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Williamstown Business Owner Calls for Action on Economic DevelopmentBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
11:56AM / Friday, November 08, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A Spring Street business owner and former town official is sounding the alarm about the economic health of the Village Business District. Amy Jeschawitz, who owns Nature's Closet and formerly served on the Planning Board, went to the Finance Committee last week to raise concerns about what she characterized as the lack of an "overall plan" for economic development in the town. "Economic development, housing, new growth and business all go hand in hand," Jeschawitz said, alluding to the topic that dominated the Fin Comm's meeting before she addressed the body. "I know what a struggle it is for housing in this 0 Comments
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Clark Art Gallery Talk With Emerging Art Historians| 08:00AM / Friday, November 08, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday, Nov. 15, 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 with the perspective of new scholarship. Tours begin in the Museum Pavilion at noon. No registration is required. 0 Comments
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Berkshire Ajax Soccer Club Sets TryoutsCommunity submission,
01:56PM / Thursday, November 07, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- The Berkshire Ajax Soccer Club will hold a tryout for the 2025 spring season on Sunday, Nov. 10, on Williams College's Farley-Lamb turf field. Girls with birth dates from 2006-2012 will try out from 9:15 to 10:30 a.m. Boys with birth dates from 2006-2012 will try out from 10:30 to noon. You must fill out the Berkshire Ajax Club Registration and the Club Waiver form by going online to berkshireajax.com. Players should wear shin guards and bring water. Please contact Mike Russo (trusso@williams.edu) or call or text at 413-441-6127 with any questions. 0 Comments
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Clark Art Lecture on Images of the Female Body in 20th Century Argentina| 08:11AM / Thursday, November 07, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, Nov. 12, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program presents "Being Gorgeous Is a Duty!", a lecture by María Isabel Baldasarre (Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas / Every Page Foundation Fellow). This free event takes place at 5:30 pm in the Manton Research Center auditorium. According to a press release: Baldasarre analyzes how throughout the twentieth century a hegemonic image of the female body was shaped and spread through popular culture in Argentina. Visual culture—magazines, cinema, 0 Comments
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Williamstown Finance Sees Pressure on Property Tax BillsBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:38AM / Thursday, November 07, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A stagnant local economy promises to put increasing upward pressure on local tax bills. That was the takeaway from a late October meeting of the town's Finance Committee, which sat down with the town assessor and town manager to look at long-term trends in budgeting as the town puts together a fiscal year 2026 spending plan which the Fin Comm will review this winter. Williamstown's lack of "new growth," the term for increases to the town's tax base through either new construction or significant renovations to existing homes and businesses, has been a talking point for the Finance Committee for years. Last Tuesday, 0 Comments
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Junior Marketers: Ioka Valley Farm By Sabrina Damms, iBerkshires Staff
12:34PM / Wednesday, November 06, 2024 | |
McKinley Michalenko, Paisley Gilman and Sophia Cunningham got to visit the farm on Monday. HANCOCK, Mass. — St. Stanislaus Kostka School second-graders in Rebecca McConnell's class enthusiastically participated in our Junior Marketers Create an Ad series. We contacted Berkshire County teachers and asked their students to help create an ad for our sponsors and the community delivered. For the next 11 months, we will showcase ads made by our creative next generation. This month, students depicted life at the four-generation family-owned and operated Ioka Valley Farm at 3475 Hancock Road, specifically highlighting its winter season when they sell 0 Comments
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High Turnout as Williamstown Passes Local Tax ExemptionBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
09:19PM / Tuesday, November 05, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Sixty-nine percent of registered voters participated in the 2024 election in the Village Beautiful. But the total number of votes fell short of the 2020 total, when Joseph Biden defeated Donald Trump in the presidential race. Election workers late Tuesday evening were confirming the results of balloting that drew 3,506 ballots collected early, through the mail and on Tuesday at Williamstown Elementary School. In addition to the candidates for various offices and five statewide public questions, Williamstown voters had one local question on the ballot. No. 6 sought to confirm a vote at last May's annual town meeting to create a tax 0 Comments
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Williamstown Community Contra Dance | 11:25AM / Tuesday, November 05, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass — On Nov. 9, North Berkshire Community Dance will hold its monthly contra dance with calling by Andy Davis, and live music by Mary Cay Brass and Laurie Indenbaum. The dance will run from 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 to $20 suggested, and barter is also welcome. For more information, visit www.NorthBerkshireDance.org. According to a press release: Contra dancing is the contemporary face of a living tradition. The music is live, the dances are taught, and anyone is welcome, with or without a partner — people change 0 Comments
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Soldier On 5K Sunday in PittsfieldCommunity submission,
11:11AM / Tuesday, November 05, 2024 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. – Soldier On and the Berkshire Running Foundation will host the inaugural Soldier On 5K Walk/Run Sunday, Nov. 10 at the First Street Common in Pittsfield at 9 a.m. This event will help support the mission at Soldier On. Soldier On is a private nonprofit organization committed to ending veteran homelessness. Since 1994, the organization has been providing homeless veterans with transitional housing and supportive services. In 2010, Soldier On opened the first Gordon H. Mansfield Veterans Community, a permanent housing cooperative that provides formerly homeless veterans with safe, sustainable, affordable housing – transitioning them from 0 Comments
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Clark Art Hosts Talk By Poet and Scholar| 07:49AM / Tuesday, November 05, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday, Nov. 8 at 6 pm, the Clark Art Institute hosts poet, scholar, and Paris Review poetry editor Srikanth Reddy. This free event takes place in the Manton Research Center auditorium. A book signing follows the talk. According to a press release: Reddy joins novelist and the Clark's Research and Academic Program's Special Projects Coordinator Sara Houghteling to discuss his latest book, "The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures" (Wave Books, 2024). In it, Reddy refracts poems by the likes of Homer, Gertrude Stein, and Ronald Joconchnson through images such as Bruegel's Landscape with the Fall of 0 Comments
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Williams College Addressing New Bias IncidentsiBerkshires.com Staff,
10:03PM / Monday, November 04, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – Saying the college has to “resist hatred in all its forms,” the president of Williams Monday informed the campus community of recent bias incidents at the school. Maud Mandel sent a college-wide email to provide details on the incidents, talk about how affected students are being supported and point out that the college’s code of conduct will be brought to bear on any members of the student body found to be responsible. The recent incidents appear to be targeting both Jewish and Black students at the school. “In one case, a table painted with the U.S. and Israeli flags was placed outside on the Frosh Quad,” 0 Comments
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Clark Art Concert By Circuit Des Yeux| 07:57AM / Monday, November 04, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute presents the final concert in its Music in the Manton series on Thursday, Nov. 7, featuring the Circuit des Yeux, Bill Nace, and kite/wing. The concert takes place in the Manton Research Center auditorium at 6 pm. According to a press release: Circuit des Yeux is the stage name of Haley Fohr, a Chicago-based vocalist, composer, and singer-songwriter known for her four-octave voice and distinctive twelve-string guitar style. Her recent works include an original soundtrack for Charles Bryant’s silent film Salomé (1923), commissioned by Opera North, and her acclaimed 2021 album –io, featured on 0 Comments
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