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Mount Greylock School Committee Taking Two Years to Find SuperintendentBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:56AM / Monday, August 26, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The last time the Mount Greylock Regional School District looked for a permanent superintendent, the search process lasted 20 days. This time, the School Committee wants to take two years. On Thursday, the committee decided on a vote of 6-0 to formally begin a search for a new superintendent in the fall of 2025 with hopes of having a top executive for the district in place by the start of the 2026-27 academic year. The committee formalized a course of action that first was developed in a July 11 in-person meeting with officials from the Massachusetts Association of School Committees. On Thursday, the committee reviewed some of the 0 Comments
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Clark Art Hosts Outdoor Classical Concert and Family Concert| 08:10AM / Sunday, August 25, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Over Labor Day weekend, The Knights orchestra returns to the Clark Art Institute to present two free concerts. The first is an outdoor concert on Saturday, Aug. 31 at 4 pm on the Fernández Terrace by the Clark's reflecting pool. The second is a family-friendly concert on Sunday, Sept. 1 at noon in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. Outdoor Concert
Saturday, Aug. 31, 4 pm
Focused on its string section, The Knights celebrate the Clark's major summer exhibition by playing a double violin concerto, Symphonie Concertante in G Major, by Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-George, a contemporary of painter
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Williamstown Fire District Counting Down to Construction Start DateBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:47PM / Saturday, August 24, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — If all goes according to plan, the town's new fire station will be under construction in less than a month. Wednesday's meeting of the fire district's Building Committee was filled with signs of progress. Plans for a Sept. 4 groundbreaking were mentioned, the building permit is in, the committee decided to scale back its monthly meeting schedule to a quarterly "check-in" and, perhaps the best news of all, the project continues to be on budget. The district's construction adviser, Bruce Decoteau, provided the committee with a number of updates in a brief session at the current fire house on Water Street. Among other 0 Comments
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CATA Artists Shine at Clark ExhibitBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
07:02AM / Saturday, August 24, 2024 | |
CATA program participants had the opportunity to express themselves through art at the event. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — In a gallery filled with vibrant art and art admirers at a world famous museum, Dalton's Katherine Butler meticulously works on her next creation. Is she creating a piece for CATA's next annual art show? "Maybe, I don't know yet," Butler says with a smile. This summer, Butler joined 200 other artists in Community Access to the Arts programs to contribute pieces for a show that ran at Pittsfield's Lichtenstein Center for the Arts through Tuesday and continues at the Clark Art Institute through Sept. 22. On 0 Comments
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Clark Art Talk: Views of Venice| 08:18AM / Friday, August 23, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Wednesday, Aug. 28 at 1 pm, the Clark Art Institute's Manton Study Center for Works on Paper hosts the final of this summer's Works on Paper Highlights Talks. William Satloff, graduate intern in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper, presents "Views of Venice." In the talk, he highlights prints of Venice's Piazza San Marco by American and British artists (1900–1930) and discusses the Renaissance architecture of that site. With masterpieces of graphic art from the fifteenth through the early twentieth century, the Clark's collection of prints, drawings, and photographs is a veritable treasure 0 Comments
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Final Phase of Williamstown's Cable Mills Set to Break GroundBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:46AM / Friday, August 23, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Three years after it received the final permitting, the third and final phase of the Cable Mills housing complex is on track to break ground later this year. "The construction fence just went up and we are scheduled to start before the end of the year," developer David Traggorth of Causeway Development said last week. When completed, the planned four-story, 54-unit apartment complex will bring to an end a multi-year project that began at the turn of the 21st century and started with the renovation of a 19th-century factory. The renovation of the historic mill building to create 61 apartments was Phase 1 of the project. Phase 2 0 Comments
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Williams Grad Rowing for USA in Paralympic GamesWilliams College Sports Information,
06:22AM / Thursday, August 22, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – A summer of international athletic competition in the City of Lights did not end when the Olympic torch was doused, and next week, once again, an alumnus of Williams College is going for the gold. 2023 graduate Ben Washburne is set to compete in the U.S. PR3 Mixed Four with Coxswain at Vaires-sur-Marne Stadium, site of the Paralympic Games’ rowing events. “I am incredibly proud to be representing Team USA at the Paralympics,” Washburne said recently. “The excitement has been building. My boat has been training hard for the last four months together in Boston and just traveled over to Italy for a training trip before heading 0 Comments
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Williamstown Planning Board Again Takes Up Short-Term RentalsBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:15PM / Wednesday, August 21, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Planning Board on Tuesday discussed a bylaw proposal that might be ready for May's annual town meeting after bouncing back and forth between the Planning Board and Select Board the last couple of years. But one board member said the regulation needs a lot more work. Chair Peter Beck showed his colleagues a draft of a short-term rental bylaw that would allow unlimited rentals of a bedroom or an accessory-dwelling unit on a property where the owner resides and unlimited rentals of a primary home where the owner lives in an on-site ADU but limits the short-term rental of an entire primary dwelling unit to 90 days in a calendar year. His 0 Comments
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Berkshire Adult Baseball League Playoffs Continue Wednesday| 12:19PM / Tuesday, August 20, 2024 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- The Dalton Moneymakers and Tunnel City Freight will play Wednesday evening at Joe Wolfe Field in the rubber match of their Berkshire Adult Baseball League 33-and-over division semi-final. The Moneymakers last weekend rebounded from a 6-4 loss on Saturday to tie the best-of-three series at a game apiece with an 8-6 win. In the other half of the 33-year-old division bracket, the Berkshire Thunder edged the Pontoosuc Lake Monsters, 6-5, on Sunday at the American Legion Field in Dalton to take their semi-final series, 2-0. Jesus Lay went 3-for-3 with a triple, a double and a pair of RBIs in an 8-1 win for the Thunder in Game 1 of the series. In 0 Comments
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Williamstown ZBA Passes Art Museum ProjectBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:26AM / Tuesday, August 20, 2024 | |
A historical marker commemorates a French and Indian War fort on the site where Williams College plans its new art museum. The college has plans to update the marker, similar to the new marker explaining the Haystack Monument installed last year on campus. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Zoning Board of Appeals on Thursday approved plans for a new Williams College Art Museum on the former site of the Williams Inn. On a vote of 5-0, the board granted the college the two special permits it needed and finalized the body's development plan review, wrapping up a hearing that began in July. The decision cleared the way for the college to break ground on 0 Comments
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Incumbents Only Candidates for Mount Greylock School CommitteeStaff Reports, iBerkshires
03:40PM / Monday, August 19, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The composition of the Mount Greylock Regional School Committee likely will remain unchanged after November's election. Only three incumbent members of the seven-member panel returned nomination papers for the seats that will be on the ballot for voters in Lanesborough and Williamstown on Nov. 5. Lanesborough resident Ursula Maloy and Williamstown's Julia Bowen and Jose Constantine each will be seeking another four-year term on the committee. Bowen and Constantine each will be seeking a second full term on the School Committee after they were elected to the post in 2020. Maloy was appointed to fill 18 months of an unexpired 0 Comments
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Williamstown FY25 Tax Bills Up Slightly, Tax Rate Falls AgainBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:25AM / Friday, August 16, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The median property tax bill for fiscal year 2025 is expected to see its lowest year-to-year increase since 2019, the Select Board learned on Monday night. Assessor Christopher Lamarre laid out the tax ramifications of the FY25 town budget at the board's annual tax classification hearing. The tax levy, the total property tax collected by the town, is up just 1.3 percent from FY24. The levy is what the town needs to raise to cover the budget approved at the spring's annual town meeting. In FY24, the fiscal year that ended on June 30, the levy was $20.3 million; for FY25, that number is up to $20.6 million, the smallest year-to-year 0 Comments
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