Triplex Screens 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles'

03:49PM / Thursday, November 14, 2024Print Story | Email Story

GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — The Triplex Cinema announces a special members-only free screening of John Hughes' beloved film "Planes, Trains and Automobiles," to celebrate the first anniversary of the re-opening of the Triplex.

Tickets can be reserved in advance for the 7:00 pm screening on Nov. 20. Membership information can be found at the Triplex website.

According to a press release:

Released in 1987, "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" is a road trip comedy written, produced and directed by John Hughes and starring Steve Martin and John Candy. Martin plays an uptight marketing executive who, while traveling home to Chicago for the Thanksgiving holiday, meets Candy's character, a well-meaning but annoying traveling salesman. When their flight from New York to Chicago is diverted, they embark on a three-day odyssey of misadventure trying to reach Chicago.

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Great Barrington Fire, Police Respond to Chimney Fire

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
02:48PM / Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Fire Chief Scott Turner called for mutual aid as soon as he saw flames.

GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Firefighters made quick work of a chimney fire on Tuesday afternoon and two police officers aided the occupant in escaping the building.

Fire Chief Scott Turner said the blaze at 205 North St. was reported about 12:38 p.m.

"When I arrived on scene, we had a small amount of flames coming out of the eaves of the roof over by the chimney for the wood stove, and then we had light smoke conditions on the second floor," he said.

Police Officers Andres Huertas and Elias Casey were first on the scene and immediately entered the single-family home to find the occupant was on the second floor.

They helped her out of the building, Turner said, "they did a great job."

The chimney is a metal chimney and burn marks could been seen where it meets the eaves on the side of the building.

North Street is a narrow residential way and firetrucks from Alford, Egremont, Monterey, Richmond, Stockbridge and West Stockbridge were parked along nearby streets. Scene support was provided by police, Southern Berkshire Ambulance, and National Grid.

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