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Williamstown Fire District Won't Seek Retirement Exemption for ChiefBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:16PM / Thursday, June 27, 2024 | |
Prudential Committee members Lindsay Neathawk, left, David Moresi, Alex Steel and Joe Beverly meet at the Water Street fire station on Wednesday. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Prudential Committee on Wednesday voted 3-1 to not seek an exemption that would allow the fire chief to continue in his role past his 65th birthday. Fire Chief Craig Pedercini had asked the panel, which governs the district, to seek the exemption to prevent him from having to retire in March of next year. The five-member committee referred the question to a newly created Personnel Committee, which on Wednesday recommended that the district not seek the exemption to the state-mandated retirement 0 Comments
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County Residents Encouraged to Test Home Internet CapabilityBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:19AM / Wednesday, June 26, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Berkshire County residents have until July 20 to challenge the federal government's assessment of broadband availability at their home. The Berkshire Regional Planning Commission is the local authority providing access to the Broadband Equity and Deployment initiative, a federal program for funding Internet infrastructure. BEAD, as the program is known, allows individuals to test the available Internet speed where they live in order to ensure that availability is properly tracked by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. "The Challenge Process is a crucial step to ensure the accuracy of Internet availability 0 Comments
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Clark Art Presents Herbalist Workshop| 08:00AM / Tuesday, June 25, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — At 10 am on Saturday, June 29, the Clark Art Institute presents From Ground to Cup: Red Clover, Raspberry, Rose Hips, and Mugwort, the first in its three-part From Ground to Cup series. This free event takes place on the Clark's Michael Conforti Pavilion lawn at 10 am. Herbalist and healing practitioner Rebecca Guanzon explores the benefits of red clover, raspberry, rose hips, and mugwort in promoting hormonal balance. These herbs are particularly effective in alleviating hormonal fluctuations of individuals with estrogen dominance. At the end of the talk, participants can create a take-home tea blend with the herbs explored in the 0 Comments
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Williamstown Select Board Commits ARPA Funds to Mount Greylock School District ProjectBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:42AM / Tuesday, June 25, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board on Monday voted unanimously to allocate the rest of the town's American Rescue Plan Act funds toward a Mount Greylock Regional School District initiative to address bias-based incidents in the public schools. On a vote of 4-0, with Jeffrey Johnson absent, the board agreed to contribute about $66,000 — what remains uncommitted from the town's original ARPA grant of about $2 million — as requested by the Mount Greylock School Committee. Interim Superintendent Joseph Bergeron and School Committee Vice Chair Carolyn Greene, a Williamstown resident, attended the meeting at Town Hall to provide more details about a 0 Comments
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Garceau Earns All-America Honors at UMass BostoniBerkshires.com Sports,
06:08AM / Monday, June 24, 2024 | |
 Wahconah Regional High School graduate and UMass Boston sophomore Aryianna Garceau earned all-America honors in the 100-meter hurdles at May's NCAA Division III Championships. Garceau took sixth in the finals with a time of 14.05 seconds after qualifying for the finals with a time of 13.97, which broke a 35-year school record. In earning all-America honors, Garceau became the 20th Beacon to achieve that honor and the first since 2018. Earlier in May, Garceau was named to the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Association's all-Region team. Garceau was second in the 100 hurdles at the Division III New England Championships and helped UMass Boston to a 0 Comments
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Clark Art Presents Weekly Community Yoga| 08:05PM / Saturday, June 22, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute offers community yoga on Tuesdays in July and August. The dates: are July 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30 and August 6, 13, 20, and 27 at 10 am. The weekly program takes place on the Reflecting Pool Lawn. Led by certified instructor Natasha Judson of Tasha Yoga in Williamstown, community yoga is well-suited for both experienced practitioners and newcomers. Dress in comfortable clothing that does not restrict movement and bring a yoga mat. Free. For accessibility concerns, call 413 458 0524. Rain cancels this event. Cancellations will be posted on the Clark's website by 9 am the day of the class. 0 Comments
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Letter: Project 2025 is bigger than DobbsLetter to the Editor,
07:00PM / Saturday, June 22, 2024 | |
 To the Editor:
Please join Greylock Together and Indivisible chapters all across the country (13 in Massachusetts alone) on Sunday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Field Park in Williamstown on the two-year anniversary of the Dobbs decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Bring signs, hear speakers, leave with actions to take.
The Dobbs decision two years ago was the tip of the iceberg. Since then, 14 states have banned abortion entirely and many more have restricted access. MAGA Republicans have made clear this is only the beginning. Trump and his enablers winning in 2025 means those things can go national. As outlined in Project 2025, produced by The Heritage Foundation and a coalition of 100
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Update: Mount Greylock Wins ‘As Schools Match Wits' TitleBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
06:18AM / Saturday, June 22, 2024 | |
 Update: Mount Greylock won the championship with a 310-155 win over Longmeadow. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — If New England Public Media's "As Schools Match Wits" had questions about the meaning of perseverance or continuity, the Mount Greylock Mounties might ace those, too. Mount Greylock this spring advanced to the championship match of the quiz show's 63rd season, which will be telecast on Saturday at 7 p.m. And the Mounties did it with a team of four seniors that includes two three-year ASMW veterans and another competing in his second straight season. One of the three-year veterans, Caleb Low, agreed that the team's collective 0 Comments
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Berkshire Youth Soccer Holds Season-Ending TournamentCommunity submission,
09:21AM / Friday, June 21, 2024 | |
LENOX, Mass. -- Eight teams earned championships last weekend in the finals of the Berkshire County Youth Soccer League spring season. Teams of boys and girls in grades 5-6 and 7-8 participated in the season-ending tournament, organized by Donna Laroque and Nigel Gayle and hosted mostly at Lenox Memorial Middle and High School. One squad, the Williamstown Wildcats 12-and-under girls, is extending its season with a trip to this weekend's Massachusetts Tournament of Champions in Lancaster. Teams winning Berkshire County league titles on June 15 included: Under-12 Boys B Cup Final: GYAA 2, Williamstown Soccer Club 1 Girls B Cup Final: GYAA 2, Pittsfield Soccer 0 Comments
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Clark Art Presents Opera Lafayette and Ariana Wehr| 08:01AM / Friday, June 21, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Wednesday, June 26, the Clark Art Institute presents a free classical concert on the career and repertoire of the famous eighteenth-century soprano Minette by musicians of Opera Lafayette and soprano Arian Wehr. Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Guillaume Lethière, the free concert takes place on the Clark's reflecting pool lawn at 6 pm. According to a press release: One of the great stars of theatrical life in colonial Saint-Domingue in the 1780s, the soprano Minette was unlike almost all the actors and actresses of that time in that she was a woman of African descent. The title of Marie Chauvet's novel 0 Comments
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'Striking Out Cancer' Event Returns June 29 in PittsfieldBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires.com Sports
06:00AM / Thursday, June 20, 2024 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. – Four years in and still swinging for the fences, the Striking out Cancer in the Berkshires fund-raiser returns on Saturday, June 29, at Clapp Park. The all-day baseball and women’s softball games are the brainchild of city resident Joe DiCicco, who conceived the event as a way to raise money to support the Jimmy Fund for cancer research and patient care at Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. For $10, any player of any ability is welcome to join in the fun. Every participant receives a T-shirt commemorating the event. The action gets under way at 9 a.m. with a ceremonial first pitch by a child who benefited from the Jimmy 0 Comments
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Williamstown Man Pleads Guilty To Child Sexual Abuse Charges| 04:00PM / Wednesday, June 19, 2024 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — On Monday, June 17, Tom Nelson, 38 of Williamstown, pled guilty in Berkshire Superior Court to three charges related to child sexual abuse: Posing/Exhibiting a Child in the Nude Posing/Exhibiting a Child in a Sexual Act Dissemination of Matter Harmful to Minors, Second Offense According to a report from the District Attorney's Office, in 2021 the defendant utilized Omegle to make contact with an 11-year-old child. Through the connection on the Omegle, the defendant used predatory tactics to obtain graphic sexual content, on more than one platform, targeting an 11-year-old child. This is the second time the defendant has exhibited such predatory 0 Comments
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