversation about the most controversial technology of the 21st century, and comes out of it feeling, well, pretty good about it. Episode brought to you by Great Barrington Public Theater's new play iBoss, by Thomas Kee, opening July 23. Get full access to The Village Green News at thevillagegreennews.s...

Show Notes: Some of the venues we mention in our conversation. COMMUNITY Great Barrington Car Show, this year on Thurs, August 6th Guilder Pond, Mount Everett Alford Springs, BNRC CULTURAL Great Barrington Public Theater Chesterwood Berkshire Theatre Group: BTG Plays Summer Shakespeare and Company: Riotous Youth Summer Camp The Mount Bidwell House, in Monterey FOOD Southfield Store Bistro Box Yumm...

This week’s episode features local independent journalist, philatelist (you’ll have to listen to find out what that means), muckraker and editor of Reason Gone Mad , Bill Shein. He talked to the Postmaster General at a recent stamp convention, and he gets in the weeds on his latest reporting on the complicated history of 343 Main Street in Great Barrington and its adjacent plot of land, which now...

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Welcome to mushroom week at From the Gazebo, where the morels are having an excellent year. This week on From the Gazebo Sheela and Erik Also discuss what happened during the six + hours of Great Barrington’s 2026 town meeting, and welcome their first guest, local mycologist John Wheeler, who answers your mushroom questions. SHOW NOTES TOWN OF GREAT BARRINGTON’S INFORMATION ABOUT THE RESIDENTIAL T...

Just 2 episodes in, we’ve reached 900 downloads. We’ve been having so much fun we’re taking From the Gazebo (FTG) to twice-monthly episodes, and in this, our 3rd episode, Erik and I talk amongst about ourselves about our Village Green stats, my recent story on the state of cannabis and give a preview on the subject of an upcoming episode on birds and birding. SHOWNOTES From the Gazebo’s mentions a...

The Village Green News is supported by paid subscribers. Please become a paid subscriber to keep this local podcast going and please share it with your people. Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to never miss an episode. * In this week’s episode Erik and Sheela discuss some bits of news from South Berkshire county and whether or not it makes sense to let ticks and bears keep you out...

From the Gazebo is the podcast of the Village Green News. Each month hosts Sheela Clary and Erik Bruun -- and/or their guests -- will talk about issues of interest and concern to South Berkshire County, Massachusetts. In this, our first episode, Sheela Clary and Erik Bruun talk about the state of vultures, ice cream and disagreement in Great Barrington, among other things. Referenced: So Co Creame...