When it comes to the future of the dilapidated building that housed the former Housatonic School, “demolition is still a four-letter word.”

A committee is pushing for Great Barrington to once again solicit bids from qualified contractors or otherwise see to it that the former Housatonic School “become viable and serve as an anchor for the Housatonic village center and be useful to the Town of Great Barrington.”

Only one contractor bid on the project, and that bid was nearly quadruple the estimated cost.

GREAT BARRINGTON — Town officials still are pressing for utility companies to tell them what it would take to build a fiber-optic hub that wou…

GREAT BARRINGTON — Candidates for Select Board stepped through a mine-laden field of questions from voters Tuesday, including what some think …