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Clark Art Broadcasts 'King Lear'| 08:01AM / Friday, February 16, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday, Feb. 25 at 2 pm, the Clark Art Institute broadcasts a recording of Shakespeare's "King Lear" filmed live in London. This event takes place in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: Ian McKellen stars as King Lear in this tender, violent play. Considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written, King Lear sees two aging fathers—one a King, one his courtier—reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, as family and state are plunged into a violent power struggle with 0 Comments
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Williamstown Looking to Designate Leashed, Unleashed Dog Areas at SprucesBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:23AM / Friday, February 16, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board on Monday discussed finding a way to designate areas in the Spruces Park where dogs can and cannot be kept off leash. The discussion was a continuation of last year's annual town meeting, where the meeting voted to take no action on a proposal to change the town's bylaw allowing dogs to be off leash or "under voice command" in the General Residence District. Subsequent to the meeting, town officials realized there is a bylaw on the books that the Select Board, acting in its capacity as the town's Parks Commission, enacted in 1977 and amended 1998 that requires animals to be leashed in town parks. That 0 Comments
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Letter: Democratic Writer Out of Touch With RealityLetter to the Editor,
07:00PM / Thursday, February 15, 2024 | |
 To the Editor:
Let me start by saying that I have zero expectations that this will be published on iBerkshires because any messages against the favored leftist narrative are not allowed on your platform.
After reading his letter to the editor entitled "Contrast Between Parties," I'm struggling to determine if Michael Wise is merely out of touch with reality or if he's intentionally attempting to gaslight people. My guess is that it's the latter. He claims that "Only one of our national political parties cares anymore about good government," and asserts that is the Democrats. Is our wide-open southern border an example of that "good government?"
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Williamstown Select Board Urged to Sign Resolution on Gaza Cease FireBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
10:30AM / Wednesday, February 14, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board Monday heard impassioned pleas to take a stand for peace in the continuing war in Gaza and resulting humanitarian crisis. One of the many residents who turned out for the board's biweekly meeting talked about the horror they felt on Sunday evening as they watched a video of a young girl hanging from the side of a bomb damaged building in the city of Rafah in southern Gaza. "And at that moment, there were cheers downstairs because the Chiefs had one," the Williams College student told the board over a Zoom link. "We live in a time when we are blessed and cursed with such advancements in communication. We can 0 Comments
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Clark Art Offers Activities During School Vacation Week | 08:00AM / Wednesday, February 14, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.— From Monday, Feb. 19 through Friday, Feb. 23, the Clark Art Institute hosts special activities during February School Vacation Week. Every day this week, visitors can also pick up a set of complimentary colored pencils and a drawing pad at the Clark Center Admissions desk. Admission is free for all visitors through March 31, 2024. Drop-in Cyanotype-Making Feb. 22, 2–4 pm Clark Center, Michael Conforti Pavilion Learn more about the photographic printing process. Drop in anytime from 2–4 pm and experiment with light-sensitive paper to make your own cyanotype. Printmaking Workshops Feb. 23, 1 & 2 pm Clark Center, 0 Comments
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'Emancipation' Opens at WCMA | 07:45AM / Tuesday, February 13, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.—In conjunction with the 160th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) will present newly commissioned and recent works by Sadie Barnette, Alfred Conteh, Maya Freelon, Hugh Hayden, Letitia Huckaby, Jeffrey Meris, and Sable Elyse Smith in a new exhibition visualizing Black freedom, agency, and the legacy of the Civil War today and beyond. The seven installations featured in "Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation"—spanning sculpture, photography, and paper and textile fabrications—will react to the legacy of John Quincy Adams Ward's bronze sculpture "The Freedman" 0 Comments
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Berkshire Running Sets Full Year of Charity RunsCommunity submission,
06:42AM / Tuesday, February 13, 2024 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- Berkshire Running Foundation has released the 2024 Race Calendar for the local nonprofit with several new events scheduled throughout the county. Following its first official year operating as a nonprofit entity in 2023, the 501c3 organization, which has a mission of advancing and expanding on the positive impact the running community has on the neighborhoods we live, produced, and directed eight events in 2023. The Foundation donated just more than $48,000 to local nonprofit entities which benefit from each event. The Foundation has also incorporated that all students in Berkshire County can run in these races for free. To encourage families to 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock Superintendent to Work on Culture Shift Over Next 3 YearsBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:55AM / Tuesday, February 13, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Mount Greylock Regional School Superintendent has goals for the next three years that he characterized as simple yet profound. "I think somebody could look at this and say, 'OK, Dr. McCandless, you are the Mayor of Simpleton,'" Jason McCandless said last week, referencing a single from the English rock group XTC. "'You want kids to be nice to one another, and you want them to show up at school. Big deal.' "It is a big deal." McCandless made that comment toward the end of a presentation on his goals to the Mount Greylock Regional School Committee at its Feb. 8 meeting. McCandless told the 0 Comments
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Clark Art Gallery Talk With Emerging Art Historians| 08:15AM / Monday, February 12, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday, Feb. 16, enjoy a new look at old favorites in the Clark's permanent collection. In Fresh Takes, a Williams College graduate student shares their take on an object (or two) with the perspective of new scholarship. Tours begin in the Museum Pavilion at noon. No registration is required. 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock District Looking to Mitigate Cost Increases in FY25 BudgetBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:08AM / Monday, February 12, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee on Thursday started to hear numbers that will feed the fiscal year 2025 budget that the panel will be asked to approve next month. Most of the presentation from the district's assistant superintendent and business manager focused on the revenue side of the budget, but Joe Bergeron did offer some insight into some of the increased expenses the regional district will face in the year that begins on July 1. Since the committee's last gathering, the district got one key piece of data, a 7 percent increase in health insurance costs that will add about $225,000 to what is a $25 million operating budget 0 Comments
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Williamstown Boba Purveyor: 'It's Where Joy is Born'By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
04:51PM / Friday, February 09, 2024 | |
Glory-Anne Jones jokes with the first customers at her Tea and Boba Lounge on Friday afternoon. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The owner of Spring Street's newest business knows the power of tea. On Friday afternoon, Glory-Anne Jones cut the ribbon and welcomed the public to the Tea and Boba Lounge at 76 Spring St., a sister store to Chocolate Is Self-Care, a manufacturer and tea studio that she operates in Cohoes, N.Y. While the New York business has chocolate in its name, don't think candy bars. Think "Chocolate Raspberry Spice Tea," "Chocolate Chai Ginger Tea," or any of the dozen exclusive tea blends that Jones helped create. All those 0 Comments
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HooRWA: What Happens on Land Doesn’t Stay on Land| 12:30PM / Thursday, February 08, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Ecosystem ecologist Allison Gill will talk on "Land to Water: Managing Terrestrial Landscapes to Support Healthy Waterways" at the Hoosic River Watershed (HooRWA)'s State of the River and Annual Meeting, Tuesday, Feb. 13 at 7:00 p.m. in Williams College's Griffin 5. She will discuss how the way people treat land impacts waterways, like the Hoosic River. All are welcome. No registration needed for this free program co-hosted by Williams College Center for Environmental Studies. A brief Annual Meeting of the Hoosic River Watershed Association (HooRWA) will proceed the presentation, with a review on some of 0 Comments
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