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Williamstown Housing Trust Faces Decision on Family Selection Process for New DevelopmentBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:33AM / Wednesday, August 28, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The board of the Affordable Housing Trust may face a decision about whether it's more important to follow the practice of its non-profit partner or the dictates of a state housing program. Members of the board of Northern Berkshire Habitat for Humanity met with the trustees last week to explain a "mismatch" between its practice for selecting homeowners and the rules that govern the commonwealth's Subsidized Housing Inventory. The conflict came up because the AHT's intention is to have housing created on parcels it purchased back in 2015 count toward the town's inventory of affordable housing as classified by the state 0 Comments
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Millers, Thunder Win Berkshire Adult Baseball League Titles| 07:13AM / Tuesday, August 27, 2024 | |
 The Berkshire Thunder and GB Millers each swept their way to Berkshire Adult Baseball League titles over the weekend. At Wahconah Park on Sunday, the Thunder edged the Dalton Moneymakers, 6-5, to wrap up their best-of-three championship series in the 33-and-over division of the BABL. The Thunder, which won the opener, 6-1, on Saturday, got a strong pitching performance from three different players in Game 2. Joe Bateman, Cory Hillard and Seamus Morrison combined to allow just two earned runs in the title clincher. Hillard got the win with four innings of work in relief, scattering four hits and allowing all five runs -- three unearned as the Thunder committed 0 Comments
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Williamstown Planners Talks Housing Development, Water ProtectionBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:45PM / Monday, August 26, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Planning Board last week talked about balancing housing and land conservation in the rural parts of town and protecting the aquifer that supplies drinking water to most of the town's inhabitants. The bulk of the meeting was dedicated to discussing projects that the board wants to work on in the year ahead, including initiatives in a couple of areas — short-term rentals and housing lot sizes — that have been on the board's radar for years and one new initiative that was brought to the board by a member of town's staff. The meeting began with the approval of a subdivision on Water Street. The owner of the former 0 Comments
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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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