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Williamstown Select Board Chair: Vote Coming on Gaza ResolutionBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires.com Sports
05:30AM / Tuesday, March 12, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – The chair of the Select Board Monday put his colleagues on notice that a resolution on a ceasefire in Gaza will show up on the body’s agenda “sooner than later.” After a third straight meeting dominated by public comments from residents urging adoption of such a resolution, Jeffrey Johnson indicated that the time is coming to put an amended resolution up to a vote. “I didn't come here to be a witness,” Jonson said. “I came here to be a participant. And what I mean by that is I think enough people have spoken to where I'm compelled to have a vote -- not tonight. I'm going to consult with the town 0 Comments
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Clark Art Presents Gallery Talk With Emerging Art Historians| 08:00AM / Monday, March 11, 2024 | |
 WILLAIMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday, March 15, enjoy a new look at old favorites in the Clark's permanent collection. In Fresh Takes, a Williams College graduate student shares their take on an object with the perspective of new scholarship. Tours begin in the Museum Pavilion at noon. No registration is required. 0 Comments
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Williamstown Scarborough Salomon Flynt Award Request For Nominations| 03:15PM / Sunday, March 10, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Scarborough Salomon Flynt Community Service Award Committee is accepting nominations for its ninth annual award. The Scarborough Salomon Flynt Award recognizes a person's, persons', or civic group's demonstrated dedication, excellence, and integrity in community service in order to make Williamstown a better place. Nominators should provide a narrative of accomplishments in support of their nominee. With many deserving people nominated in a given year, much of the Committee’s decision-making is based on the substance of the reasons presented in the nomination. The award is a result of the merger of the Faith R. 0 Comments
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Williamstown's Town Flag a Topic of DiscussionBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
11:57AM / Sunday, March 10, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Nine years after its adoption, the town flag continues to come under scrutiny. And one of the people involved in its creation agrees that if someone wants to change the flag, they should. The flag adopted by the Select Board in January 2015 includes imagery of three Berkshire hills in the background, trees, the year of the town's charter (1765), the town's name, a furrowed field, the words "Culture, Education, Nature," and, at its center, a depiction of the 1753 House, a replica of a colonial-era structure that was built on Field Park for the town's bicentennial. There are only two known copies of the flag in existence: 0 Comments
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Last-Minute Goal Lifts Williams Men's Lacrosse at Bates| 07:51PM / Saturday, March 09, 2024 | |
LEWISTON, Maine -- Pearse Glavin scored with 10 seconds left Saturday to give the Williams College men's lacrosse team a 15-14 win over Bates. Glavin scored four goals, and Calvin Caputo had a hat trick in the win. Matt Wetmore stopped seven shots to earn the win in goal for Williams (2-1, 1-0 NESCAC). Women's Lacrosse WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Claudia Russell scored four goals Saturday to lead Williams to an 11-0 win over Bates. Anj Raman and Caroline Pratt split time in goal for Williams, combining to stop eight shots. Williams (3-0, 1-0), which has outscored its opponents, 40-5, goes to Wesleyan on Saturday. 0 Comments
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Williamstown Theatre Festival Leadership: 'We Have to Give It a Shot'By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
07:26AM / Saturday, March 09, 2024 | |
Interim Artistic Director Jenny Gersten talks about the 2024 season as WTF Board Vice Chair Joe Finnegan looks on. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williamstown Theatre Festival schedule announced earlier this week features a return to the main stage for the first time since 2019. But that was not the main emphasis from the leadership team that held a community forum Thursday morning on the Nikos Stage at Williams College's '62 Center for Theatre and Dance. Rather than talking about a return to what the festival was before the pandemic shutdown, the goal is to build back a better, more sustainable and, by necessity, different WTF as it celebrates 70 years in the 0 Comments
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Williams Men's Basketball Falls in NCAA Tourney| 10:43PM / Friday, March 08, 2024 | |
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- The Christopher Newport men's basketball team Friday outscored Williams, 30-21, in the second half to earn a 60-49 win in the third round of the NCAA Division III tournament. Dalton's Brandon Roughley led Williams with 11 points. Alex Lee scored nine, and Nate Karren had a game-high 16 rebounds. Williams finishes the season with a record of 23-7. 0 Comments
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Daniel Pearl Scholarship Open for Applications| 08:00AM / Friday, March 08, 2024 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Applications are available for the 22nd annual Daniel Pearl Berkshire Scholarship. The $2,000 award is given in memory of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter kidnapped and killed in Pakistan early in 2002. Pearl earlier worked in the Berkshires at The North Adams Transcript and The Berkshire Eagle. While Pearl's career was in journalism, he was also a gifted musician, trained as a classical violinist. He played guitar and mandolin as well, and while living in the Berkshires he performed in a bluegrass band. For this reason, the award is given to a student who intends to study and pursue a career in either journalism or 0 Comments
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Clark Art Presents Lecture on Artist | 08:00AM / Friday, March 08, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, March 12 at 5:30 pm, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program hosts "A Less Binary Art History is Possible," a lecture by Kirstin Ringelberg (Elon University / The Kaleta A. Doolin Foundation Fellow). In this free talk, Ringelberg addresses the once-celebrated (and occasionally reviled) but now largely unknown Belle Époque Parisian artist Madeleine Lemaire (1845–1928). This free lecture takes place in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: Working in a wide variety of genres as a "specialty," Lemaire was sometimes 0 Comments
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Williams College Museum Envisions Natural Setting, Sustainability FocusStaff Reports,
05:32PM / Thursday, March 07, 2024 | |
The college art museum has spent the last century in Lawrence Hall. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The new Williams College Museum of Art will be an airy cluster of programming spaces surrounding a central hub for gatherings. The single-story structure is designed to harmonize with the natural setting across from Field Park, on the former site of the Williams Inn. It is projected to open in 2027, in line with the museum's centennial. The design by Brooklyn-based firm SO–IL were released on Thursday. A public forum about the museum building project will be held at on Monday, March 11, at 6 p.m. at the new Williams Inn on Spring Street. The 0 Comments
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Clark Arts Screens 'The Princess Bride'| 08:02AM / Thursday, March 07, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. On Thursday, March 14, the Clark Art Institute hosts a free screening of the 1987 film "The Princess Bride" as part of the Williamstown Public Library 150th Anniversary Film Series. The Clark shows the film at 6 pm in its auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: Rob Reiner's film version of William Goldman's charming novel pits true love against inconceivable odds. A boy home sick from school grudgingly allows his grandfather to read him a dusty storybook—which is how we meet the innocent Buttercup, who is about to marry the nefarious Prince Humperdinck although her heart belongs to 0 Comments
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As Nomination Deadline Nears, No Contested Elections in WilliamstownBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:42AM / Thursday, March 07, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — With three weeks left to submit nomination papers for May's town election, no contested races are shaping up for the ballot as of Wednesday afternoon. For the lone seat on the five-member Select Board, current Chair Jeffrey Johnson is the only person to take out papers, the town clerk reported. Johnson was elected to his initial three-year term on the body in May 2021. Samantha Page has taken out nominating papers for the one five-year Planning Board seat on the ballot. Last May, Ben Greenfield was elected to fill the final year of an unexpired term after a resignation. Laila Boucher has taken out papers to retain her seat on the Northern 0 Comments
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