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Mount Greylock School Committee 'Struggles' with High-Stakes MCAS Question
By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:41AM / Monday, October 21, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee last week had a microcosm of the debate with which voters around the commonwealth will grapple when they go to the polls over the next few weeks: whether to continue using the MCAS test as a requirement for a high school diploma.   Question 2 on the Nov. 5 ballot, if passed, would eliminate the current practice requiring high school students to pass the 10th grade Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System test in order to graduate from school.   The issue arose at the October meeting of the regional school committee in the context of advising the body's delegate to this fall's Massachusetts

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Clark Art Series of Talks With Writers
08:15AM / Sunday, October 20, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — This autumn, the Clark Art Institute hosts a series of free talks and book signings by writers in the Manton Research Center auditorium.   Oct. 30, 6 pm SEBASTIAN SMEE: PARIS IN RUINS Pulitzer Prize-winner Sebastian Smee, art critic for The Washington Post, makes a special appearance to introduce his new book "Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism."   From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871 Paris and its people were besieged, enduring bloody street battles, the burning of central Paris, and widespread starvation. It was against the backdrop of these tumultuous times that the Impressionist movement was born?in response

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Clark Art Lecture on Cross-Cultural Visualizations of Territory
11:17AM / Friday, October 18, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, Oct. 22, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program presents "Here, Low, In This River Bend," a lecture by Adrian Anagnost (Tulane University / Clark Fellow), who charts a cross-cultural history of visualizing territoriality in the lower Mississippi River Valley and the Gulf of Mexico.    This free event takes place at 5 pm in the Manton Research Center auditorium.   According to a press release:   Among Indigenous inhabitants, the area that would become New Orleans was known as Bvlbancha—the land of many tongues, or many waters. This region was located at the threshold of land and water and, by the

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Clark Art Screens 'The French Connection'
08:11AM / Friday, October 18, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — As part of its free David-Jeremiah film series this fall, the Clark Art Institute screens The "French Connection" (1971) at 6 pm on Oct. 24 in the Manton Research Center auditorium.   According to a press release:   Director William Friedkin's documentary-style account of a 1961 smashup of an international heroin-trafficking ring by two New York cops—played by two then-little-known actors, Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider—is a real-time thriller about staking out criminals, the bureaucracy of crime-fighting, class differences, and the ugliness of bigotry (especially when it wears a plain-clothes uniform). But it's also about

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Clark Art Invites People with Dementia, Caregivers
08:10AM / Thursday, October 17, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Monday, Oct. 21 at 1 pm in the permanent collection galleries, the Clark Art Institute presents Meet Me at the Clark.    This free gallery talk program is designed specifically for people living with dementia and their care partners.   On select Mondays, when the museum is closed to the general public, specially trained educators guide open-ended conversations about art and how it celebrates our shared humanity   Free. Advance registration required; capacity is limited. To register, please call the Education Department Coordinator at 413 458 0563.  

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Clark Art Hosts Talk by Master of Glass
12:03PM / Wednesday, October 16, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — At 2 pm on Sunday, Oct. 20, the Clark Art Institute hosts glass artist Josh Simpson, who offers a glimpse into historical and contemporary glassmaking techniques.    This free event takes place in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center.   Presented in conjunction with "Fragile Beauty: Treasures from the Corning Museum," this talk explores the intricate process behind creating one of the exhibition's stunning objects, Megaworld. Drawing parallels to his own work in his rural studio, Simpson discusses how natural and astronomical inspirations translate into glass art. Fragile Beauty will be on view for one

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Williamstown's ABC Seeks Grant Applications
10:24AM / Wednesday, October 16, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The ABC Shop at 30 Spring St. distributes the profits from its sale of gently used high quality clothing twice a year to charitable causes that contribute to the well-being of the community.    The deadline for fall grant applications is November 1, 2024, and ABC encourages new agencies to apply for grants of up to $5000.    Interested agencies will find the simple application available online at abcclothingshop.org/grants.    ABC has been making grants to community organizations since 2015.  Recent recipients include: 18 Degrees, Berkshire Academy for Advanced Musical Studies, Berkshire Food Project, Berkshire Immigration

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Mount Greylock School Committee Weighs New Public Comment Policy
By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:08AM / Wednesday, October 16, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee Thursday discussed a change to its policy on public comment at School Committee meetings in light of a recent Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling.   Jose Constantine, who chairs the School Committee's Policy and Governance Subcommittee, explained to his colleagues that the state's highest court has decided that school committees cannot enforce rules that strive to maintain civility at its sessions.   "We can't limit or control what's said," Constantine said.   The existing district policy includes the following language: "Improper conduct and remarks will not be

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Williamstown Apothecary To Close
04:05PM / Tuesday, October 15, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – Driven by low utilization and pharmaceutical reimbursement rates, Berkshire Health Systems has made the necessary decision to close the Williamstown Apothecary, effective Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024.   Williamstown Apothecary patient prescriptions will be transferred to the Berkshire Community Pharmacy at North Adams, with the availability of free at-home delivery or free delivery by mail. Affected staff will be offered similar positions within Berkshire Health Systems.   According to a press release:   Berkshire Health Systems is proud to be a nonprofit organization guided by a deep connection to our community and a commitment to responsible financial

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Clark Art Airs Live Production of 'Grounded'
08:04AM / Tuesday, October 15, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Metropolitan Opera's broadcast of "Grounded" airs at the Clark Art Institute on Saturday, Oct. 19 at 1 pm in the latest installment of the 2024–25 season of The Met: Live in HD. This award-winning series of live, high-definition cinema simulcasts features the full live performance along with backstage interviews and commentary.    The Clark broadcasts the opera in its auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center.   According to a press release:   Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori's powerful new opera "Grounded" premieres at the Metropolitan Opera, wrestling with often-overlooked issues

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Williamstown Planning Board Digs into Dry Well Question
By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:41AM / Tuesday, October 15, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Planning Board last week discussed a way to allow geothermal wells in town while protecting the aquifer that supplies drinking water to the town of 7,000.   The issue came up this summer when Public Works Director Craig Clough informed the board of a resident’s plan to install a geothermal system in their home in the Water Resource District.   Clough pointed out that there currently are no regulations at the state or local level for where such systems can go. And he informed the panel that some closed-loop geothermal systems incorporate the use of propylene glycol as an antifreeze.   "Twenty-three gallons [of propylene glycol] in one

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Work Begins on New Williams College Museum of Art
By Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
05:28AM / Tuesday, October 15, 2024

The museum is projected to open in fall 2027. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Site work has already begun on the new Williams College Museum of Art with a grand opening projected in fall 2027.   The building will feature a single-story layout with expansive public spaces and integrated landscape on the site of the old Williams Inn.   "The other thing that I love to highlight at this early point in talking about the building's location is it is at the entrance to campus and at the entrance to town, and it carries a really energizing message that Williams and Williamstown are a place of creativity and community," said Pamela Franks, Class of 1956 director of the

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