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Williamstown Watching Washington, Not Yet Fretting Impact on ARPA FundsBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:49AM / Monday, May 29, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The town manager Friday was cautiously optimistic that a potential debt ceiling deal in Washington, D.C., that includes "claw back" provisions on American Rescue Plan Act funds would not impact the town's ability to utilize the remainder of $2.2 million in pandemic-related federal relief. "I'm not especially concerned," Robert Menicocci said. "I always put an asterisk beside something like that when we talk about anything legislative. You never know until it's in ink, when it's signed by everyone — whether local, state or federal legislation." The $350 billion ARPA passed in 2021 included funding 0 Comments
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Clark Art Hosts Conversation on 'Outsider Art'| 08:37AM / Friday, May 26, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday, June 4 at 2 pm, the Clark Art Institute hosts a conversation between scholars Kaira M. Cabañas and Raphael Koenig, who address art and mental health in a global context, in conjunction with the exhibition "Portals: The Visionary Architecture of Paul Goesch." The program takes place in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. Free; no registration is required. For more information, visit clarkart.edu/events. According to a press release: Cabañas and Koenig examine how the categories of "outsider art," patient art, and art brut relate to one another, and our 0 Comments
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Williamstown Police Looking into Weekend Break-InsBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
09:45AM / Thursday, May 25, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Police are looking into a spate of crimes that were reported last weekend. On Sunday, May 21, at about 10 a.m., police received a report of a break-in at Crisp Catering at 96 Water St., police files show. The caller reported that two males and one female broke into the business and stole "cases of alcohol," according to the police call log. The log indicates that there was video footage of the break-in. Video of what appeared to be surveillance footage was posted in a local Facebook group over the weekend with a request for help in identifying the people seen entering a local business and stealing a large quantity of wine. 0 Comments
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Williamstown Select Board Reorganizes for 2023-24 CycleBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:07AM / Thursday, May 25, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board on Monday quickly and unanimously voted to make Jeffrey Johnson its chair for the next year. It took a little more time to settle on a vice chair. Johnson, who is entering the third year of his first term on the five-person panel, abstained from a 4-0-1 vote to elevate him from vice chair to chair. "Thank you," Johnson said after he was the lone member whose name was placed into nomination for the position. "If I'm lucky enough to get the vote, what I plan to do is make sure all voices are heard and that everyone feels welcome, especially in terms of agenda items." In addition to running the 0 Comments
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MGRS Band to March in New Uniforms| 01:50PM / Wednesday, May 24, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Mount Greylock Regional School's band will be marching this Memorial Day weekend in new matching polos provided by the MGRS Friends of the Arts. The Mount Greylock Marching Mounties will be sporting brand new matching black polos this year as they march local parades. A gift from the MGRS Friends of the Arts, the new shirts mark a return to MGRS tradition, where the matching shirts or uniforms were in use for years before the pandemic. Every band, orchestra and chorus student at MGRS, in middle and high school, will be issued a polo to wear during performances, including orchestra and chorus. "We're very thankful that students 0 Comments
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Clark Art Hosts Williams Symposium and Hooding Ceremony| 11:10AM / Wednesday, May 24, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday, June 2 from 9 am–5:30 pm, the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art and the Clark Art Institute host public presentations by the program's graduating Masters students. The presentations, timed in conjunction with Williams' 2023 Commencement Weekend, address topics in the history of art, from abstraction in American landscape painting, to a study of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, to prurient fantasies in the marginalia of the Rutland Psalter. Each of the graduating students speaks on their topic for approximately twenty minutes, in groups of three or four, with a discussion following each set of 0 Comments
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Images Cinema to Show Ukrainian Film 'The Guide'| 08:00AM / Wednesday, May 24, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The "Stand With Ukraine Through Film" project is coming to Images Cinema. Images Cinema will host a special screening of "The Guide" on May 30 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available for purchase through their website (https://imagescinema.org/movie/the-guide-2014/), and patrons will contribute as they wish. Donations will be also accepted through QR codes, which will be placed in the lobby for moviegoers to scan, and donation jars will also be placed on-site. All event proceeds will go toward supporting Ukraine. Featured everywhere from Good Morning America (Community theaters come 0 Comments
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Williamstown Fire District Moving to Acquire New OPM for Station ProjectBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:37AM / Wednesday, May 24, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — More than two years after choosing an owner's project manager for its new station project, the Fire District is set to move forward with a new OPM. Prudential Committee Chair David Moresi mentioned the move during his report to the annual Fire District meeting on Tuesday at Williamstown Elementary School. "We are very pleased with the most recent [construction cost] estimates projected, as well as what we consider to be a significant cost savings by soliciting for a new OPM," Moresi said during his address to the meeting. After the half-hour meeting concluded, Moresi confirmed that the protracted negotiations with Colliers 0 Comments
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Clark Art Joins 2023 Blue Star Museum Initiative| 12:22PM / Tuesday, May 23, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute is one of more than 2,000 museums nationwide participating in the Blue Star Museums initiative, a program that provides free admission to active-duty U.S. military personnel and their families this summer. The 2023 program begins on Armed Forces Day, Saturday, May 20, 2023, and ends on Labor Day, Monday, September 4, 2023. "We look forward to welcoming U.S. military personnel and their families to the Clark this summer and to thanking them for their service and commitment," said Olivier Meslay, Hardymon Director of the Clark Art Institute. "We have been so inspired by our participation in the Blue 0 Comments
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Williamstown Fire District Meeting Set for TuesdayBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
04:47AM / Monday, May 22, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Fire District voters Tuesday will be asked to approve a $524,000 fiscal year 2024 operating budget and 10 other items on an 11-article warrant at the annual district meeting. The budget is up 6.3 percent from the $492,882 approved by district voters last spring for the current fiscal year. It comes up midway through the meeting, set for 7:30 p.m. in the gymnasium at Williamstown Elementary School. The two largest drivers of the bottom line increase are the maintenance and operation line item and management services. M&O is up by $10,000 from a year ago, from $55,000 to $65,000, a rise of 18 percent. Management services is up 0 Comments
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More Than 400 Compete in Steel Rail RacesiBerkshires.com Sports,
03:28PM / Sunday, May 21, 2023 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- Williamstown's Alex White was the first runner across the finish line at Sunday's MountainOne Steel Rail Marathon on the Ashuwilticook Trail. White maintained a 6 minute, 26 second per mile pace over the 26.2 mile course from Pittsfield to Adams and back. He reached the finish line in 2:48.42.41 to finish 5-1/2 minutes ahead of the rest of the other 72 runners who finished the event's marathon division. The fastest finisher in the marathon was Stephen Gulley of Billingham, the event's lone hand pedaler, who finished in 2:20:05.36. The first female runner across the finish line was Assonet's Hailey Desmarais 0 Comments
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Northern Berkshire Habitat for Humanity Raffling ShedStaff Reports ,
02:00PM / Sunday, May 21, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Northern Berkshire Habitat for Humanity's shed raffle has returned. The 8-by-10 garden shed, funded by an anonymous donor, built by the McCann Carpentry Program students, and decorated by the Northern Berkshire Habitat for Humanity construction crew, will be on display on Main Street in Williamstown, across from the end of Water Street, in front of the former Masonic Lodge at the end of May. All proceeds will go toward building the non-profit's next home. Raffle tickets may be purchased online until June 30 at go.rallyup.com/nbhfh23. Tickets cost $5 apiece, five for $20, and 14 for $40. The drawing will be held Saturday, July 0 Comments
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