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State Athletic Association Honors County Umpire| 06:07AM / Saturday, December 09, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A fixture on the baseball diamonds of Berkshire County for three decades has earned statewide recognition. The Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association recently named Don Singleton of Williamstown the 2022-23 Baseball Official of the Year in the commonwealth. It is the latest in a recent string of statewide honors for local high school sports leaders. Earlier this fall, Wahconah Regional High School coach and former athletic director Jared Shannon was named the MIAA's Unified Track and Field Coach of the Year, and Berkshire County Nordic Ski League director Joe Miller was awarded the MIAA's Distinguished Service 0 Comments
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Clark Art Exhibit on Its Works on Paper Acquisitions| 12:00PM / Friday, December 08, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Marking the fiftieth anniversary of its Manton Research Center, the Clark Art Institute presents the opportunity to see a selection of prints, drawings, and photographs acquired between 1973 and 2023. "50 Years and Forward: Works on Paper Acquisitions opens on Dec. 16, 2023 and is on view through March 10, 2024 in the Clark Center. The exhibition features several recent acquisitions as well as other works never previously shown at the Clark. "The Manton Research Center is the home of the Clark’s works on paper collection, said Olivier Meslay, Hardymon Director of the Clark. "As we mark the Manton building’s golden 0 Comments
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Smith College Women Top Williams| 09:47PM / Wednesday, December 06, 2023 | |
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. -- Sofia Rosa scored 25 points and grabbed 10 rebounds Wednesday to lead the Smith College women's basketball team to a 76-68 win over Williams. Arianna Gerig scored 43 points and collected nine rebounds for Williams (6-3), which hosts Wesleyan on Saturday. 0 Comments
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Clark Art Airs 'Florencia En El Amazonas'| 08:00AM / Wednesday, December 06, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Metropolitan Opera's broadcast production of "Florencia en el Amazonas" airs at the Clark Art Institute on Saturday, Dec. 9 at 12:55 pm in the latest installment of the 2023–24 season of The Met: Live in HD. The 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: Sung in Spanish and inspired by the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez, Mexican composer Daniel Catán's 1996 0 Comments
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Williams Men's Basketball Beats SUNY Oneonta| 10:06PM / Tuesday, December 05, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Alex Lee scored 16 points to lead the Williams College men's basketball team to a 70-65 win over SUNY Oneonta on Tuesday. Ben McGraw scored 15 points, and Cole Prowitt-Smith pulled down 10 rebounds in the win. Williams (8-1) goes to Springfield College on Saturday. 0 Comments
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Community Contra Dance in Williamstown| 02:38PM / Tuesday, December 05, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The North Berkshire Contra Dance will hold its monthly community contra dance on Saturday, Dec. 9, with all dances taught by Andy Davis to live fiddle music by George Wilson and Selma Kaplan. 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. According to a press release: Contra dancing is a living tradition in New England. For hundreds of years, neighbors and friends have made their own social entertainment in this highly collaborative dance form. New dancers and 0 Comments
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Williamstown's Remedy Hall Helps Provide Life's NecessitiesBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
12:16PM / Tuesday, December 05, 2023 | |
Remedy Hall has walk-in hours Monday through Friday from 1 to 5 at Williamstown's First Congregational Church. Volunteers are also available at other times by cell phone. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A new charitable organization is looking for donations of household items and help making sure those items are ready for a new home. "This is what dignity is all about to me," Andi Bryant of Remedy Hall said. "When people get into situations where the world is heavy and they need items, but they're getting cracked dishes, or, 'Here, take this. It's missing some things,' or, 'You have to clean it.' To me, that's 0 Comments
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Williamstown Select Board Looks at Property Tax Relief IdeasBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:12AM / Tuesday, December 05, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board last week looked at a number of alternatives that could help the town make its property tax system a little more equitable. The issue of how property taxes disproportionately impact lower- and moderate-income homeowners came up in the summer, when newly-elected board member Stephanie Boyd suggested using the Residential Tax Exemption to make the town's main source of revenue a less regressive tax. The RTE, she argued, would shift more of the property tax levy onto owners of higher-valued homes and reduce the tax bills of those whose homes were assessed with a lower value. At the time, Andrew Hogeland argued that the RTE 0 Comments
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Williamstown Farms Awarded State Grants| 08:00AM / Monday, December 04, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Fairfield Dairy Farm and Bonnie Lea Farm both received Climate Smart Agriculture Program (CSAP) grants The Healey-Driscoll Administration announced $1.75 million in CSAP grants to 56 Massachusetts agricultural operations to implement management practices that will help them adapt to changing climate conditions and enhance their contributions to meeting the state's carbon reduction and climate change mitigation goals. "Our farmers see the devastating impacts of climate change every day. They are seizing this opportunity to adopt cutting edge technology and the latest climate science to help lower emissions and promote 0 Comments
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Williams Men's Basketball Comes Back to Win at Wesleyan| 07:04PM / Saturday, December 02, 2023 | |
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. -- Cole Prowitt Smith scored in the paint with 27 seconds left to give the Williams College men's basketball team the lead for good in a 62-60 win over Wesleyan on Saturday. Williams trailed by 10 points with just less than nine minutes left but went on a 14-4 run to tie it, 54-54, with 3:29 on the clock. Alex Lee scored 19 points to lead Williams, which got 12 from Nate Karren. Williams (7-1) hosts SUNY Oneonta on Tuesday. Women's Basketball WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Arianna Gerig scored 28 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to lead Williams to a 70-60 win over Babson. Mairi Smith and Ellie Tounkara each scored 10 points for Williams 0 Comments
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Clark Art Hosts Williams College Chamber Music Gala | 08:00AM / Friday, December 01, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday, Dec. 8 at 7 pm the Clark Art Institute hosts a concert by the Williams College Music Department. The Chamber Music Gala presents an afternoon of chamber music. The program of piano, string, and wind chamber music showcases students performing selections from their spring semester chamber music collaborations. This free concert takes place in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. Free; no registration is required. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 549 0524. 0 Comments
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Clark Art Hosts Morningside Student Poets| 04:00PM / Thursday, November 30, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, Dec. 2 at noon, the Clark Art Institute hosts student poets from Morningside Community Elementary School, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, who will recite their work during a celebratory reception for a student poetry project that is currently installed on the Clark's grounds. The reception is free and open to the public. The event takes place in the Clark's Michael Conforti Pavilion. On Nov. 27, fifty-one tree tags embroidered with lines of student poetry were placed on trees along the Clark's trails, near Analia Saban's Teaching A Cow How to Draw (2020) fence that borders the Clark's pasture, and along the trail up 0 Comments
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