LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — There is no way town officials will support a 4 percent increase in assessments from Mount Greylock Regional School.

The Mount Greylock School Committee's proposed budget calls for a 4 percent increase to the town of Lanesborough and 4.6 percent increase to Williamstown.

The change translates to $102,727 more from Lanesborough and $213,957 from Williamstown.

"We won't put forth a 4 percent increase to the voters. I don't know where it will be but it won't be 4 percent," said Finance Committee member Bill Stevens at Thursday's public hearing at Lanesborough Elementary School.

After hearing their concerns, the School Committee

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LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — As the feasibility study to renovate or build a new high school is set to be voted on at town meeting, officials want to know Hancock, New Ashford and Richmond's intentions.

The Board of Selectmen will hold a meeting later this month to discuss the various parts of a new or renovation project.

One of those parts would be if Hancock, New Ashford and Richmond wants to join the Mount Greylock Regional School District, offset some of the cost, or continue with the tuition agreement.

"We're looking at this as a business," said Town Administrator Paul Sieloff on Monday. "You just can't look at this as a day-to-day

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School District's recent trend of declining enrollment will continue but slow, according to projections from the commonwealth's school building authority.

School Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Greene met Monday night with the Selectmen to discuss the enrollment figures and some of the issues that have cropped up in recent months as the district attempts to move forward in the Massachusetts School Building Authority process.

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LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — The school district may not be withdrawing from Superintendency Union 71 right now, but it will investigate other options.

The School Committee voted 2-1 on Wednesday in favor of exploring alternative affiliations and stated that it will start by working with Union 71 to see if it can work better.

"We're not voting to leave SU71. I am not voting to leave SU71," said Committee member James Moriarity. "I would have to be very compelled to leave SU71."

He pointed out the the union showed a willingness to work through issues that he hadn't seen before, giving him optimism for future dealings with Williamstown.

But, voting in favor of

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The show must go on.

That's what Mount Greylock Regional High School teacher Jeffrey Welch knew when he found out last November that the annual spring musical he directs would not be able to be performed at the school because of fire code issues in the auditorium. Not willing to let that derail the 15th annual spring production, Welch and Principal Mary MacDonald began looking around for another venue.

They found Williams College, which is letting the students use the prestigious MainStage of the college's '62 Center for Theatre and Dance for their two performances of "Guys and Dolls" this weekend, at 7 p.m. both Friday and Saturday, March

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Patterns exist in social justice movements.

Conciseness, and the realization that there are shared experiences between oppressed people, progresses movements, says Gloria Steinem.

"Saying what happened to us and discovering shared experiences is the beginning of every profound social justice movement I know of," she said. "It moves from individual experience, through naming, through organizing, and to changing public policy."

The feminist activist and writer discussed the progression of feminism and social justice movements at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts on Tuesday night as part of its Public Policy Series on Equality.

Steinem

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Gloria Steinem was happy to be at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts on Tuesday because of what the public college represented.

"I'm glad to be on a campus that is closer to universal free education that I wish we had as a country," she said. "It's more accessible and I think I understand that students are less likely to end up in debt. Which is a current outrage in this country."

The equal rights activist, journalist, lecturer, editor and author shared more of her occasionally "outraged" thoughts on current social and political issues, the progress of women's rights and other topics with local media before an

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