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Holiday Hours: Thanksgiving| 10:59AM / Monday, November 24, 2025 | |
Plymouth's statue of Massasoit, who was instrumental in Plymouth Colony's survival, looks out over the Plymouth Rock monument. Image via SeePlymouth.com. Thanksgiving will be observed on Thursday, Nov. 27. The day is a national holiday inspired by the first Thanksgiving dinner shared between the Pilgrims and Wampanoags in 1621 at Plymouth. The living history museum Plimoth Patuxet continues the tradition each year with a recreation of the event in which visitors can participate. Thanksgiving was first federally recognized by proclamation in 1863 by President Lincoln at the height of the Civil War. It did not become codified as a national holiday until 1941, when President
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Williamstown's READI Committee Talks About Town Budget PrioritiesBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:39PM / Sunday, November 23, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The town's diversity committee last week discussed how it might advocate for directing more municipal spending toward social services. The Racial Equity, Accessibility, Diversity and Inclusion Committee began its meeting with a report from Shana Dixon, who occupies the READI chair dedicated to a member of the Select Board. Dixon updated her colleagues on the Select Board's most recent meeting, when board members were encouraged to share their budget priorities for fiscal year 2027 with Town Manager Robert Menicocci. Dixon noted that she chose not to say much at the Nov. 10 Select Board meeting, but one week later, she told her READI 0 Comments
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Holiday Events and Tree Lightings 2025| 12:15PM / Saturday, November 22, 2025 | |
 This year's holiday gatherings and annual tree lightings are being announced Here's what we have so far in events below. If we're missing any, let us know at info@iBerkshires.com. Visit our Holiday Bazaars and Craft Fairs list for holiday craft fairs and markets. Christmas Tree Lightings Adams: There will be a tree lighting and a visit from Santa and Mrs. Claus on Sunday, Nov. 30 at the Adams Town Common. The celebration begins at 2, featuring hayrides, music by DJ Bizz, hot chocolate courtesy of The Daily Grind, candy from the Adams Lions Club, and a special visit from Santa and Mrs. Claus. The official tree lighting will take place at dusk, around 0 Comments
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Friday Front Porch Feature: A House Perfect for a RetreatBy Breanna Steele, iBerkshires Staff
05:53PM / Friday, November 21, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Are you looking for a spacious private retreat with exciting features. Then this is the home for you. Our Friday Front Porch is a weekly feature spotlighting attractive homes for sale in Berkshire County. This week, we are showcasing 1030 Simonds Road. This five-bedroom and five-bathroom post and beam home was built in 1986. The house is 4,102 square feet on a little over seven acres. The house comes with kitchen appliances like a cooktop and dishwasher. It also features an attached two-car garage, a sauna, fireplace, finished basement, wraparound deck and lots of natural light. We spoke to real estate agent Carrie Swift Heck with Compass Massachusetts
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Williamstown Projects Awarded $835K in State Funding| 10:52AM / Wednesday, November 19, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Town of Williamstown has received a total of $835,000 in state grants to advance major community improvement and tourism initiatives in town. The commonwealth has awarded $500,000 through the Community One Stop for Growth program to support the Main Street Corridor Improvements Project. The One Stop program funds local efforts across Massachusetts that promote housing, economic development, and community revitalization. Town Manager Robert Menicocci hinted at the grants at an October meeting. Revitalizing the Town Green The Williamstown project will improve bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure and bring ADA compliance 0 Comments
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Williamstown Planning Board Moves Forward With Mixed-Use ProposalBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:50AM / Tuesday, November 18, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Planning Board last week decided to move forward with an initiative to encourage mixed-use development, even though it is not quite sure how that initiative will be manifested in the zoning bylaw. Cory Campbell presented his colleagues with a 90-page report outlining how a "form-based" code could help spur development in the town's Limited Business and Planned Business zones. Campbell, who has been advocating for enabling mixed-use development since he was elected to the board in 2023, shared a proposal that would "encourage a mix of housing types and commercial opportunities, walkable experiences and wealth-building 0 Comments
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Clark Art, Images Screens 'Pickup On South Street'| 07:35AM / Monday, November 17, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, Nov. 20 at 6 pm, the Clark Art Institute, in collaboration with Images Cinema, continues its Noir Film Series with a screening of "Pickup on South Street" (1953). This program takes place in the Clark's Manton Research Center auditorium. Petty crook Skip McCoy (Richard Widmark) has his eyes fixed on the big score. When the cocky three-time convict picks the pocketbook of unsuspecting Candy (Jean Peters), he finds a more spectacular haul than he could have imagined: a strip of microfilm bearing confidential U.S. information. Tailed by manipulative Feds and Communist puppeteers, Skip and Candy find themselves pitting greed
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Clark Art Names Inaugural Curator of its Aso O. Tavitian Collection | 11:53AM / Sunday, November 16, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute announced that Lara Yeager-Crasselt has been appointed to serve as the first Aso O. Tavitian Curator of Early Modern European Painting and Sculpture. Yeager-Crasselt is currently the Curator and Department Head of European Painting and Sculpture at the Baltimore Museum of Art, where she oversees the museum's collection of fifteenth- through eighteenth-century painting and sculpture, including its research, exhibition, loans, acquisitions, and publication. Prior to her current role at the Baltimore Museum of Art, she held prestigious curatorial and research positions at The Leiden Collection in New York and at KU Leuven, Belgium, 0 Comments
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Local Man Wins Auction for Williamstown Parcel By Breanna Steele, iBerkshires Staff
04:38PM / Thursday, November 13, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The town of Williamstown auctioned a quarter-acre parcel on Wednesday. Four bidders came to the auction to bid on the 0.264-acre property on Harrison Avenue. The bidding started at $14,450, and the winning bid was $40,000 by Williamstown resident Gerard Smith, who is not sure what he will do with the property yet, but plans to clear the wooded lot first. "My intention would be to make improvements to the property. And I'm not sure what the scope of those improvements are just yet, but the market will tell me," Smith said. Smith said he usually purchases properties and adds value to them. The auction was held at Town Hall by Berkshire Auctions owner
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Lack of Economic Growth Factors Into Williamstown FY27 Budget TalksBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:29AM / Thursday, November 13, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A planned discussion on priorities for the town's fiscal year 2027 spending plan Monday quickly pivoted to the latest in a series of Town Hall conversations about anemic growth in the town's property tax base. The Select Board's agenda called for a discussion outlined in the bylaw for board members to share their priorities with the town manager as he or she enters budget season. The main takeaway at the end of an hour-long discussion is that the current board shares the top priority the board proposed for the FY25 budget: "limiting overall tax burden." Increasing pressure on property taxpayers was front and center after 0 Comments
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Clark Art Collage Club| 01:48PM / Wednesday, November 12, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute's monthly Collage Club meets again on Wednesday, Nov. 19. Visitors are welcome to drop in between 6–8 pm to make a creative collage. This free art-making program takes place in the Manton Research Center reading room. The Collage Club meets on the third Wednesday of each month in the colder months of the year, through March of 2026. Free. All materials provided; recommended for ages 16+. For accessibility questions, call 413 458 0524. 0 Comments
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Clark Art, Images Host Screening of 'Sweet Smell of Success'| 07:44AM / Wednesday, November 12, 2025 | |
 Clark Art, Images Host Screening of 'Sweet Smell of Success' WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. On Thursday, Nov. 13 at 6 pm, the Clark Art Institute, in collaboration with Images Cinema, continues its Noir Film Series with a screening of "Sweet Smell of Success." This program takes place in the Clark's Manton Research Center auditorium. In director Alexander Mackendrick's swift, cynical "Sweet Smell of Success" (1957), Burt Lancaster stars as the vicious Broadway gossip columnist J. J. Hunsecker, and Tony Curtis as Sidney Falco, the unprincipled press agent Hunsecker ropes into smearing the up-and-coming jazz musician who's romancing his 0 Comments
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