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Williamstown Calls Another Special Fire District Meeting, Truck Replacement on AgendaBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:37AM / Thursday, August 07, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — For the second time in two months, the Prudential Committee has called a special meeting of the Fire District. This time, it will be cleaning up a decision it made at the July 1 special meeting and reversing one district voters made in May 2024. At a special meeting of the Prudential Committee on Wednesday, the panel voted to set a special meeting for Tuesday, Sept. 2, at 4 p.m. at the Water Street station. Article 1 on the two-item warrant will ask meeting members to transfer $415,698 from free cash to put toward interest on bond anticipation notes related to the new Main Street station project. That is a payment the district thought 0 Comments
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Companion Corner: Orion at Second Chance Animal ShelterBy Breanna Steele, iBerkshires Staff
02:04PM / Wednesday, August 06, 2025 | |
 ARLINGTON, Vt. — Orion's had a hard live and he's been patiently waiting a very long time for his forever home. iBerkshire's Companion Corner is a weekly series spotlighting an animal in our local shelters that is ready to find a home. Orion is a 7- to 8-year-old pit bull mix who has been at Second Chance Animal Shelter since 2021. Shelter Manager Troy Quinn said Orion came to them from animal control after experiencing neglect. "He was found by animal control on a property, tied to a tree, no shelter, no food or water. He was severely emaciated, very sick, very skinny, very weak. Brought him in, he tested positive for heartworm," 0 Comments
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Clark Art Opening Lecture for 'Isamu Noguchi: Landscapes in Time'| 07:39AM / Tuesday, August 05, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, Aug. 9, at 11 am, the Clark Art Institute celebrates the opening of its newest exhibition "Isamu Noguchi: Landscapes of Time" with a free lecture. The Isamu Noguchi Museum Foundation and Garden Museum's Matthew Kirsch, curator and director of research, and Kate Wiener, curator, introduce the exhibition. The lecture takes place in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: Isamu Noguchi: Landscapes of Time explores Noguchi's fluid relationship with time—his ability to move between past, present, and future in his art. Through sculpture, design, and 0 Comments
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Clark Art Hosts Opportunity to Meet, Make Art With CATA| 12:05PM / Monday, August 04, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Wednesday, Aug. 6 at 1 pm, the Clark Art Institute invites visitors to meet the artists featured in the Community Access to the Arts (CATA) exhibition "I Am a Part of Art" that is currently on view at the Clark and participate in art-making activities along with them. The event takes place in the Hunter Studio, located in the Lunder Center at Stone Hill on the Clark's campus. Spend the afternoon with the artists featured in the exhibit, learning and creating together as they share their approaches to making art. Materials will be available for visitors to experiment with the same media used by the artists. "I Am a Part of 0 Comments
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Williams Student Seeking Community Service in Vandalism IncidentBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:59AM / Monday, August 04, 2025 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — A Williams College student charged in a commencement day vandalism incident is asking Northern Berkshire District Court to agree to a community service plan. Liam Carey, 20, of Virginia, is scheduled to appear in court on Monday, Aug. 11, to answer to charges of vandalism, destruction of property less than $1,200, resisting arrest and trespass arising from the June 8 incident. Williamstown Police responded to the scene near the commencement grounds at about 7 a.m. to find that Carey had removed the American flag from a college-owned flag pole and replaced it with a Palestine flag. College officials told police that Carey had smashed a 0 Comments
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Pedal N Plod Biathlon Returns to Adams, CheshireiBerkshires.com Sports,
12:20PM / Sunday, August 03, 2025 | |
 ADAMS, Mass. -- Pittsfield's Kellie Harrington and Eric Harrington Sunday were the top two individuals when the Pedal N Plod biathlon returned to North Berkshire. Eric Harrington was the first across the finish line in the Iron Male division, completing the 4.4-mile run and 22-mile bicycling course in 1 hour, 20 minutes, 18.72 seconds. Kellie Harrington won the Iron Female division with a time of 1:35:05.13. Eric Harrington was just more than a minute ahead of runner-up Matt Rabasco (1:21:20.79). He was 31 seconds behind Rabasco at the end of the running portion and still trailed at the completion of the first 11-mile loop of the bike race but finished strong 0 Comments
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Clark Art Presents Outdoor Film Series| 11:48AM / Sunday, August 03, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — In celebration of "A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875–1945," the Clark Art Institute presents a selection of films celebrating women artists working in contemporary cinema. The three-part outdoor film series is held on Wednesdays in August. All films are free and screened outdoors at dusk on the Clark's Reflecting Pool lawn. Films in this series include: LADY BIRD August 6, 8:10 pm Lady Bird (2017), directed by Greta Gerwig, stars Saoirse Ronan as a headstrong teenager navigating her senior year of high school in Sacramento. A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, the film captures 0 Comments
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Huttopia Berkshires Giving Guests a Glamping ExperienceBy Breanna Steele, iBerkshires Staff
08:36AM / Sunday, August 03, 2025 | |
The campground has a snack bar, cafe, lounge and camp store. HANCOCK, Mass. — The resort on Kittle Road has for decades attracted guests seeking to enjoy nature in the Berkshires — without too much roughing it. Its newest iteration — Huttopia Berkshires — opened to guests on July 9 offering tiny houses and tents and music and movies on 123 acres and with views of Jiminy Peak. Managers Emily and Joe Branca said Huttopia offers a way to get out into nature in types of lodging that offer different experiences. "We try to get guests out who might not otherwise really have access to natural areas, and provide that for them, but 0 Comments
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Q&A: Local Umpire Works Little League World Series International QualiferBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:21PM / Saturday, August 02, 2025 | |
Don Singleton in Warsaw, Poland, an hour by train from Kutno, with his favorite statue, nuclear physicist Nobel Prize-winner Maria Curie-Skladowska. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Don Singleton is well into his fourth decade behind the plate at youth and high school baseball games. But he still is learning as he goes. This summer, Singleton spent two weeks volunteering as an umpire at the Little League Baseball Europe-Africa Region Tournament in Kutno, Poland. That is where the representative from the Czech Republic earned a ticket to the World Series that gets underway on Aug. 13 in Williamsport, Pa. And it is where Singleton earned valuable 0 Comments
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Clark Art Presents Talk on Women Impressionists| 10:23AM / Friday, August 01, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Wednesday, Aug. 6 at 1 pm, the Clark Art Institute presents Women Impressionists, the second in a series of free curatorial talks highlighting rarely exhibited aspects of the Clark's noted works on paper collection. This event takes place in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper in the Manton Research Center. Esther Bell, deputy director and Robert and Martha Berman Lipp Chief Curator, shares a selection of prints and drawings by some of the leading women Impressionists, including the "three grand damesh" of Impressionism, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, and Marie Bracquemond. Bell's presentation includes several 0 Comments
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Clark Art Presents Lecture on Bernice Abbott| 03:32PM / Thursday, July 31, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday, Aug. 3, the Clark Art Institute presents a lecture on Berenice Abbott presented by photographer Hank O'Neal in conjunction with the Clark's exhibition "Berenice Abbott's Modern Lens." This free lecture takes place in the Clark's Manton Research Center auditorium at 2 pm. According to a press release: Few people knew Berenice Abbott better than fellow photographer Hank O'Neal, who worked with her for the last nineteen years of her life. In this lecture, learn more about the fascinating woman behind the images from a man who knew her not only as a towering figure in the history of photography, but 0 Comments
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WCMA Berkshires Satellite Reef Project | 06:00PM / Wednesday, July 30, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) and Williams College Gaudino Fund invite the community to take part in the Berkshires Satellite Reef Project. The next public Coral Crochet workshop will be held on Friday, Aug. 1, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Berkshire Art Center at the Brothership Building at 141 North St. in Pittsfield. The Berkshires Satellite Reef, a Gaudino Creative Residencies initiative, is part of the worldwide Crochet Coral Reef, a participatory art project that responds to climate change through the creation of crocheted coral reef sculptures. Conceived by artists Christine and Margaret Wertheim in collaboration with the Institute for
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