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Clark Art Presents Summer Book Club | 08:41AM / Monday, June 19, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, June 27 at 7 pm, the Clark Art Institute hosts its annual summer book club in the Clark Center lower level. Book lovers and Clark staff members discuss a book related to the summer's exhibition, "Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth." This year's book selection is "So Much Longing in So Little Space: The Art of Edvard Munch," a personal meditation on Munch's life and work by Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård. The evening begins with a brief tour of "Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth;" wine and conversation follow. Tickets $10 ($8 members). Advance registration required; capacity is limited. 0 Comments
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Juneteenth Message: 'Let's Be We the People'iBerkshires.com Staff,
05:50AM / Monday, June 19, 2023 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Berkshire County residents this weekend gathered to recognize the nation's shameful past, celebrate the accomplishments of present-day artists and scholars and commit to the struggle to build a better future. Juneteenth festivals were held in North Adams on Saturday and Pittsfield on Sunday, giving attendees an opportunity to think about the continuing legacy of slavery in America while marking June 19, 1865, when enslavement officially came to an end for Black residents of Texas, the last state to see emancipation take place. North Adams' inaugural Juneteenth event, "I Am Afro: A Street Fair for All the People," was organized 0 Comments
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Manufactured Home Talk Dominates Williamstown Planning BoardBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:37AM / Monday, June 19, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Following a familiar pattern, the second Planning Board meeting of its 2023-24 cycle was dominated by an issue the board hoped to have settled at the 2023 annual town meeting. The board Tuesday heard both support and criticism for its proposed bylaw amendment that would have allowed the placement of a manufactured home on any parcel where a single-family "stick built" home currently can be erected in town. The proposal was narrowly rejected at May's annual town meeting, where the majority of participants favored the zoning change, but it failed to achieve the two-thirds majority needed for passage. At a May 23 meeting to 0 Comments
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Williamstown Select Board Contributes Town Funds to July 4 FireworksBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:47AM / Friday, June 16, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board agreed Monday to provide at least $1,000 and up to $2,500 of town funds to support the fireworks display at Taconic Golf Club on July 4. Board member Jane Patton, who manages the club, brought a funding request to the body and argued that the pyrotechnic display is an opportunity to build community that should be supported by taxpayer dollars. "I've had a number of people ask me why the town doesn't cover the cost," Patton said. "It is a town event meant to bring the town together. I think it's reasonable to say people enjoy it, and it's been quite successful as a town event." Patton 0 Comments
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Father's Day Activities at the Clark| 08:02AM / Tuesday, June 13, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday, June 18 the Clark Art will host art-making Father's Day activities offered from 1 to 4 pm and are free with gallery admission. Special gallery guides are available for visitors at the Clark's Admissions desk to provide a self-guided walk-through of the galleries focused on fathers and father figures. After getting inspired by the collection, visitors can make a card or bookmark to share with the special people in their lives. Family programs at the Clark are supported by Allen & Company. 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock School Committee Approves Contracts, Looks to Lanesborough Town MeetingBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:59PM / Monday, June 12, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee last week unanimously approved three-year contracts with the district's three collective bargaining units. The votes, which came after an hour-long executive session to discuss the final terms, were contingent on ratification by the district's teachers, support staff and cafeteria workers. Pending that ratification, no details of the contracts, which run through fiscal year 2026, were discussed during open session. But on Monday, Superintendent Jason McCandless said the financial terms in the deals were not unanticipated. "The contracts approved are all accounted for within the budget 0 Comments
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Clark Art Book Talk: 'Daughter of Spies'| 08:43AM / Monday, June 12, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, June 17 at 2 pm, the Clark Art Institute hosts a book talk by Western Massachusetts' own Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop. Alsop is the author of "Daughter of Spies: Wartime Secrets, Family Lies," a memoir that traces the shape of her parents' marriage from romantic wartime courtship in England to a life in Cold War Washington, D.C. The event takes place in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. Alsop's book tells a timely story about the pioneering women who helped win the war, the difficult choices they faced in postwar America, and the powerful effects of secrets. Winthrop speaks with 0 Comments
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Class of '23 Says, 'So Long,' to Mount GreylockBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:24PM / Saturday, June 10, 2023 | |
The class gives a standing ovation to its selected 'Teacher of the Year,' math instructor and boys basketball coach Robert Thistle. See more photos here. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — After leaving one more cheer in a gym where his teams inspired so many cheers, Mount Greylock Regional School's Teacher of the Year Saturday said, "So long," to the Class of 2023. Robert Thistle, a math teacher and boys basketball coach at the school, offered his valedictory remarks after receiving the annual honor bestowed on a member of the middle-high school faculty by the graduating seniors. "If I have to graduate from Mount Greylock at some point, what 0 Comments
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Williamstown DIRE Committee Talks About Need to Fund Training in TownBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
04:56AM / Saturday, June 10, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The diversity committee this week discussed the need for the town to make a long-term financial commitment to training for employees and members of town boards and committees in the area of diversity, equity and inclusion. "There has to be, especially around budgeting, when we talk about this work, some consistency," Noah Smalls of the Diversity, Inclusion and Racial Equity Committee said at its Monday meeting. "I'm struggling to imagine a scenario where you put aside money for training, and it's really a one-off, it doesn't come back in some form annually or quarterly or there's some line item in each department to work 0 Comments
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WCMA Announces 'Construct Your Own Meaning' Summer Series| 09:26AM / Friday, June 09, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williams College Museum of Art will present "Construct Your Own Meaning," a series of summer programs that invites the community to interpret WCMA's permanent collection installation Remixing the Hall from their unique perspectives. Borrowing a term from DJ culture, "Remixing" describes WCMA curators' process of selecting objects from the collection that highlight multivalent correspondences between form and meaning in art. "By giving a diverse set of people outside the museum the agency and platform to share their personal connections to artwork in our collection, we are broadening who the museum is for," said Roz
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Clark Art Airs Live Production of 'Die Zauberflote'| 08:51AM / Thursday, June 08, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Metropolitan Opera's broadcast production of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) airs at the Clark Art Institute on Sunday, June 11 at 12:55 pm in the final installment of the 2022–23 season of The Met: Live in HD. The award-winning series of live, high-definition cinema simulcasts features the full live performance along with backstage interviews and commentary. The Clark broadcasts the opera in its auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: One of opera's most beloved works receives its first new Met staging in nineteen years—a daring vision by renowned English director 0 Comments
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Williamstown Board of Health Reduces Number of Tobacco LicensesBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:46AM / Tuesday, June 06, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – The Board of Health on Monday morning decided to reduce the town's number of tobacco sales licenses by one and tentatively agreed to hold a public hearing in July to overhaul the town's regulations on those sales. In a unanimous vote at the end of its monthly meeting, three members of the five-person board decided to trim the number of tobacco licenses from seven to six, reflecting the fact that only six of the available licenses currently are in use. It also discussed a more long-term strategy of inserting into the town's health code language that "retires" licenses in the future if and when they go out of use. That was 0 Comments
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