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Hogeland Stepping Down from Williamstown Select BoardBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
07:19AM / Saturday, August 10, 2024 | |
Andrew Hogeland with fellow board member Jane Patton in 2019. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — For nearly two decades, Andrew Hogeland has demonstrated a sense of civic duty and a commitment to his adopted hometown. It took an even greater commitment to lead him to end his time in town government. "I think people recognize that grandchildren are very valuable things," Hogeland said Friday when asked about the reaction he's received to Thursday's announcement that he is resigning mid-term from the Select Board. Hogeland posted Thursday on Facebook that he and his wife, Anne, are relocating to Connecticut later this year to be closer to 0 Comments
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Clark Art: Outdoor Screening of 'My Life as a Zucchini'| 07:55AM / Friday, August 09, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Aug. 14 at 8:10 pm, the Clark Art Institute presents a free outdoor screening of "My Life as a Zucchini" (2016) as part of its summer series of films that resonate with the themes of the exhibition Guillaume Lethière. According to a press release: After his mother's sudden death, Zucchini is befriended by a police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home, filled with other orphans his age. Brought to life through memorable character designs and expressive stop-motion animation, this story soars with laughter, sorrow, and joy, and stands as a testament to the resilience of the human heart. (Rated PG-13. Run 0 Comments
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Berkshire Ajax Soccer Club Sets Tryouts| 03:24PM / Thursday, August 08, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Tryouts for the Berkshire Ajax Soccer Club take place on Sunday, Aug. 11, for children born between 2006 and 2012. Girls' tryouts are from 9:15 to 10:30 a.m. and boys' are from 10:45 to noon. Location is the Farley-Lamb Field at the Weston Field complex. Register at berkshireajax.com; fill out forms and waivers. Any questions, contact Mike Russo at 413-441-6127 or trusso@williams.edu. 0 Comments
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Clark Art Presents the Modern Opera 'Rome is Falling'| 08:17AM / Wednesday, August 07, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Aug. 10, the Clark Art Institute presents "Rome is Falling," a modern opera composed by American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*) member Doug Balliett. The event takes place at 4 pm in the Clark’s auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: Rome was one of the greatest civilizations in the world; yet, like all empires, it fell. Why, and how? The story is a mixture of politics, betrayal, immigration, religion, climate, pandemic, natural disaster, xenophobia, and bad luck (in short, everything human, and everything we face today). Rome is Falling is a zany lesson on the absurdity of what 0 Comments
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Williamstown Board of Health Seeks Amicable End to DisputeBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:52AM / Wednesday, August 07, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Board of Health on Monday discussed how to communicate with a resident about an order to deal with a nuisance on their Simonds Road property. Jean Rand stormed out of the Town Hall meeting room after a brief and contentious appearance before the board regarding her home at 1033 Simonds Road. The property had been subject to a condemnation order from the Health Department in September 2022. And while most of the issues at the home have been resolved, one item remains: a pile of wood that the town believes is a nuisance and health hazard. Health Inspector Ruth Russell gave the board a timeline of town's involvement with the property, 0 Comments
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Clark Art Talks Highlighting Works on Paper| 08:43AM / Sunday, August 04, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — This August, the Clark Art Institute's Manton Study Center for Works on Paper hosts a series of new talks celebrating the two-hundredth birthday anniversaries of several artists in the Clark's collection, including Jean-Léon Gérôme, Adolphe-Joseph-Thomas Monticelli, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Jozef Israëls, and William Morris Hunt. Each week, discover a unique selection of rarely exhibited works on paper with a member of the curatorial department. Offered Wednesdays in August from 1:00–1:30 pm. Topics and presenters include: August 7: "Many Happy Returns!" with Alexis Goodin, associate 0 Comments
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Williamstown Library Committee Looks to Advance RenovationsBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:05PM / Saturday, August 03, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Milne Library's Building and Grounds Committee on Thursday recommended that the director move ahead with several repairs to the building. On a vote of 4-0, the committee recommended that the Board of Trustees accept a bid from Bennington, Vt.'s, Vermont Roofing to fix the roof over the bathrooms in the front of the library. And in a separate 4-0 vote, the building committee told Director Angela Zimmerman to issue a request for proposals to redo windows and doors, two major issues raised in a report the Trustees commissioned from Bennington's Centerline Architects. In June of last year, the trustees learned that the Centerline 0 Comments
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Clark Art Presents Works on Paper Talk| 11:08AM / Friday, August 02, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Wednesday, August 7 at 1 pm, the Clark Art Institute's Associate Curator Alexis Goodin highlights a selection of drawings and prints in the first of this summer's Works on Paper Highlights Talks, "Many Happy Returns!" She discusses the events of 1824 and pays particular attention to the early opportunities and influences that shaped the careers of the artists under discussion. The next Works on Paper Highlights Talk, "Curator's Choice," takes place on Wednesday, Aug. 14 and is presented by Esther Bell, deputy director and Robert and Martha Berman Lipp Chief Curator. Free. Capacity is limited. Seating is 0 Comments
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Clark Art Screens 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'| 04:37PM / Thursday, August 01, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Aug. 7 at 8:20 pm, the Clark Art Institute presents a free outdoor screening of "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" (1964) as part of its summer series of films that resonate with the themes of the exhibition Guillaume Lethière. According to a press release: "In The Umbrellas of Cherbourg," Catherine Deneuve plays an umbrella shop owner's delicate daughter, glowing with first love for handsome garage mechanic Nino Castelnuovo. When the boy is shipped off to fight in Algeria, the two lovers must grow up quickly. Told entirely through lilting songs by composer Michel Legrand, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg is one of the most 0 Comments
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Williams' Kirshe, U.S. Women Earn Historic Bronze Medal| 01:50PM / Tuesday, July 30, 2024 | |
 In dramatic fashion Tuesday, the U.S. women's rugby sevens and Williams College graduate Kristi Kirshe beat Australia, 14-12, to win the bronze medal at the Paris Olympic Games. Alex Sedrick made a run from deep in the Americans' defensive zone for a try with time expired to erase a 12-7Si deficit against the favored Aussies. Kirshe, who dominated Team USA's quarter-final victory on Monday to get to the medal round, started and played the length of Tuesday's semi-final loss and the third-place win. After Australia, the 2016 gold medalist, was shocked by Canada in the semi-finals, the Wallabies jumped out to a 7-0 lead in the first two minutes of the 0 Comments
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Kirshe, U.S. Rugby Drop to Bronze Medal Game| 09:59AM / Tuesday, July 30, 2024 | |
Williams College alum Kristi Kirshe and the U.S. women's rugby sevens team will play for a bronze medal at 1 p.m. (EDT) on Tuesday after falling to defending gold medalist New Zealand, 24-12, in the semi-finals on Monday. Kirshe made two big plays at the end of each half in the semis. At the end of the first half, she made a tackle out of bounds on a New Zealand player just outside the try zone in extra time to keep it a two-point game. Team USA had scored first on a try from Alev Kelter with an assist from Kirshe to make it 5-0. New Zealand answered a minute later and made its conversion to take a 7-5 lead, which stood until half-time. The Black Birds 0 Comments
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Williams Alum Kirshe Leads U.S. Rugby to Olympic Semi-FinalsiBerkshires.com Sports,
04:10PM / Monday, July 29, 2024 | |
 Williams College alum Kristi Kirshe and the U.S. women's rugby sevens team are one win away from securing a medal at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France. On Monday afternoon (EDT), the Eagles came from behind to beat Great Britain, 17-7, in the Olympic quarter-finals. And Kirshe was key in the win. Great Britain, which eliminated the Americans at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, took a 7-0 lead early and led, 7-5, at half-time. But Kirshe scored a try off the second-half restart to give the Eagles a 10-7 lead, and the conversion made it 12-7. Then, Kirshe assited on Sammy Sullivan's try to stretch the lead to 10 points. NBC commentator Rupert 0 Comments
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