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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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Williamstown Con Comm OKs Pedestrian Ramps for BridgeBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:47PM / Monday, July 28, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Conservation Commission on Thursday OK'd a state plan to build two accessible curb ramps on a sidewalk where Cold Spring Road (Routes 2 and 7) crosses Hemlock Brook. It is one of several pedestrian ramp reconstruction projects that the Massachusetts Department of Transportation has underway throughout the agency's District 1, which covers Berkshire County plus parts of Franklin and Hampden Counties. MassDOT was represented at last week's hearing by a senior project manager from Boston's Benesch Engineering. "Sometimes [the ramps] are at intersections," Sean Barry told the commissioners. "In other cases, like 0 Comments
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Clark Art Closes Outdoor Concert Series with Cedric Watson| 12:43PM / Friday, July 25, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute closes its series of free outdoor concerts with thematic connections to the Ground/work 2025 exhibition with a performance by Cedric Watson on Wednesday, July 30 at 6 pm on the Reflecting Pool Lawn. One of the brightest young talents to emerge in Cajun, Creole, and zydeco music over the last decade, Cedric Watson is a four-time Grammy-nominated fiddler, singer, accordionist, and songwriter. Although he comes from a very different part of Texas than Ground/work 2025 artist Hugh Hayden, he underscores how traditional, folk, and popular music in the United States is interwoven with the history of Black America. Free. Bring a 0 Comments
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Clark Art Illustrated Talk on Revolutionary Fashion in Works on Paper| 12:37PM / Thursday, July 24, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Wednesday, July 30 at 1 pm, the Clark Art Institute presents Revolutionary Fashion, the first in a new summer series of free curatorial talks highlighting rarely exhibited aspects of the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper's unique collection. This event takes place in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: In the wake of the French Revolution, fashion underwent radical shifts that mirrored the social and political upheaval of the era. Join curatorial assistant Sojeong Lim in looking at satirical prints and fashion plates dated c. 1795–1815, when scandalous 0 Comments
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Clark Art: Art in Conversation| 08:29AM / Wednesday, July 23, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.—This summer, the Clark Art Institute presents a free series of interactive Friday discussions, Art in Conversation. A Clark educator leads an interactive exploration of what makes a sculpture a sculpture, examining the artwork of sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) in dialogue with more traditional sculpture from the Clark's permanent collection. Discussions take place at 1 pm on July 25 and August 1, 8, 15, 22, and 29, and are free with gallery admission. Capacity is limited. Pick up a ticket at the Clark Center admissions desk, available on a first-come, first-served basis. Meet in the Museum Pavilion. For more information,
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Clark Art Presents Discussion on Ground/work Sculpture | 07:13AM / Wednesday, July 23, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. —On Saturday, July 26 at 1 pm, the Clark Art Institute presents the first installment in the Ground/work 2025: A Close Look discussion series. In these events, through guided conversation and reflection, participants consider how each artist's work is in active dialogue with the Clark's natural environment. On July 26, a Clark educator leads a close examination and in-depth discussion around the outdoor sculpture Gathering My Thoughts by British artist Laura Ellen Bacon. Using willow branches that are tied, looped, and woven together, Bacon's process evokes basket-weaving and the nest-building of birds. This event meets at the Lunder 0 Comments
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HooWRA Forest Bathing and Stream Splashing| 10:55AM / Tuesday, July 22, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, July 26, from 11:30am-12:30pm, join naturalist educator and HooRWA's director Arianna Alexsandra Collins along the Broad Brook Trail where we will practice elemental breathing technique, sensory awareness activities, and gentle play. This program is free and open to the public and brought to you by a grant from the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation. Register HERE. Meet at the Broad Brook Trailhead on the border of Williamstown & Pownal on White Oaks Road. Directions will be in the confirmation email. What to bring: footwear that can get wet, insect repellent, water bottle, portable sit-upon. 0 Comments
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Clark Art Family Artmaking Series| 08:23AM / Monday, July 21, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On select Thursdays this July and August, the Clark Art Institute presents a free series of family artmaking programs inspired by the sculptures of Isamu Noguchi. Check out the exhibition Isamu Noguchi: Landscapes of Time, and get inspired by Noguchi's floating lanterns, mini models, and sculptures of stone and steel. Drop by anytime between 1–4 pm to make your own light sculpture. Mix and match materials such as wire, reed, and rock to create a sculpture that can hold a little light. Bring home your "landscape of time" and see how your sculpture changes in different lighting. This series takes place on July 24 and 31 and August 7, 14,
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Williamstown Housing Trust Agrees on More Money for Subdivision InfrastructureBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:38AM / Monday, July 21, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The board of the town's Affordable Housing Trust on Wednesday decided to reallocate previously committed funds for a subdivision off Summer Street in order to keep the project on track. The trustees a couple of years ago pledged $120,000 in support of Northern Berkshire Habitat for Humanity's plan to put multiple single-family homes on a 1.75-acre parcel then owned by the trust. That $120,000 was to have been split between the first two phases of the project: putting in the infrastructure to support the subdivision and building the first home of what is now a planned four-home development. This week, Habitat President Keith Davis told 0 Comments
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