“Of course we didn’t have a television there, but we had a radio and a newsflash came across the radio. “I was at work when it happened,” Bill said. “Experts say Mideast talks already in doubt,” read another. “Pittsfield’s Postmaster transferred,” read one. If he’d picked up a copy of the Berkshire Eagle that morning, Bill would’ve seen headlines that didn’t seem all that out of the ordinary. Bill’s plant, now known as Onyx Specialty Papers and the last mill in the area, sits on the Housatonic River, which winds its way south from there nearly 150 miles to Long Island Sound. Tucked into the southwest corner of Massachusetts, not far from the New York and Connecticut borders, the area around Great Barrington, where Bill has lived his entire 67 years, was one of the centers of paper production in the country until they closed nearly all the plants. ![]() ![]() He’d gotten up early that morning to go to work at the paper mill like any other day.
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