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 | Holiday Hours: Christmas & New Year's
You once could be fined for celebrating Christmas in Massachusetts. (Massachusetts State Library)
Businesses, schools and government offices will be taking breaks next week as the nation celebrates Christmas and New Year's. Christmas falls on Thursday, Dec. 25, 2025, and New Year's Day on Thursday, Jan. 1, |
 | Clark Art Kids Can Cook! Program Returns
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute's Kids Can Cook! program returns on Saturday, Dec. 28, with two classes.
The first session for children ages 4–7 is at 10:30 am. A second session for ages 8–12 follows at 1:30 pm. Both classes take place in Café 7, on the Clark Center's lower |
 | St. Stan's Students Spread Holiday Cheer at Williamstown Commons
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Students from St. Stanislaus Kostka School in Adams brought the holiday spirit to Williamstown Commons on Thursday, delivering handmade Christmas cards and leading residents in a community caroling session.
"It honestly means the world to us because it means the world to them," said |
 | Clark Art Airs Pruduction of 'The Magic Flute'
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Metropolitan Opera's broadcast production of The Magic Flute airs at the Clark Art Institute on Saturday, Dec. 27 at 1 pm in the latest installment of the 2025–26 season of The Met: Live in HD.
The award-winning series of high-definition cinema simulcasts features full performances |
 | Clark Art Exhibition on French Artists Who Challenged Realism
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute presents an exhibition on mid-nineteenth-century French artists who looked beyond realistic subject matter.
Their work encompasses the Gothic nostalgia of architectural photography, the social critique embedded in searing allegorical illustrations, and the literary |
 | Williamstown Board of Health Looks to Regulate Nitrous Oxide Sales
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Board of Health last week agreed to look into drafting a local ordinance that would regulate the sale of nitrous oxide.
Resident Danielle Luchi raised the issue, telling the board she recently learned a local retailer was selling large containers of the compound, which has legitimate |
 | Annual 1753 House Carol Sing in Williamstown
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The 1753 House Committee and the Williamstown Historical Museum invite the community to the annual 1753 House Carol Sing at 7 pm on Monday, Dec. 22.
The Carol Sing is a free, ecumenical event for all ages.
Deborah Burns will lead the a cappella singing beside a blaze in the |
| Williamstown Fin Comm Talks 10-Year Picture
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Finance Committee on Thursday looked at a bleak fiscal forecast for the town and heard from a Planning Board member who is working on a plan that could help to partly reverse the trend.
Town Manager Robert Menicocci and Finance Director David Fierro Jr. showed the panel a chart projecting a |
 | BHS' New North County Urgent Care Center Opens Tuesday
There is a waiting area and reception desk to the right of the Williamstown Medical entrance.
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Staff and contractors were completing the final touches on Monday to prepare for the opening of Berkshire Health System's new urgent care center.
Robert Shearer, |
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