For Stockbridge, this is the town's second brush with dumping fame. The first: Arlo Guthrie's illegal disposal of trash in 1965 earned him fame and fortune in the song ''Alice's Restaurant.''
Reached by telephone, Guthrie responded: ''Don't be too hard on dumps. Garbage has been good to me. And besides, I paid the $65 fine and picked up my trash. I think the Mass. Pike's looking at a bigger job.''