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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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Williams Softball Eliminated in NCAA Tournament| 08:10PM / Saturday, May 20, 2023 | |
SALISBURY, Md. -- The Salisbury University softball team Sunday scored five runs in the bottom of the fourth inning en route to a 6-1 win to end Williams' season in the NCAA Division III tournament. Bailey Burger-Moore hit a solo home run in the top of the fourth for Williams (24-17). 0 Comments
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Teacher of the Month: Jenna DickinsonBy Sabrina Damms, iBerkshires Staff
05:24AM / Saturday, May 20, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.— Williamstown Elementary School teacher Jenna Dickinson was selected for the May edition of our Teacher of the Month series, which will run for the next 12 months in partnership with Berkshire Community College. Dickinson grew up in Williamstown her whole life and attended Williamstown Elementary School. She has since returned to her alma mater to teach kindergarten. As soon as she entered the classroom to decorate earlier this year she felt like she was home, she said. Although this is her first year teaching kindergarten both parents and teacher have praised her for the work she has been doing. "She has 0 Comments
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Williams Softball Stays Alive at NCAAs Against Carpenter's Rams| 10:12PM / Friday, May 19, 2023 | |
SALISBURY, Md. – Kayla Chang went 3-for-4 at the plate and stole three bases to help the Williams College softball team Friday beat Framingham State, 9-4, in an elimination game at the NCAA Division III tournament. Sadie Leonard earned the win in the circle, striking out 12 and walking just two. Framingham State’s Gwen Carpenter, a graduate of Mount Everett, went 1-for-2 with an RBI in the loss. Carpenter finished her junior season with the Rams batting .393 with a team-best eight home runs. Williams fell into the elimination bracket on Friday morning with a loss to host Salisbury University. It will try again to beat Salisbury and stay alive in the 0 Comments
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Williamstown Fire District Gets OKs for Site Work on Station SiteBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
02:27PM / Friday, May 19, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Fire District this month received approval from two town bodies for the "early site work" planned in conjunction with the construction of a new station on Main Street. In separate sessions with the Conservation Commission and Zoning Board of Appeals, fire district officials got the OK for a "cut and fill" project that will raise the grade of the area planned for construction to bring it roughly to the same elevation as Main Street (Route 2). The Con Comm also conducted a site visit on the 562 Main St. property and approved the project's delineation of wetlands on the 3.7-acre property. That delegation will allow 0 Comments
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Clark Art Research and Academic Program Fellowships| 11:02AM / Friday, May 19, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program (RAP) announces the appointment of its 2023–2024 class of Fellows for summer 2023 and the upcoming academic year. The Clark is one of a small number of institutions globally that is both an art museum and a center for research, critical discussion, and higher education in the visual arts. Through RAP, the Clark hosts a residential fellowship program that welcomes top international scholars for periods ranging from two to nine months. To date, the community of Clark Fellows numbers more than 400 individuals hailing from thirty countries, forming a global network of scholars united 0 Comments
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Williams Softball Wins NCAA Tournament Opener| 10:18PM / Thursday, May 18, 2023 | |
SALISBURY, Md. -- Tayler Wise drove in a run in the bottom of the fifth inning Thursday to give the Williams College softball team a 1-0 win over UMass-Dartmouth in the NCAA Division III tournament. Sadie Leonard struck out 13, walked four and allowed just two hits to earn a complete-game win in the circle. Williams (23-15) faces Salisbury University on Friday morning. 0 Comments
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Prognostication, Recognition, Mistaken Identity at Williamstown Town MeetingBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
04:57PM / Thursday, May 18, 2023 | |
First-year Moderator Elisabeth Goodman and first-year Town Manager Robert Menicocci check out the results of a vote. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — There were some unresolved issues from Tuesday's annual town meeting. But the meeting members did find consensus on one point: They really don't like the Boston Celtics' chances of winning an 18th World Championship next month. In order to give residents a chance to try out the town's new electronic voting devices on a low-stakes question, meeting organizers devised a couple of sample questions to kick off the meeting. Members were asked whether the peak of nearby Mount Greylock is the highest 0 Comments
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Letter: Mobile, Trailer, Modular, Stick Built — What Is It?Letter to the Editor,
04:00PM / Thursday, May 18, 2023 | |
 To the Editor:
It was abundantly clear before, during, and after the Williamstown town meeting on Tuesday night, that there is an erroneous understanding of the distinction between mobile, manufactured, and modular homes resulting in most people confusing manufactured with modular.
The name "mobile homes" was a simple name change to make this type of home seem better and preferable to what they were originally called, "trailers." Trailers, like mobile homes, were living units built on a chassis with wheels making them easily movable over the highway.
As time progressed and construction methods and standards improved, in June of 1976, the name for trailers and mobile
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Williamstown Town Meeting Says Yes to Clickers, No to Manufactured HomesBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires.com Sports
12:56AM / Wednesday, May 17, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – Town meeting Tuesday rejected a bylaw amendment that would have removed barriers to manufactured housing, endorsed the use of electronic voting devices at the meeting and chose to take no action on a bylaw change that would have required dogs to be leashed in public areas. In a four-hour, 20-minute session at Mount Greylock Regional School, meeting members also passed the majority of the town's municipal financing articles without discussion and approved the Mount Greylock Regional School District budget after concerns were raised about the district's move to delay filling an administrative position focused on diversity, equity, inclusion and 0 Comments
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