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Williamstown ZBA Continues Marijuana Farm Petition to March MeetingBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
12:32PM / Friday, February 22, 2019 | |
Tim Duncan addresses the ZBA about his request to establish an art studio and gallery at his Cold Spring Road (Route 7) residence. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Zoning Board of Appeals on Thursday granted a special permit for a Cold Spring Road resident to operate an art studio and gallery at their residence. The board did not, however, take up a more contentious issue: the application for a special permit to grow marijuana on a Blair Road property. Only four members of the board could attend Thursday's monthly meeting. That gave the body a quorum, but it also meant that a successful petition would have needed a unanimous decision from the ZBA members 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock School Committee Educated About Baseball Program ChangeBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:15AM / Friday, February 22, 2019 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Mount Greylock Regional School's athletic director last week appeared before the school committee to explain a program change that has riled some seventh-grade parents at the middle-high school. Lindsey von Holtz laid out the reasoning behind a move announced in August to open the school's baseball program to students in eighth grade and up, rather than allowing seventh-graders, as was done the last few years. Like other schools that have middle schoolers in the same building with high school students, Mount Greylock is allowed to open athletic opportunities to the younger grades according to the rules of the Massachusetts 2 Comments
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 |  | Feeding the hungry
by buddy 04:12PM / Friday, February 21, 2014
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|  Williamstown Community Preschool Installs New Signage
by Billsville 02:46PM / Tuesday, February 26, 2013
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williamstown Community Preschool began sprucing up its new home by hiring local sign maker Lindsay Neathawk,
| Williamstown Youth Center Thanks Bedard Bros.
by Billsville 02:13PM / Friday, June 22, 2012
Bedard Brothers Chevrolet, through the Chevrolet Youth Soccer Program, has helped sponsor the Williamstown Youth Center's Soccer Program for the 2012 season. In addition to soccer equipment, this
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'Isn't It Romantic': It's to LaughBy Michael S. Goldberger, iBerkshires Film Critic
07:18PM / Thursday, February 21, 2019 | |
 First things first. Unlike the 1932 Rodgers and Hart classic song "Isn't It Romantic?" director Todd Strauss-Schulson's convivially entertaining romantic comedy, "Isn't It Romantic," forsakes the question mark at title's end. All of which is either a mental slip or intended to suggest a more demonstrative, rhetorical meaning. In other words, no question about it: It Is Romantic! In such case, an exclamation point would have been a more apt substitute for the question mark, and I would have been left without a pretentious, opening paragraph. To tarry further, as I'm prone to do when the film in question doesn't necessitate 0 Comments
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The Independent Investor: Economic Prosperity in the United StatesBy Bill Schmick,
05:01PM / Thursday, February 21, 2019 | |
 The stock market is once again approaching historical highs. Unemployment is at multi-year lows. Interest rates and inflation, if not at record lows, are close to it. The president claims we are enjoying the strongest economy in our nation's history. Is that true? The short answer, according to a recent study by Bloomberg, would be no, not even close. They went back over the course of the last 43 years and measured the nation's economy under three Democratic and four Republican presidents. They found that in all but one case both the economic and financial performance of the U.S. was better than it is now. Bloomberg used 14 different gauges to measure a wide range of 0 Comments
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Berkshires Beat: CATA Artists 'Making Waves' at Good Purpose Gallery| 04:12PM / Wednesday, February 20, 2019 | |
Mike Fazos's 'Sun Tornado' is part of the 'Making Waves' display at the Good Purpose Gallery in Lee. 'Making Waves' Community Access to the Arts presents "Making Waves," an exhibit of artwork by CATA artists with disabilities at the Good Purpose Gallery in Lee. The exhibit opens Feb. 27 and features paintings by CATA artists who use the innovative Artistic Realization Technologies (A.R.T.) technique to create their work. A free, public art opening will be held on Feb. 28 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. with many of the artists in attendance.
Artistic Realization Technologies is an adaptive painting technique developed by artist Tim Lefens that gives full
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Biz Briefs: Two Former Prosecutors Open Local Law Firm| 02:36PM / Wednesday, February 20, 2019 | |
 New law firm
Gregory Barry, left,. and Robert Kinzer have opened a new law firm in Pittsfield. Barry & Kinzer, LLP, a full-service law firm with more than 40 combined years of litigation experience, recently celebrated its opening in Pittsfield. The law firm was founded on Feb. 4, 2019, by Gregory M. Barry and Robert W. Kinzer, two former assistant district attorneys in the Berkshire District Attorney's Office. Their office is located at 152 North St., Suite 140, in the old Shipton Building in the heart of downtown Pittsfield. The law firm will be hosting an open house on Friday, Feb. 22, from 4 to 6 p.m. to celebrate its launch.
The firm is dedicated to representing
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Wintry Mix Could Slicken Roads Overnight Into Morning| 01:48PM / Wednesday, February 20, 2019 | |
 As if it's not already pretty darn icy out there, here comes another round of winter yuck.
The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory from 7 p.m. Wednesday to 10 a.m. Thursday. The advisory predicts "mixed accumulation" - up to 2 inches of snow and up to one-tenth of an inch of ice.
The commute home Wednesday should be fine but as darkness falls Wednesday night watch out for conditions to deteriorate, and Thursday morning's commute in to work could be messy, too. Thanksfully, with schools on vacation, there's no need to worry about school buses.
Temperatures should remain in the mid-20s overnight but warm into the low 30s by morning, causing
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The Right Insurance Can Meet Both Short- and Long-term Needs| 12:27PM / Wednesday, February 20, 2019 | |
 If you're going to achieve your important financial goals, you'll need to build an appropriate investment portfolio. But that's only part of the story – because you also need to protect what you have, what you earn and what you’d like to leave behind. That's why it's a good idea to become familiar with the various types of insurance and how they can address short- and long-term needs.
For starters, consider life insurance. You may have important long-term goals, such as leaving an inheritance for your family and providing resources for your favorite charities. You may be able to fulfill some of these through the death benefit on your policy.
You can also
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Mount Greylock Committee Finalizes Teacher Contracts, Talks Calendar ReorganizationBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:50AM / Wednesday, February 20, 2019 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee on Thursday approved a three-year contract with the district's teachers union. By a 6-0 vote, the committee voted to accept the terms of the contract that previously had been approved by the union, bringing to a close months of negotiation that included a brief work action by teachers at the start of the 2018-19 academic year. "I want to quickly say thank you to the members of the negotiating committee who are here, to [former Mount Greylock School Committee member] Chris Dodig, who was here for many months prior and to the union who worked through the not the simplest negotiation in the 0 Comments
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Farley-Bouvier Pushes Bill to Raise Tipped Workers Minimum WageStaff Reports,
06:53PM / Tuesday, February 19, 2019 | |
 BOSTON — State Rep. Tricia Farley-Bouvier is calling for the elimination of a lower wage for tipped workers. The Pittsfield Democrat joined other lawmakers and Restaurant Opportunities Center this past Wednesday at the State House to introduce a bill that will gradually raise the minimum wage for tipped workers until it matches the minimum wage for all other industries. "This bill will raise the minimum wage to the prevailing wage by 2027 in Massachusetts. In doing so, it would bring thousands of workers out of poverty, reduce sexual harassment in the workplace, and decrease the wage gap between male and female tipped workers," Farley-Bouvier said at the 2 Comments
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Mount Greylock Gets Access to School's AuditoriumBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:39PM / Tuesday, February 19, 2019 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Five months after it moved into the renovated Mount Greylock Regional School, the district has full access to the building. Mount Greylock Superintendent Kimberley Grady said Tuesday that the district has received a certificate of occupancy for the middle-high school, an approval that includes use of the school's auditorium. The auditorium, which along with the gym was one of two public spaces remaining from the old Mount Greylock, has been off-limits to the school because of construction delays. While the school opened for classes in September under a temporary certificate of occupancy, the auditorium remained closed. At last 2 Comments
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Williamstown Con Comm OKs Marijuana FarmBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
12:54PM / Tuesday, February 19, 2019 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Conservation Commission on Thursday approved plans for an outdoor marijuana plantation near the Green River. But one member of the panel abstained from the decision, citing a potential conflict between the production and sale of the drug and federal law. Unlike the recreational retail facility in the works on Main Street, the proposed pot plantation at 295 Blair Road is the first operation to come before the Con Comm. Member Philip McKnight, an attorney, questioned whether the town should play any role in permitting cannabis-related businesses. Even though Massachusetts voters decided in 2016 to decriminalize the drug, marijuana remains a 0 Comments
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