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SVMC Welcomes Jennifer R. LaChance to its Orthopedics Practice| 12:10PM / Tuesday, April 04, 2023 | |
 BENNINGTON, Vt. — Jennifer R. LaChance, MHS, PA-C, has joined Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) Orthopedics and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Putnam Physicians. LaChance will practice out of SVMC's Williamstown, Massachusetts location, Northern Berkshire Orthopedics. LaChance holds a bachelor's in biomolecular science from Central Connecticut State University. She earned a master's in health sciences and a physician assistant certificate from Duke University in North Carolina. LaChance has worked as a physician assistant at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, Mass. from 2017 to 2022. She has also worked at Lawrence and Memorial Medical Group 0 Comments
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Expect Warmer Temperatures and Showers this WeekStaff Reports ,
12:35PM / Monday, April 03, 2023 | |
 It will truly feel like spring this week with warmer weather and rain. Today, Monday, April 3, expect partly cloudy skies with temperatures in the high 50s, according to Accuweather. There will be more of the same Tuesday but expect some morning showers. Temperatures will drop into the high 40s on Wednesday, April 5. Expect cloudy skies and showers, according to Accuweather. Thursday is shaping up to be the warmest day of the week with a high of 68. But, expect some showers throughout the day. Friday will be cooler in the low 50s but expect sunny skies. Expect the same thing Saturday. Accuweather predicts Easter Sunday will be sunny with 0 Comments
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SVHC Weekly Health Update: March 31| 08:23AM / Monday, April 03, 2023 | |
 March 31, 2023 Tis the Season for Ticks Over 50% of ticks tested in Vermont are infected with B. burgdorferi, the bacteria that causes Lyme disease. It’s in your—and your family’s—best interest to take extra precautions during the height of
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Williamstown Fin Comm Pushes for Higher Free Cash ReservesBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:37AM / Monday, April 03, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Finance Committee on Wednesday generally was pleased to see a fiscal year 2024 town budget that included no projected increase in the property tax rate. But in the penultimate meeting of this year's budget review, the panel had one last request for the first-year town manager: Leave more money in the town's free cash account. Robert Menicocci presented a spending plan that sees a 3.7 percent increase in the town's operating budget from FY23. Thanks to a slight decrease in the town's assessment from the Northern Berkshire Vocational Regional School District (McCann Technical School) and a tentative 3.16 increase in the 0 Comments
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Williamstown Library Seeking ARPA Funds for Building StudyBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:00PM / Sunday, April 02, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Milne Public Library officials last week asked the Select Board to allocate American Rescue Plan Act funds to pay for an architect's analysis of the Main Street facility. The chairs of the library's Board of Trustees and Buildings and Grounds Committee each told the board that they want the town to follow through on what they saw as a commitment to share with the trustees the cost of a study by Bennington, Vt.'s, Centerline Architects. The study already is underway, and the trustees have preliminary results outlining time-sensitive and long-term repairs that need to be made to the 52-year-old former school building. MIssing from 0 Comments
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Williamstown Doughnut Striving for Laid-Back Vibe, Weed Humor By Sabrina Damms, iBerkshires Staff
06:42AM / Sunday, April 02, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Logan Maestri's has been working the last two years to bring the vision of his doughnut shop, Maestri's Munchies, to life. He wanted to create something that would make his daughters proud. "I definitely left a piece of me here and I hope people can recognize that. This truly is like my right hand or my left hand or something. It's a piece of me. That's really what I wanted. I'm not from here and Williamstown is an interesting path and I wanted my kids to feel like they had a name in this town," Maestri said last in his bakery in the Colonial Shopping Center. "And that's one of the 0 Comments
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Williams' Men's, Women's Lacrosse Beat Bates| 05:16PM / Saturday, April 01, 2023 | |
WLLLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Pearse Glavin Saturday scored five goals to lead the Williams College men's lacrosse team to an 18-6 win over Bates. Finlay MacKnight and Nick Bates each finished with two goals and an assist. Matthew Freitas made seven saves to earn the win in goal for Williams (5-3, 4-1 NESCAC), which goes to Tufts on Wednesday. Women's Lacrosse LEWISTON, Maine -- Claudia Russell scored five goals to lead Williams to a 13-9 win over Bates. Caroline Pratt stopped eight shots to earn the win in goal for Williams (8-1, 4-1), which goes to Babson on Wednesday. 0 Comments
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Williamstown on Track to Try Electronic Voting at Town MeetingBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
02:44PM / Friday, March 31, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board on Monday moved forward with a plan to have this May's annual town meeting try out an electronic vote-gathering device. The meeting began with a presentation from Peter Babel of Meridia Interactive Solutions, who explained how the company's interactive "clickers" could be used to expedite the voting process at town meeting. The five members of the board got to hold sample clickers, and Babel and Town Clerk Nicole Pedercini discussed how Williamstown could follow the path set by towns like nearby Lanesborough and implement electronic voting. Chair Hugh Daley provided some anecdotal evidence of the 0 Comments
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Clark Art Presents Lecture on 'Portals'| 12:33PM / Friday, March 31, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, April 8 at 2 pm, the Clark Art Institute hosts a lecture by exhibition curator Robert Wiesenberger on Paul Goesch, the subject of "Portals: The Visionary Architecture of Paul Goesch," on view in the Eugene V. Thaw Gallery for Works on Paper through June 11, 2023. The free talk is presented in the Clark’s auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: Goesch (1885–1940) produced one of the most inventive, peculiar, and poignant bodies of work to emerge from Weimar Germany. An artist and architect, he made both fanciful figurative drawings and visionary architectural 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock School Committee Advances Administration's Budget ProposalBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:02AM / Friday, March 31, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School District on Thursday advanced a budget that meets the cost expectations of governments in the district's member towns. On a vote of 6-1, the committee voted to approve a fiscal year 2024 spending plan that would result in a 3.16 percent increase in the assessment to Williamstown and a 3 percent increase in the assessment to Lanesborough. The budget represents a 4.6 percent increase in the district's operating budget, which is partially offset by an increase in state aid. But, as proposed by the district's administration earlier this month, the FY24 budget does not include funding for a 0 Comments
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Clark Art Screens 'Love and Anarchy'| 12:10PM / Thursday, March 30, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, March 30 at 6 pm, the Clark Art Institute screens "Love and Anarchy" in its auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. The showing is the third event in the Clark's five-part series, Manton 50th Anniversary Film Series: Films of 1973, featuring some of the great cinematic highlights of a remarkable year. According to a press release: A tragicomedy from director Lina Wertmuller, "Love and Anarchy" (1973; 2 hours, 2 minutes), plumbs the depths of fascist Italy from the perspective of a simple farm boy sent to kill Mussolini. Giancarlo Giannini won the best acting prize at the Cannes Film 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock School District's Draft Spending Plan Hits Towns' TargetBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:24AM / Thursday, March 30, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School District on Wednesday presented the town's Finance Committee with a draft budget that includes a 3.16 percent increase in the town's assessment for fiscal year 2024. That, in part, allowed the town manager to present a bottom line budget with no projected property tax rate increase for the coming fiscal year. The Mount Greylock School Committee on Thursday will have the final say on the school's FY24 spending plan. The draft budget presented on Wednesday included at least one reduction from FY23 that several members of the School Committee are on record opposing: a one-year pause on funding a director 0 Comments
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