In this issue: A report on  the highly successful re-opening of Mixed Company, with four one-act plays by it co-founder Joan Ackerman.

Also: A celebration of the formation of a militia, 230-strong, which assembled on the New Marlborough Village Green 250 years ago and then walked across the state to join Revolutionary War forces near Boston;  a report on the Annual Town Meeting; the plans of  New Marlborough high-school graduates; the art of Barbara Crocker; and the mystery, solved, of a lone burial site on North Road.