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Williamstown Finalizes Torrey Woods Road Utility Pole PlanBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:17AM / Thursday, August 21, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board Monday OK'd a plan for new utility poles on Torrey Woods Road after hearing that the residents who originally raised questions were satisfied with the final configuration. In a special, single-item meeting, the board wrapped up a public hearing that began in July. Last Monday, at the first continuation of the hearing, the board left with a sense that the property owners on both sides of the road that would be impacted were close to an agreement. This week, National Grid's Nicholas DeRosa was back before the board. "At the meeting last week, we discussed a possible third option to shift Pole 2 away from the 0 Comments
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Clark Art Presents Talk on J.M.W. Turner| 08:26AM / Wednesday, August 20, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Wednesday, Aug. 27, at 1 p.m., the Clark Art Institute will present a close look at the work of British artist J.M.W. Turner. Timed to coincide with the 250th anniversary of Turner's birth, this presentation concludes the summer's series of free curatorial talks highlighting rarely exhibited prints, drawings, and photographs from the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper's unique collection. This event takes place in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper, located in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) is beloved for his incomparable landscape watercolors. 0 Comments
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Williamstown Planners Dig into Idea of College Zoning OverlayBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:48AM / Wednesday, August 20, 2025 | |
The west side of Southworth Street was singled out during the Planning Board's discussion about distinguishing residential areas from the campus core. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Planning Board last week discussed an initiative to create an overlay district to address the reality of having a college campus in the middle of the General Residence zoning district. Samantha Page and Community Development Director Andrew Groff recently met with school officials, including Williams' associate vice president for campus planning and operations, to talk about what such an overlay district could look like and how it might streamline the evolution of the college 0 Comments
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Clark Art Disussion on Ground/Work 2025 Artist | 08:13AM / Tuesday, August 19, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, Aug. 23 at 1 pm, the Clark Art Institute presents the next installment in its Ground/work 2025: A Close Look discussion series. Through guided conversation and reflection, participants in these events consider how each artist's work is in active dialogue with the Clark's natural environment. On Aug. 23, a Clark educator leads a close examination and in-depth discussion around the outdoor sculpture the End by American artist Hugh Hayden. The artist, best known for his works in salvaged wood with protruding, preserved natural branches, transforms local hemlock trees into a massive upside-down ribcage, a form that suggests 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock School Committee Seeks Input on Superintendent HiringBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
06:00AM / Monday, August 18, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Mount Greylock Regional School Committee delayed the decision on promoting the interim superintendent to full-time superintendent and heard an update on the new incident response plan the district will roll out this fall. During its meeting on Thursday, Chair Julia Bowen suggested that the panel hold off on elevating Joe Bergeron to the superintendent post in order to allow more time for input from the community. Last month, the committee agreed to enter into negotiations with Bergeron, who took over as interim superintendent last year after serving as the district's assistant superintendent and business manager. No one at the meeting 0 Comments
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Williamstown Making Progress on Recreation InitiativesBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
08:30AM / Sunday, August 17, 2025 | |
Signage at Williamstown's new fitness pad includes a QR code to get more information on using the equipment. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — New recreation opportunities are popping up around town this summer with more to come, officials hope. On Monday, Town Manager Robert Menicocci told the Select Board that a new "fitness pad" is ready to go on Stetson Road, next to where a new skate park was permitted on Thursday. Meanwhile, at Williamstown Elementary School, two new fully accessible playgrounds are nearing completion with hopes that they will be open in time for the start of school on Sept. 2. That week also is targeted by Menicocci for a ribbon 0 Comments
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Williamstown, Residents Close in on Agreement about Utility PolesBy Stephen Dravis,
08:23AM / Saturday, August 16, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – The Select Board Monday heard what it hopes will be a compromise that will satisfy all parties concerned about a plan to place five new utility poles on Torrey Woods Road. National Grid came to the board, in its capacity as the town’s road commission, to seek approval to erect the new poles that will serve 88 Torrey Woods Road, where Anddie Chan-Patera and Anthony Patera are building a new home. Usually, hearings on such requests are uneventful, since the utility communicates with landowners in advance of the hearing to get “buy in” before going before the town board. But at a July 28 Select Board meeting, the residents of 150 0 Comments
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Friday Front Porch Feature: Millennium House in WilliamstownBy Breanna Steele, iBerkshires Staff
05:57PM / Friday, August 15, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Are you looking for a move-in ready home? Then this is the house for you. Our Friday Front Porch is a weekly feature spotlighting attractive homes for sale in Berkshire County. This week, we are showcasing a home at 1000 Simonds Road. This raised ranch, built in 2001, features three bedrooms, three bathrooms, and a two-car garage. It has 1,540 square feet on a half acre. It comes with granite countertops and stainless steel appliances, washer and dryer, hardwood floors and a back deck with Trex decking The price is set at $569,000. We spoke to Kim Burnham with Burnham and Gold Real Estate. What do you think makes this property 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock School Committee OKs Changes in Cultural Exchange Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
03:42PM / Friday, August 15, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.— Mount Greylock Regional School Committee approved some changes to the cultural exchange program that the high school’s Spanish teachers have developed with the St. Paul’s School in La Cumbre, Argentina. The program was originally conceived to have students from each school traveling to the other in alternating years. Given Mount Greylock’s greater size, it makes more sense if the Argentine students make the trip north every other year while Mount Greylock sends members of its senior class to La Cumbre every year, Joe Johnson, Mount Greylock world language teacher, explained. That means changing the eligibility of the Mount 0 Comments
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Clark Art Presents a Morning of Self-Care| 02:01PM / Thursday, August 14, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, Aug. 19, the Clark Art Institute presents a "Morning of Self-Care" with activities designed to engage and relax. From 9:30 am to 10:30 am, local yoga instructor Mary Edgerton leads the season's final free all-levels yoga session inspired by the sights and sounds of the Clark's natural landscape. Yoga takes place on the Reflecting Pool lawn and is free. Bring your own mat. Continue a morning of self-care and introspection indoors when the museum opens at 10 am. Visitors can pick up a Pause and Reflect Guide at the Clark Center admissions desk and embark on a contemplative engagement with art in the galleries, alone or 0 Comments
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Berkshire Wind Power Cooperative Awards Scholarships| 10:59AM / Thursday, August 14, 2025 | |
LUDLOW, Mass. — The Berkshire Wind Power Cooperative Corporation (BWPCC) has selected two students from the Lanesborough/Hancock area, one from the Mount Greylock Regional High School class of 2025 and one from the McCann Technical School class of 2025, to receive $1,000 scholarships. The scholarships are awarded to qualifying seniors at select schools in the Berkshires who are planning to attend either a two- or four-year college or trade school program. This is the third year of the BWPCC scholarship program. The BWPCC owns and operates the Berkshire Wind Power Project, a 12-turbine, 19.6-megawatt wind farm located on Brodie Mountain in Hancock and Lanesborough. 0 Comments
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Clark Art Presents Talk on America's Grand Tour | 10:20AM / Thursday, August 14, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Wednesday, Aug. 20 at 1 pm, the Clark Art Institute presents "America's Grand Tour," the fourth in a new summer series of free curatorial talks highlighting rarely exhibited prints, drawings, and photographs from the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper's unique collection. This event takes place in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper, located in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: In response to Europe's Grand Tour, nineteenth-century American writers, artists, and poets embarked on their own coming-of-age trek through New England's natural wonders and pastoral landscapes. 0 Comments
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