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Clark Art Celebrates Valentine's Day| 08:24AM / Tuesday, February 10, 2026 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, Feb. 14, the Clark Art Institute offers special activities in celebration of Valentine's Day. Visitors are welcome to visit the galleries to find all the forms of love in the permanent collection—from tender brushstrokes to flirtatious figures. Head to the Museum Pavilion to write a note about the artwork that pulls at your heartstrings and share it on our "art lovers' response wall," where notes from others will also be on view. Then, at 1 pm, enjoy a love-inspired gallery tour of the Clark's collection led by a Clark educator. The tour meets in the Museum Pavilion. Free. Tour capacity is limited. Pick up a 0 Comments
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Williamstown Summer Farmers Market Seeking New Vendors | 07:18AM / Tuesday, February 10, 2026 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williamstown Farmers Market (WFM) is currently in its third winter season, and the he Summer season will kick off on May 16, on Spring Street. The outdoor market is home to 30+ farmers, prepared food vendors, artisans, musicians, and local non-profits, as well as thousands of regular customers who come to buy fresh, healthy food grown and raised by local farmers, delicious baked goods and other prepared foods, jewelry, arts, crafts, pottery, apothecaries and more. New vendors of all types are encouraged to submit an application for the summer season, and this year, the market is particularly on the lookout for businesses that provide 0 Comments
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Williamstown READI Committee Transitions Away From Select BoardBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:53AM / Tuesday, February 10, 2026 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board on Monday voted unanimously to transition the town's diversity committee away from the role it has served since its inception in 2020. On a 4-0 vote, the board voted to formally dissolve the body recently renamed the Race, Equity, Accessibility, Diversity and Inclusion Committee and allow its members to work directly with the town manager to advance the issues that the former DIRE Committee addressed over the last six years. When the then-Diversity, Inclusion and Racial Equity Committee was formed in the summer of 2020, it was conceived as an advisory body to the Select Board. Over the years, the relationship between 0 Comments
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Clark Art Offers School Vacation Week Activities| 07:41AM / Monday, February 09, 2026 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute offers children and families fun activities celebrating its permanent collection and the special exhibition Shadow Visionaries: French Artists Against the Current, 1840–70 from Tuesday, Feb. 17 through Thursday, Feb. 19 (part of the Massachusetts public school system's February vacation week). The Clark's vacation week programming explores themes of imagination, fantasy, and ghostly realities. From 10 am–noon, drop in to sculpt gargoyles or otherworldly creatures out of mixed media materials. At 1 pm, join a Clark educator for an all-ages interactive tour of Shadow Visionaries that
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Williamstown CPC Sends Eight of 10 Applicants to Town MeetingBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:52AM / Monday, February 09, 2026 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Community Preservation Committee on Wednesday voted to send eight of the 10 grant applications the town received for fiscal year 2027 to May's annual town meeting. Most of those applications will be sent with the full funding sought by applicants. Two six-figure requests from municipal entities received no action from the committee, meaning the proposals will have to wait for another year if officials want to re-apply for funds generated under the Community Preservation Act. The three applications to be recommended to voters at less than full funding also included two in the six-figure range: Purple Valley Trails sought $366,911 for the 0 Comments
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Clark Art Hosts Dinner, Show Pairing Art and Cuisine | 08:18AM / Friday, February 06, 2026 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Feb. 14, the Clark Art Institute presents Dinner and the Show, inspired by the Clark's special exhibition "Shadow Visionaries: French Artists Against the Current, 1840–70." Exhibition curator Anne Leonard, Manton Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, provides a special introduction to the exhibition, followed by a three-course meal inspired by nineteenth-century France. Constellation Culinary's Chef Chris Gouty brings his creative spin to classical French cooking and the themes of memory, fantasy, and longing that anchor the exhibition. With subtle nods to Valentine's Day, Dinner and the Show perfectly combines 0 Comments
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Williamstown, Great Barrington Awarded Wildlife Habitat Grants | 08:06AM / Friday, February 06, 2026 | |
BOSTON—The Healey-Driscoll Administration awarded $343,985 in grants to restore over 191 acres of wildlife habitat across Massachusetts. The Department of Fish and Game's (DFG) Division of Fisheries and Wildlife (MassWildlife) awarded grants to seven organizations through the MassWildlife Habitat Management Grant Program (MHMGP). In Berkshire County: Great Barrington – Berkshire Natural Resources Council has been awarded $31,045 to manage invasive species in floodplain forests and wetlands at the Housatonic Flats Conservation Area and the Rising Pond Conservation Area. Williamstown – The Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation has been 0 Comments
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2026 Williamstown Nomination Papers Available| 10:36AM / Thursday, February 05, 2026 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Nomination papers for elected offices in the Town of Williamstown are now available in the Town Clerk's office. On May 12, 2026, at the Annual Town Election, voters will choose candidates for several town offices. The ballot will include three Select Board seats (two for full three-year terms and one to finish the remaining year of a three-year term), two Library Trustee seats (each for three-year terms), one Housing Authority seat for a five-year term, and one Planning Board seat for a five-year term. Candidates seeking to run for office must stop by Town Clerk, Nicole Beverly's Office to pick up nomination 0 Comments
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2026 Williamstown Dog Licenses Now Available| 04:39PM / Wednesday, February 04, 2026 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Town of Williamstown is now issuing 2026 dog licenses. All dog licenses must be renewed by March 31, 2026. License Fees $5.00 for spayed or neutered dogs $12.00 for all other dogs A $10.00 late fee will be applied to licenses renewed after March 31. How to License Your Dog Dog licenses must be completed online through the Town's permitting website: https://williamstownma.viewpointcloud.com/ Visit the site and scroll down to "Town Clerk Licenses." Look for the picture of the dog. Complete the licensing process online (you will need to create a Viewpoint login if you don't already have one). Pay your fee online or 0 Comments
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Clark Art Lecture on Justice, Property and Punishment in 18th Century Qubec | 07:58AM / Wednesday, February 04, 2026 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, Feb. 10 at 5:30 pm, the Clark Art Institutes Research and Academic Program hosts a talk by Charmaine Nelson (UMass Amherst / Clark/Oakley Humanities Fellow) exploring how transatlantic slavery was grounded in violence and systems of control imposed by enslavers and their surrogates in eighteenth-century Montreal Quebec, Canada. The talk takes place in the Manton Research Center auditorium. In her talk, Nelson draws from the extant business records of eighteenth-century Montreal sheriff Edward William Gray, who worked to sustain and protect the interests of white enslavers such as the Quebec City printers William Brown and Thomas 0 Comments
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Williamstown Community Preservation Panel Weighs Hike in Tax SurchargeBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:16AM / Wednesday, February 04, 2026 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Community Preservation Committee is considering whether to ask town meeting to increase the property tax surcharge that property owners currently pay under the provisions of the Community Preservation Act. Members of the committee have argued that by raising the surcharge to the maximum allowed under the CPA, the town would be eligible for significantly more "matching" funds from the commonwealth to support CPA-eligible projects in community housing, historic preservation and open space and recreation. When the town adopted the provisions of the CPA in 2002 and ever since, it set the surcharge at 2 percent of a property's tax with 0 Comments
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Williamstown Community Preservation Committee Hears from Final ApplicantsBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
12:38PM / Tuesday, February 03, 2026 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Community Preservation Committee last Wednesday heard from the final four applicants for fiscal year 2027 grants and clarified how much funding will be available in the fiscal year that begins on July 1. On Wednesday, Feb. 4, the committee will begin — and, potentially, conclude — deliberation on how much Community Preservation Act money it wants to recommend May's town meeting spend and how those funds will be allocated across 10 applications the committee received for this funding cycle. One thing is clear, the committee will not be able to recommend full funding of all the applicants seeking CPA funds in this cycle. The 0 Comments
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