Date: June 10, 2020   The Great Barrington Police Department is conducting its annual campaign to enforce the Town’s Automobile Storage Bylaw.  Unregistered or dilapidated cars or boats left on property are in violation of this bylaw.  The town offers four ways to rectify the situation:   Properly register the vehicle or boat;   Screening […]

To the Community, Regarding Chief Farnsworth’s statement (found in the previous post), The Great Barrington Police Department was as early supporter of the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing. I attended a White House meeting in August 2016 when this initiative began. We continue today to have an ongoing group of Department members that […]

Police and authorities in Egremont and Hillsdale, N.Y. are working together on a joint investigation into an automobile theft in town where the suspect was later involved in two accidents in Egremont before finally crashing a third time in Hillsdale.   On Monday morning around 6 a.m. Egremont Police Officer Matthew O’Sullivan responded to a […]

On May 15 police received a call of a bicyclist riding in the middle of North Plain Road obstructing traffic around 3 p.m. Responding Officers Mitchell Hamilton and James Bragdon arrived to find several vehicles swerving around 36 year old Stanley Zalewski of 225 East Street. Vehicles were being forced into the opposite lane. He […]