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Williamstown's DIRE Committee Critical of Mount Greylock FY24 BudgetBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:42AM / Friday, April 07, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Members of the town's diversity committee Monday criticized Mount Greylock Regional School District officials for pulling a district-wide director of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging out of the fiscal year 2024 budget. Last week's School Committee vote was raised toward the end of the town's Diversity, Inclusion and Racial Equity Committee meeting. And it was clear that none of the four members present were happy about the district's strategy for containing costs to the taxpayers of Lanesborough and Williamstown. Andrew Art brought it up to the rest of the group, saying that he was "heart-broken" to see the School 0 Comments
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Williams Women's Lacrosse Wins Ninth Straight| 09:36AM / Thursday, April 06, 2023 | |
BABSON PARK, Mass. -- Isabel Arvelo scored four goals Wednesday to lead the Williams College women's lacrosse team to a 13-5 win over Babson. Caroline Pratt made nine saves to earn the win in goal for Williams (9-1), which hosts Hamilton on Tuesday. Men's Lacrosse MEDFORD, Mass. -- Tommy Swank scored four goals to lead Tufts to 14-11 win over Williams. Will Doran had a hat trick, and Matthew Freitas made 13 saves for Williams (5-4, 4-2 NESCAC), which goes to Babson on Saturday. Baseball WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Mikey Raby went 2-for-3 with a triple to lead Castleton State to a 6-5 win over Williams. James O'Connor went 2-for-4 with a double for 0 Comments
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Letter: Clickers, Crickets & Cliques in 01267Letter to the Editor,
05:00PM / Wednesday, April 05, 2023 | |
 To the Editor:
It's no secret that I feel strongly that Williamstown's town meeting is broken and should be largely replaced by the Australian ballot at the town election. I further suggest any expenditure greater than $50,000 be required to be approved by voters at the town election. The town election permits all the electorate to have a 12 or 13-hour window to be able go to the polling place and vote, as opposed to voting on any item at a largely unpredictable time during a much shorter town meeting. So, what is the Williamstown Board of Selectmen planning on doing? Spending an unpublicized amount of hard-earned taxpayer money on renting and buying clickers so a smaller number
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Mount Greylock Regional High School Talent Show | 02:00PM / Tuesday, April 04, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Mount Greylock Regional School's (MGRS) Friends of the Arts announce the return of the annual student/teacher talent show. Come see "Celebration of the Arts" on Saturday, April 8, 2023, at 7 p.m. in the school's auditorium at 1781 Cold Spring Road in Williamstown, preceded by an art show at 6:30 p.m. After a multiyear pause due to pandemic restrictions, the annual show returns to Mount Greylock. Concessions and a 50/50 raffle will be provided, with all proceeds benefiting MGRS arts. The Friends of the Arts is a parent volunteer organization that supports MGRS art events and programming. Funds 0 Comments
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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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