In this issue: New Marlborough’s own Leslie Miller and Sherri Gorelick spearhead a massive pie-baking effort, resulting in a delicious Thanksgiving distribution at The Peoples Pantry in Great Barrington.

Also: In additional baking news, Sarah Reynolds North launches her Found Bread bakery in Mill River and Marjorie and Barry Shapiro offer a recipe for scones; there’s an end-of-year pictorial from the Land Trust; information on two Meeting House Winter Concerts; an In the Beginning article by John Rooney from 2003; a remembrance of a childhood in Southfield by Janice Stiles; another installment of The Ghosts Among Us - stories of bygone houses and their occupants in New Marlborough; a report on the very successful NMC Holiday Fair; another wonderful illustration by Shawn Fields; lots of neighbors to report on - both human and animal, and, as always, the news from our Town Boards and Committees.