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Williamstown's Johnson Stepping Down from Select BoardBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:21PM / Wednesday, August 13, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Jeffrey Johnson announced Monday that he will be stepping down from his seat on the Select Board. Johnson, citing health issues, told his colleagues at the end of the meeting that the decision to resign was necessary but mentioned that it made him angry. "The biggest people should know is I'm doing OK," the second-term Select Board member said. "But this is what I have to do. I've never quit anything. … I almost just swore for the first time in public because of how I feel about it." Johnson was elected to the five-member panel in 2021 after serving as an original member of what then was known as the 0 Comments
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Millers, Tunnel City Freight Claim BABL TitlesiBerkshires.com Sports,
03:48PM / Tuesday, August 12, 2025 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- Brian Rodriguez Sunday struck out eight hitters in four innings to lead the G.B. Millers to a 3-1 win and a 2-0 championship series sweep over the Berkshire Thunder in the 20-and-over division of the Berkshire Adult Baseball League. The Millers opened the series on Saturday with a 4-1 win over the Thunder at Memorial Field in Great Barrington. In the league's 33-and-over division, Tunnel City Freight swept the Dalton Moneymakers over the weekend by scores of 15-5 and 14-2. In the deciding game on Sunday at Joe Wolfe Field, Nolan Brassard went 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles and three RBIs to lead a 10-hit attack for Tunnel City. Jonathan 0 Comments
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Williamstown's Diversity Panel Mulls Independence From Select BoardBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
12:49PM / Monday, August 11, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The newly renamed READI Committee last week began discussing whether it should continue to operate as an advisory committee to the Select Board. In July, the Select Board looked at the diversity panel's recommendation for an updated charge for the body, which is going into its sixth year of operation. Among the recommendations the elected body accepted was a new name for the advisory committee, which, going forward, will be known as the Race, Equity, Accessibility, Diversity and Inclusion Committee. The Select Board at its July 28 meeting stopped short of adopting the full updated charge pitched by the members of READI. Select Board 0 Comments
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Clark Art Talk Explores Beauty of its Granite WallsBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:00PM / Sunday, August 10, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — When the Clark Art Institute opened its expanded campus more than a decade ago, the Tadao Ando-designed Clark Center won acclaim throughout the worlds of art and architecture. However, according to a retired Williams College professor, at least one glowing review may have understated the beauty of the project. "You approach the new Clark Center along smooth walls of red granite that can feel a bit daunting. But a reward is imminent," New York Times art critic Roberta Smith wrote in July 2014, going on to discuss everything on the other side of that wall. Bud Wobus offers a different perspective: The red granite walls outside are part of the
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Berkshires Creating with Crochet Coral Reef Project By Sabrina Damms, iBerkshires Staff
07:13AM / Saturday, August 09, 2025 | |
Williams College professor Amy Holzapfel shows a student at the event how to crochet. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — More than a dozen people of all ages were crocheting colorful versions of coral out of yarn on Friday at the Berkshire Art Center's Gallery Shop on North Street. Their creations will become part of the worldwide Crochet Coral Reef Project, which has attracted thousands of participants from around the world. Williams College in Williamstown has been collaborating with community members and local organizations on artists Christine and Margaret Wertheims' international project that will become part of a life-size installation. "What we're going
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Clark Art, Tanglewood Host Pulitzer Prize-Winning Art Critic| 03:00PM / Friday, August 08, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Presented in partnership with the Tanglewood Learning Institute and Tanglewood Music Center, the Clark Art Institute hosts an evening celebrating French music and art of the late nineteenth century with Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee on Tuesday, Aug. 12 at 7 pm. A limited number of tickets are still available for this event, which takes place in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. Fellows from the Tanglewood Music Center will present a performance of chamber music featuring Fauré's Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15 along with Ed Gazouleas, Director of the Tanglewood Music Center, 0 Comments
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Williamstown's Median Home Tax Bill Expected to Rise by 6 PercentBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
02:11PM / Friday, August 08, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The median-valued home in town can expect to see a 6.3 percent property tax increase in fiscal year 2026. That is one of the takeaways from a presentation the Select Board will hear on Monday evening from Principal Assessor Chris Lamarre. Lamarre will be in front of the board for its annual tax classification hearing. Each year, the board faces a number of decision points about how to distribute the tax levy in the town of 7,600. Historically, the Select Board has gone along with staff recommendations to not adopt a number of provisions in Massachusetts General Law, including the split tax rate, which would charge commercial property 0 Comments
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Williamstown Fin Comm Discusses Soaring Health Insurance CostBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:49AM / Friday, August 08, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — After a second straight year of hefty increases in the cost of health insurance under the Berkshire Health Group umbrella, the Williamstown Finance Committee is discussing the need for cost containment for the joint insurance purchase group. "At this point, we could be looking at another substantial increase for next year," Fin Comm member Melissa Cragg said at the panel's July 25 meeting. "Really, I think we're at the point where benefit design has to be the issue on the table. "Two-thirds of our [employee] base is unionized, so there's no reopening the contracts, probably, over this. But it's time for us to 0 Comments
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Weekend Outlook: Community Day, Performances and MoreBy Breanna Steele, iBerkshires Staff
12:08PM / Thursday, August 07, 2025 | |
Take a look at some of the events happening this weekend in the Berkshires including live performances and celebrations. Editor's Picks The Mount Community Day
2 Plunkett St, Lenox
Time: 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Enjoy a day of music and art with the family. There will be performances, baby goats, face painting, and more. You will also be able to step inside Edith Wharton's estate for free from 2 to 5 p.m. More information here. Zucchini Festival Downtown West Stockbridge Time: 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Depot and Center streets will be filled with vendors and zucchini-flavored activities, including a costume contest and weigh-off. There will also be children's games and activities and a 0 Comments
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Pittsfield Soap Box Derby Returns SaturdayCommunity submission,
10:15AM / Thursday, August 07, 2025 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- Westside Legends will host its fourth annual Westside Sweet G Super Soap Box Derby on Saturday, Aug. 9, from noon to 4 p.m. with a rain date of Aug. 10. Check-in for racers starts at 11 a.m. at the corner of Columbus Avenue and Robbins Avenue. The event features a day of activities for the whole family. There will be three race classes: kids from 6-12, kids from 13-17, and an adult class, ages 18 and older. Trophies will be presented in each division. The racers will “zoom” down Robbins Avenue, and the finish line will be at Southern Avenue. Inspired by soap box races in Pittsfield’s West Side during the 1960s, 0 Comments
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Clark Art Presents Talk on Bernice Abbott| 08:46AM / Thursday, August 07, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Wednesday, Aug. 13 at 1 pm, the Clark Art Institute presents Berenice Abbott Bonus Selection, the third in a summer series of free curatorial talks highlighting rarely exhibited aspects of the collection. This event takes place in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: American-born, Parisian-trained Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) is one of the most skillful and celebrated documentary photographers of the twentieth century. Grace Hanselman, curatorial assistant for works on paper, presents a sampling of portrait and architectural photographs that complement the works 0 Comments
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Berkshire County Public Housing Benefits From Internet Access Grants| 07:24AM / Thursday, August 07, 2025 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Healey-Driscoll administration and Massachusetts Technology Collaborative's (MassTech) Massachusetts Broadband Institute (MBI) awarded $31,548,018 to four internet service providers (ISPs) to increase internet access for affordable and public housing residents statewide. Aervivo Inc. was awarded $10,527,014 for 6,402 housing units. This uncludes 30 units in Pittsfield through the Beacon Residential Management Limited Partnership and 30 units in Williamstown through the Williamstown Housing Authority. Archtop Fiber LLC was awarded $481,955 for 164 housing units. Through the Great Barrington Housing Authority, 31 housing units in Great 0 Comments
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