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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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Grega Throws Perfect Game in BABLiBerkshires.com Sports,
01:19PM / Wednesday, June 19, 2024 | |
 CHESHIRE, Mass. -- Will Grega struck out 13 in a perfect game on the mound Sunday to lead the Berkshire Bandits to a 3-0 win over the North County Kraken in a first-place battle in the Berkshire Adult Baseball League. The Bandits (5-1) took over sole possession of first place in the league's 20-and-over division over the Kracken (4-1) with the win. Grega helped his cause by going 1-for-3 with an RBI double and scoring a run on offense. Demitri Ayers was 1-for-1 with a pair of walks and a runs scored, and Abdiel Cotto singled and scored a run in the win. Jacob Hall took the loss on the mound for the Kraken with a complete-game effort, striking out eight and 0 Comments
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Clark Art Free Summer Hours, Transport, Events| 10:56AM / Wednesday, June 19, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Summer 2024 at the Clark Art Institute brings new opportunities to discover some of its special exhibitions, opportunities to visit for free, a host of free events and activities, and free bus transportation between Williamstown and North Adams.
Free Evening Hours The Clark is adding extended evening hours and free admission on select dates this summer. Beginning June 19, the Clark offers free admission from 5 to 9 pm on Wednesdays through Sept. 25, 2024. Visitors can enjoy free evening access to two of its special exhibitions, "Guillaume Lethière" and "Fragile Beauty: Treasures from the Corning Museum of Glass." The Museum Store 0 Comments
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Clark Art Performance By Garcia Peoples, Mountain Movers | 08:00AM / Wednesday, June 19, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute continues its Music on the Moltz Terrace concert series with a performance by Garcia Peoples on Sunday, June 23. Mountain Movers opens. The free concert takes place on the Lunder Center at Stone Hill's Moltz Terrace at 5 pm. According to a press release: The dynamic band Garcia Peoples, featuring guitarists and vocalists Tom Malach and Danny Arakaki, drummer Cesar Arakaki, bassists Andy Cush and Derek Spaldo, and keyboardist P.G. Six., was formed in Rutherford, New Jersey. The group takes inspiration from the improvisational and psychedelic jam bands of the 1960s. With a stash of live recordings accumulating 0 Comments
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On a IV-II Vote, Mount Greylock Keeps Latin ProgramBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:04AM / Wednesday, June 19, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A divided Mount Greylock Regional School Committee on Tuesday voted to restore the middle-high school's Latin program for the 2024-25 academic year and beyond. Six members of the committee attended the special meeting called last week to decide on whether to keep Mount Greylock a two-world language school or only offer Spanish to incoming seventh-graders starting in the fall. Steven Miller moved at the outset of Tuesday's session that the School Committee utilize more or less $66,000 from the committee's reserves to close a funding gap for fiscal year 2025 and commit to funding Latin until at least next year's seventh-graders have 0 Comments
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Williamstown Con Comm Clears Summer Street SubdivisionBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:18AM / Tuesday, June 18, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Conservation Commission last week gave its approval for a four-home subdivision on a town-owned parcel on Summer Street. Northern Berkshire Habitat for Humanity was before the board with a notice of intent to build a 260-foot road with four associated building lots on a parcel currently owned by the town's Affordable Housing Trust. The road and some of the home lots are planned in the buffer zone of a bordering vegetated wetland on the lot currently known as 0 Summer St. Habitat plans to build four single-family, one-story homes priced for residents making up to 60 percent of the area median income on the parcel. The non-profit hopes 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock Committee Accepts ARPA Offer, Sets Vote on LatinBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
07:18AM / Sunday, June 16, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee on Thursday moved forward with a proposal to fund a consultant with about $66,000 of Williamstown's American Rescue Plan Act funds. Meanwhile, it held off on a decision about whether to resuscitate the middle-high school's Latin program, scheduling a special meeting for Tuesday, June 18, to make that call. The 4-0-1 vote on the DEI consultant work came after the Select Board earlier in the week affirmed its support for the idea, which was brought to both the town and school district by parents concerned about the school district's policies about and response to "bias-based, hate, bullying 0 Comments
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Clark Highlights Work, Revolutionary Spirit of Underappreciated MasterBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
06:33AM / Saturday, June 15, 2024 | |
Clark Art Institute Deputy Director Esther Bell discusses the exhibition 'Guillaume Lethiere,' a partnership of the Clark and the Louvre in Paris. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Favorite artist of Napoleon's brother, director of the Academy of France in Rome, friend to the novelist Alexandre Dumas and revolutionary Marquis de Lafayette, Guillaume Lethiere was a prolific and influential painter who cast a long shadow over the art world in Paris in the first decades of the 19th century. Since then, Lethiere's own legacy largely has been overshadowed. This summer, the Clark Art Institute is doing its part to bring Lethiere to 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock Super Taking Principal Job in Great Barrington| 09:45AM / Friday, June 14, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — After years of leading school districts, Jason "Jake" McCandless is taking a step back to focus on a single school. Mount Greylock Regional's superintendent will take over as principal at W.E.B. Du Bois Regional Middle School in Great Barrington on July 1, according to a report in the Berkshire Edge. McCandless tendered his resignation last month from Mount Greylock after four years at the helm and just one year into his current contract. He had previously been superintendent of the Pittsfield Public Schools and in Lee. The Berkshire Edge reports the Berkshire Hills Regional School District announced the hiring via press 0 Comments
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Clark Art Celebrates Juneteenth | 08:02AM / Friday, June 14, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Wednesday, June 19, the Clark Art Institute celebrates Juneteenth with art-making and music. From 1 to 3 pm, drop in for a free art-making event inspired by contemporary artist David-Jeremiah's exhibition "I Drive Thee." According to a press release: In these works, the artist reflects on his experience of Black masculinity in America through large-format, semi-abstract sculptural reliefs and explores the symbolism of the Lamborghini sports car and the Spanish bullfight in contemplating questions of race—the first as a symbol of prestige and performance, the second as a spectacle of power and persecution. Make an 0 Comments
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