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Mount Greylock, Shakespeare & Co. Stage 'Twelfth Night' | 04:04PM / Monday, November 10, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Mount Greylock Regional School and Shakespeare & Company present "Twelfth Night" in the school's auditorium at 1781 Cold Spring Road in Williamstown. Performances are Thursday and Friday, Nov. 13 and 14, at 7 p.m. "Twelfth Night," by William Shakespeare, is a comedic tale of mistaken identities, wildly changing fortunes and love triangles. This production is part of Shakespeare and Company's annual Fall Festival of Shakespeare, which is celebrating its 37th year." The Fall Festival of Shakespeare is made possible with funding from the Dr. Robert C. and Tina Sohn Foundation, the Feigenbaum Foundation, the Janey Fund,
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Clark Art Lecture on Reading Coastlines| 01:43PM / Monday, November 10, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, Nov. 18 at 5:30 pm, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program hosts a talk by Leslie Geddes (Tulane University / Clark Fellow) that examines how early modern cartographers taught others to see coastlines and read their contours in maps. The talk takes place in the Manton Research Center auditorium. This talk makes Italian hydrography distinct by focusing on how early modern printed atlases shed light on the vast conceptual gulf between articulating known terrain versus cartographic imaginings of remote seas. More than collections of maps, atlases such as Robert Dudley's Arcano del Mare (“The Secrets of 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock School District Addressing Food InsecurityBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:32AM / Monday, November 10, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The interruption in benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program has the Mount Greylock Regional School District looking for more ways to address food insecurity in the families it serves. Superintendent Joe Bergeron on Thursday told the School Committee about how the district and its three schools are working to lessen the strain on members of the school community. "We started by strengthening our relationships with the local food pantries in Williamstown and Lanesborough," Bergeron said at the committee's monthly meeting. "One challenge we noticed is that sometimes for families or our high school students, 0 Comments
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Green River Financial Founded on 140 Years of ExperienceBy Tammy Daniels , iBerkshires Staff
05:15AM / Monday, November 10, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The new Green River Financial Services is bringing more than a century of experience to its clients, offering a more personalized and customized service. Principals Robert Abel, Jason Dohaney and James Durand parted with MountainOne Financial Services in early October to establish Green River. Together with other employees, they hold more than 140 years of experience. "We have a lot of really good thoughts and feelings about working for that organization for a long time, building a financial services division almost from scratch, and growing it significantly over time," said Abel. "It was not an easy decision to leave for any one of 0 Comments
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Veterans Day Ceremonies and Holiday Hours| 10:01AM / Saturday, November 08, 2025 | |
An image of the 353rd Infantry in France taken two minutes before the armistice ending World War I went into effect. Veterans Day falls on Tuesday, Nov. 11, and will be observed as a state and federal holiday. The federal holiday commemorates the service of the nation's military veterans in ensuring peace.
It was first known as Armistice Day to mark the end of World War I at the 11th hour, on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. In recognition of the efforts of World War II veterans, President Eisenhower signed legislation in 1954 creating Veterans Day to honor all American veterans. The Veterans Day National Committee chooses a commemorative poster each year from
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Williamstown Health Board Talks Smoking at Senior ApartmentsBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:37AM / Thursday, November 06, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Board of Health on Tuesday discussed how to address reports of smoking inside the senior apartments at Proprietor's Field and Highland Woods. Health Inspector Ruth Russell asked the board how she should handle the complaints she has received in light of the fact that the town bylaw against smoking in multifamily housing remains in legal limbo. The town does have a bylaw already on the books about smoking in workplaces, Russell noted, and it is arguable that the age-restricted housing complexes fall under that provision. "I was hesitant to call it a work place," Russell said. "But there are maintenance workers in and out 1 Comment
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Williams Receives Another Racial Harassment ReportStaff Reports ,
02:23PM / Wednesday, November 05, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A Williams College student has reported an incident of racial harassment on a public street late Saturday night, according to a campus-wide email from school officials. Director of Campus Safety Services Jeffrey Palmer and Vice President for Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leticia S. E. Haynes sent the email Wednesday morning about an incident that reportedly occurred at about 1 a.m. Sunday morning on Hoxsey Street. A Williams student reported that, "an individual driving a white 4-door pickup with Mass plates shouting a racial slur and threatening physical harm," the email read. The email was accompanied by a photo 1 Comment
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Clark Art Lecture on Emamzadeh Yahya Project| 07:36AM / Wednesday, November 05, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, Nov. 11 at 5:30 pm, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program hosts a talk with Keelan Overton (Independent Scholar / Clark Fellow) on the Emamzadeh Yahya Project. The talk takes place in the Manton Research Center auditorium. Established in 2021, the aim of the Emamzadeh Yahya Project is to increase awareness and understanding of the Emamzadeh Yahya shrine complex and its dispersed tiles, collections, and archives worldwide, without pursuing commercial, political, or institutional objectives. The project's key values are independence (of conception and production), collaboration (between individuals and 1 Comment
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McCann Tech Roof, New Monument Mountain High School OK'd by VotersBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires.com
09:46PM / Tuesday, November 04, 2025 | |
ADAMS, Mass. — By wide margins, school infrastructure projects were approved by voters at both ends of the county on Tuesday. In Adams, the question of whether to allow a Proposition 2-1/2 debt exclusion to enable McCann Tech’s roof and window replacement project received a resounding yes by a margin of 553-169. In South County, the three member towns in the Berkshire Hills Regional School District all approved a $152 million project to build a new Monument Mountain Regional High School, according to the Berkshire Edge. Up north, Adams was the last town to weigh in on the $16.8 million project at McCann Tech. It was one of only two communities in 1 Comment
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Northern Berkshire Contra Dance | 02:36PM / Tuesday, November 04, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — North Berkshire Community Dance will hold its monthly contra dance on Saturday, Nov. 8. Ben Sachs-Hamilton, the caller, will teach every dance, and live fiddle music will be provided by the California-based band, "Raven and Goose". The dance will run 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. in the Community Hall of the First Congregational Church, 906 Main St., Williamstown. Admission is pay-as-you-can: $12 - $20 suggested, and barter is also welcome. Contra dancing is a living tradition in New England; for hundreds of years, neighbors and friends have made their own social entertainment in this easy and highly collaborative dance form. 1 Comment
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Local Girls Lacrosse Teams Excel at TournamentCommunity submission,
11:10AM / Tuesday, November 04, 2025 | |
 DEVENS, Mass. — Two girls lacrosse travel teams in the Equinox Lacrosse program turned in strong performances at The Chill, a college recruiting tournament held Oct. 18 and 19. The Equinox 26/27 team capped off a dominant day by bringing home the championship, battling through a competitive field that featured some of the strongest club teams from across New England. The group’s teamwork, hustle, and determination were on full display as they earned the top spot in their division. The 28/29 team also impressed, going toe-to-toe with high-level competition and showing major growth throughout the tournament. Their energy and resilience caught the attention of 1 Comment
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Clark Art, Images Host Screening of 'The Hitch-Hiker'| 10:27AM / Monday, November 03, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, Nov. 6, at 6 pm, the Clark Art Institute, in collaboration with Images Cinema, continues its Noir Film Series with a screening of "The Hitch-Hiker" (1953). This program takes place in the Clark's Manton Research Center auditorium. Two men on a fishing trip pick up a mass-murdering hitcher and are forced at gunpoint to drive him through Mexico until the fatal moment when he no longer needs them. Director Ida Lupino never relaxes the film's tension for a moment, yet her emotional sensitivity is also upfront: charting the changes in the menaced men's relationship as they bicker about how to deal with their 1 Comment
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