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Williams Student Seeking Community Service in Vandalism IncidentBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:59AM / Monday, August 04, 2025 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — A Williams College student charged in a commencement day vandalism incident is asking Northern Berkshire District Court to agree to a community service plan. Liam Carey, 20, of Virginia, is scheduled to appear in court on Monday, Aug. 11, to answer to charges of vandalism, destruction of property less than $1,200, resisting arrest and trespass arising from the June 8 incident. Williamstown Police responded to the scene near the commencement grounds at about 7 a.m. to find that Carey had removed the American flag from a college-owned flag pole and replaced it with a Palestine flag. College officials told police that Carey had smashed a 0 Comments
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Pedal N Plod Biathlon Returns to Adams, CheshireiBerkshires.com Sports,
12:20PM / Sunday, August 03, 2025 | |
 ADAMS, Mass. -- Pittsfield's Kellie Harrington and Eric Harrington Sunday were the top two individuals when the Pedal N Plod biathlon returned to North Berkshire. Eric Harrington was the first across the finish line in the Iron Male division, completing the 4.4-mile run and 22-mile bicycling course in 1 hour, 20 minutes, 18.72 seconds. Kellie Harrington won the Iron Female division with a time of 1:35:05.13. Eric Harrington was just more than a minute ahead of runner-up Matt Rabasco (1:21:20.79). He was 31 seconds behind Rabasco at the end of the running portion and still trailed at the completion of the first 11-mile loop of the bike race but finished strong 0 Comments
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Clark Art Presents Outdoor Film Series| 11:48AM / Sunday, August 03, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — In celebration of "A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875–1945," the Clark Art Institute presents a selection of films celebrating women artists working in contemporary cinema. The three-part outdoor film series is held on Wednesdays in August. All films are free and screened outdoors at dusk on the Clark's Reflecting Pool lawn. Films in this series include: LADY BIRD August 6, 8:10 pm Lady Bird (2017), directed by Greta Gerwig, stars Saoirse Ronan as a headstrong teenager navigating her senior year of high school in Sacramento. A semiautobiographical coming-of-age story, the film captures 0 Comments
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Huttopia Berkshires Giving Guests a Glamping ExperienceBy Breanna Steele, iBerkshires Staff
08:36AM / Sunday, August 03, 2025 | |
The campground has a snack bar, cafe, lounge and camp store. HANCOCK, Mass. — The resort on Kittle Road has for decades attracted guests seeking to enjoy nature in the Berkshires — without too much roughing it. Its newest iteration — Huttopia Berkshires — opened to guests on July 9 offering tiny houses and tents and music and movies on 123 acres and with views of Jiminy Peak. Managers Emily and Joe Branca said Huttopia offers a way to get out into nature in types of lodging that offer different experiences. "We try to get guests out who might not otherwise really have access to natural areas, and provide that for them, but 0 Comments
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Q&A: Local Umpire Works Little League World Series International QualiferBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:21PM / Saturday, August 02, 2025 | |
Don Singleton in Warsaw, Poland, an hour by train from Kutno, with his favorite statue, nuclear physicist Nobel Prize-winner Maria Curie-Skladowska. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Don Singleton is well into his fourth decade behind the plate at youth and high school baseball games. But he still is learning as he goes. This summer, Singleton spent two weeks volunteering as an umpire at the Little League Baseball Europe-Africa Region Tournament in Kutno, Poland. That is where the representative from the Czech Republic earned a ticket to the World Series that gets underway on Aug. 13 in Williamsport, Pa. And it is where Singleton earned valuable 0 Comments
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Clark Art Presents Talk on Women Impressionists| 10:23AM / Friday, August 01, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Wednesday, Aug. 6 at 1 pm, the Clark Art Institute presents Women Impressionists, the second in a series of free curatorial talks highlighting rarely exhibited aspects of the Clark's noted works on paper collection. This event takes place in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper in the Manton Research Center. Esther Bell, deputy director and Robert and Martha Berman Lipp Chief Curator, shares a selection of prints and drawings by some of the leading women Impressionists, including the "three grand damesh" of Impressionism, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, and Marie Bracquemond. Bell's presentation includes several 0 Comments
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Clark Art Presents Lecture on Bernice Abbott| 03:32PM / Thursday, July 31, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday, Aug. 3, the Clark Art Institute presents a lecture on Berenice Abbott presented by photographer Hank O'Neal in conjunction with the Clark's exhibition "Berenice Abbott's Modern Lens." This free lecture takes place in the Clark's Manton Research Center auditorium at 2 pm. According to a press release: Few people knew Berenice Abbott better than fellow photographer Hank O'Neal, who worked with her for the last nineteen years of her life. In this lecture, learn more about the fascinating woman behind the images from a man who knew her not only as a towering figure in the history of photography, but 0 Comments
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WCMA Berkshires Satellite Reef Project | 06:00PM / Wednesday, July 30, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) and Williams College Gaudino Fund invite the community to take part in the Berkshires Satellite Reef Project. The next public Coral Crochet workshop will be held on Friday, Aug. 1, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Berkshire Art Center at the Brothership Building at 141 North St. in Pittsfield. The Berkshires Satellite Reef, a Gaudino Creative Residencies initiative, is part of the worldwide Crochet Coral Reef, a participatory art project that responds to climate change through the creation of crocheted coral reef sculptures. Conceived by artists Christine and Margaret Wertheim in collaboration with the Institute for
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Clark Art Free Discusion on Ground/Work| 11:17AM / Wednesday, July 30, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, Aug. 2 at 1 pm, the Clark Art Institute presents the next installment in the Ground/work 2025: A Close Look discussion series. Through guided conversation and reflection, participants consider how each artist's work is in active dialogue with the Clark's natural environment. According to a press release: On Aug. 2, a Clark educator leads a close examination and in-depth discussion around the outdoor sculpture "Bana Yiriw ni Shi Folow (Trees and Seeds of Life)" by artist Aboubakar Fofana. The artist, who has redefined and reinvigorated West African indigo dying techniques, includes spirals of handwoven, 0 Comments
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National Grid Pole Plan Sparks Discussion at Williamstown Select BoardBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:55PM / Tuesday, July 29, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A Torrey Woods Road family is asking National Grid to rework its plan to place five utility poles, one of which is slated for the town right-of-way in front of their 18th-century home. Kristy Lyn Edmunds and Roslyn Kim Warby were in front of the Select Board on Monday to challenge the utility's plan, which would put three new poles on the north side of Torrey Woods Road and two on the south side of the road to extend service about 530 feet to serve a new residence planned for 88 Torrey Woods Road. Edmunds and Warby questioned why one of the poles had to be placed in their front yard, only to have the planned line immediately cross the road to 0 Comments
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Clark Art Presents Lecture on Women Artists Painting the Nude| 04:27PM / Tuesday, July 29, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, Aug. 2, the Clark Art Institute presents "Corruptive…Destructive:" Women Artists Paint the Nude, 1875–1945, a lecture by author and art historian Rebecca Birrell. This free lecture is given in conjunction with the Clark's exhibition A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875–1945 and takes place in the Clark's Manton Research Center auditorium at 2 pm. According to a press release: In 1930, writing about her sister Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf describes how "it was held, until sixty years ago […] for a woman to look upon nakedness with the eye of an artist, 0 Comments
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MGRS Records To Be Destroyed on Aug. 22| 07:52AM / Tuesday, July 29, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — In accordance with state regulations, all temporary cumulative school and health records for students who have graduated from or left Mount Greylock Regional School during the 2017-2018 school year will be destroyed on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025. State regulations require that student records be destroyed seven years after the student graduates. However, the high school transcript that includes the grades for the four years of high school is maintained for 60 years following graduation. Any student who is interested in retrieving their records before destruction should contact the Counseling Office at (413)458-9582 0 Comments
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