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Hari Kumar Joins NPC Board | 04:01PM / Thursday, February 20, 2025 | |
 GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Hari Stephen Kumar of Williamstown has joined the board of Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires. Kumar is the founder of Convivo, a Berkshire-born small business that helps people build authentic communication skills for both professional and personal settings. With graduate degrees in engineering and communications, he has 20 years of facilitation and training experience in the tech industry and higher education sectors. Kumar is a graduate of E4All Berkshire County's Fall 2024 cohort, and member of the 1Berkshire Youth Leadership Program Steering Committee. Officers of the NPC board include Emily Schiavoni (President), Hari Kumar (Vice 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock Regional School District Second Quarter Honor Roll| 08:16AM / Thursday, February 20, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School District has released its 2024-2025 second quarter honor roll, with 346 students out of a total enrollment of 534 achieving honor roll status. Honor Roll Grade 12 Emily Alvarez, Marshall Baya, Jameson Bayliss, Nicholas Bellora, Jayne Beringer, Oliver Bingemann, Claire Burrow, Miguel Camacho, Olivia Cook, Vera de Jong, Kaeya Durley, Katherine Goss, Chase Hoey, Charlotte Holubar, William Igoe, Jaclynn Kastrinakis, Caliegh Kiernan, Noah Klompus, Malia Koffi, Jaden Lash-St. John, Kelsey MacHaffie, Mila Marcisz, Rafael Mellow-Bartels, Cameron Miller, Arthur Millet, Mai O'Connor, Mia Patrick, Erik Powell-Bechtel, 0 Comments
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Clark Art Lecture on Stuart Hall| 07:42AM / Thursday, February 20, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, Feb.25, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program presents a talk by David Scott (Columbia University / Clark Fellow) examining the career of Stuart Hall and the publication of Hall's landmark book, "The Popular Arts." This free event takes place at 5:30 pm in the Manton Research Center auditorium. According to a press release: Influenced by Hoggart's The Uses of Literacy (1957) and Raymond Williams's Culture and Society (1958), this much-neglected book helped to inaugurate the study of contemporary popular culture as well as contemporary media studies. Engaging television and cinema,
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Cancer Crusaders to Host Annual Cabin Fever Dance Fundraiser| 08:13AM / Wednesday, February 19, 2025 | |
 BENNINGTON, Vt. — The Cancer Crusaders will host their annual Cabin Fever Dance on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, from 7 to 11 PM at the Elks Lodge, 125 Washington Avenue. The event serves as the organization’s largest fundraiser, with all proceeds benefiting the Patient Resource Fund at the Cancer Center in Bennington. Admission is $15, payable at the door or in advance at the Elks Lodge daily from 12–8 PM (back patio entrance). DJ John Wooddell will provide music, and attendees can enjoy a cash bar, light snacks, raffles, prizes, and contests. Those interested in donating a basket or gift card for the raffle can contact Kitty Lewis at 802-733-5816. 0 Comments
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Presentation on The Future of Wolves at MCLA's Green Living Seminar| 08:07AM / Wednesday, February 19, 2025 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Carnivore Conservation Director Renee Seacor will give a presentation on the future of wolves on Feb. 26 as part of MCLA's Green Living Seminar Series. Seacor, who directs Project Coyote at the Carnivore Conservation, will discuss the potential of wolf recovery in the Northeast, highlighting the history of wolves in the region, previous attempts at reintroduction in the Adirondack Park, the emerging science of wolf and coyote genetics, and the intersection of these issues with public policy. Despite being federally protected as an endangered species, the wolf faces significant challenges as it attempts to reclaim its historical range in the 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock Schools Focus on Student LiteracyBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:04AM / Wednesday, February 19, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School District is placing an emphasis on literacy instruction that is reflected in the preliminary budget that the administration put forth last week. Interim Superintendent Joseph Bergeron and Director of Curriculum and Instruction Joelle Brookner laid out the reasons why literacy needs to be a priority for the district and the steps staff plan to take to address that need during the School Committee's Feb. 13 meeting. Bergeron opened by emphasizing that while there are issues that need to be addressed, the district continues to do a good job educating the students of Lanesborough, Williamstown and surrounding 0 Comments
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PowerSchool Offers Identity Monitoring in Wake of Data BreachBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
02:59PM / Tuesday, February 18, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Families of school-children concerned about the PowerSchool data breach announced last year can sign up for two years of free identity monitoring services paid for by the school information system vendor. Mount Greylock Regional School interim Superintendent Joseph Bergeron mentioned the offer at last week's meeting of the School Committee and said he was hoping to spread the word through as many channels as possible. "We have plenty of folks whose emails have changed," Bergeron said, pointing out the difficulty in reaching every former student or staff member who could have been affected by the data breach. Bergeron said a link 0 Comments
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Higher Taxes, Loss of Latin Seen in Mount Greylock's Tentative Spending PlanBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
12:17PM / Tuesday, February 18, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee on Thursday began honing in on a budget that will require much larger assessment increases than the district's two member towns typically see. While repeatedly stressing that the fiscal year 2026 budget on the table was a draft, interim Superintendent explained that the spending plan he has crafted reflects the reality of non-discretionary cost increases, state aid that is not rising anywhere near the rate of those increases and some of the investments in personnel and course material that came from the district's three school councils. As it stands now, the district would see an increase in its 0 Comments
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Images Launches $2.2M Capital Campaign| 09:01AM / Tuesday, February 18, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass — Images Cinema has announced a major facility renovation project, the first in 17 years, which will dramatically enhance the availability of cinematic experiences in the region by upgrading amenities and adding a second screen. The project, "Look Forward," is a $2.2 million multi-year, multi-phase construction and capital campaign that organizers say will propel the nonprofit organization's facility toward a sustainable future. Images has already raised over $1.3 million for this two-screen modernization project and will now launch a public capital campaign. It has applied for $33,000 in Community Preservation Act funding. The 0 Comments
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Williamstown's Images Cinema Plans to Double Its ImpactBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:53AM / Tuesday, February 18, 2025 | |
The 150-seat movie house will be split into a 70-seat theater and a 19-seat screening room. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Images Cinema wants to double its impact while remaining within its current footprint on Spring Street. The non-profit art house movie theater Tuesday launches the public phase of a $2.2 million capital campaign to add a second screen to the 109-year-old venue. "This plan would allow us to increase programming and better serve a multiplicity of audiences and demographics, which have become increasingly important as younger families are moving into the area," Images Executive Director Dan Hudson said last month. "North Adams 0 Comments
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Williamstown Again Williams' Town in Summer of '25By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:45PM / Sunday, February 16, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williamstown Theatre Festival has announced a 2025 season with five full-scale productions, including two world premieres and two revivals of dramas by Tennessee Williams. The summer festival lists the five productions on its website, which provides no information about dates and says tickets go on sale "in March." In addition to two of his own works, Williams' influence is seen in one of the new works planned for the summer season, according to the WTF. Williams, a Pulitzer Prize winner, was to have been included in the WTF's aborted 2020 season with a production of "A Streetcar Named Desire." After the 0 Comments
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