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Dr. John Davis to Discuss Historic Deerfield at Williamstown Lecture| 03:21PM / Wednesday, April 23, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Dr. John Davis, President of Historic Deerfield, will present a lecture titled "Historic Deerfield: Local Legacy, National Relevance" on Saturday, April 26, at 11:00 a.m. The event will be held in the auditorium at Sweetwood, located at 1611 Cold Spring Road (Route 7) in Williamstown. The Williamstown Historical Museum (WHM) is presenting this free lecture. Dr. Davis’ presentation will address the connection between Williamstown and Deerfield through individuals and artifacts, the current state of Historic Deerfield, and its summer exhibitions: "Envisioning America: Deerfield Academy’s Collection of Paintings and Drawings" and
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Pianist Umi Garrett Performs at Clark Art Institute| 01:54PM / Wednesday, April 23, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute will present pianist Umi Garrett in concert on Sunday, April 27, at 2 p.m. in the Manton Research Center auditorium, as part of its Music in the Manton series. Garrett will perform works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sergei Prokofiev, J.S. Bach, Frédéric Chopin, Florence Price, Gabriel Kahane, and Stephen Dankner. Garrett has released a chamber album of Ludwig van Beethoven’s "Five Sonatas for Piano and Cello" with Emily Mantone. She is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at the Juilliard School and is a Collaborative Piano Fellow at the Yale School of Music. She also serves as a staff collaborative pianist at
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WCMA to Hold Community Forum on New Museum Building's Sustainability Goals| 08:13AM / Wednesday, April 23, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) will host a community forum regarding its new museum building project on Monday, April 28, at 6:00 p.m. The event will be held at the Williams Inn Ballroom. The forum will focus on the sustainability objectives of the new building, featuring presentations on the Williams College Sustainable Project Policy and the planned sustainable design features of the new WCMA. These features include the aim to meet the Living Building Challenge of the International Living Future Institute (ILFI) and the use of mass timber for the building's structural components. The event will also provide general 0 Comments
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Berkshire County Runners Take on Boston MarathoniBerkshires.com Sports,
10:26PM / Monday, April 21, 2025 | |
 BOSTON – Great Barrington’s Laura Stephen was the highest finishing Berkshire County resident at Monday’s Boston Marathon. Stephen ran a time of 3 hours, 40 minutes, 25 seconds to place 33rd in the women’s division for runners aged 60 to 64. At least a dozen Berkshire County residents were listed on the Boston Athletic Association’s finishers at the 129th running of the event. Sharon Lokedi of Kenya won the women’s race with a record-setting time of 2:17:22. Her fellow Kenyan, John Korir, won the men’s race in 2:04:45. The fastest Berkshire County finisher was Lenox Memorial graduate Ted Yee, now a student at 0 Comments
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Group to Discuss Impact of Rodenticides on Wildlife| 03:24PM / Monday, April 21, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Rescue Northern Berkshires Wildlife will hold a hybrid meeting on Wednesday, April 23, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Milne Public Library, located at 1095 Main St, Williamstown, MA 01267. Individuals can also register to join the meeting via Zoom. The event will focus on the impact of rodenticides on wildlife populations in Massachusetts. According to organizers, raptors, coyotes, and other predators that play a role in local ecosystems have been harmed or killed after consuming poisoned rodents. The meeting will include information about Mass Audubon’s Rescue Raptors program, which supports community efforts to reduce the use of 0 Comments
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Clark Art Poetry Readings | 07:59AM / Monday, April 21, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. On Friday, April 25 at 6 pm, the Clark Art Institute presents a dual poetry reading by Christine Kelly and Tan Lin in celebration of Kelly's debut collection of poems, "Allow Me to Slip on Something a Little More Hypocycloid" (PRROBLEM, 2025). This free event takes place in the Clark’s Manton Research Center auditorium. Poet and artist Christine Kelly is the author of "Allow Me to Slip on Something a Little More Hypocycloid" (PRROBLEM, 2025) and the chapbooks "Food Gas Lodging Liquid Solid" (Creative Writing Department, 2023), "Dopamine Agonist Destiny Forest" (Theme Can Print Editions, 2018), and 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock Hosts Argentinian Students for Exchange ProgramBy Jack Guerino, iBerkshires Staff
07:34AM / Sunday, April 20, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Mount Greylock Regional High School is currently hosting 36 students from La Cumbre, Argentina, for a two-week cultural exchange program. The program, organized by Mount Greylock Spanish Department, involves a variety of cultural and social events for the visiting students. "It is incredibly impactful on their academic experience," said Shannon Vigeant, Spanish teacher and Spanish Club adviser. "This allows them to experience the world in different ways, to connect to the language in a different way, and bring life to learning." Vigeant organized the program with her colleagues Joe Johnson and Amy Kirby, also Spanish 0 Comments
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Clark Art Screens Free Pastoral on Paper Film Series | 04:00PM / Saturday, April 19, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — This April and May, the Clark Art Institute hosts a series of films celebrating the Pastoral on Paper exhibition, with films that introduce some kind of conflict into peaceful landscapes in the rural United States, France, and Ireland. All films are free and screened in the Manton Research Center auditorium on select Thursdays at 6 pm. April 24
Days of Heaven (1978)
After accidentally killing his foreman at a steelworks in Chicago, laborer Bill, (Richard Gere) goes westward to the Texas plains with his girlfriend, Abby (Brooke Adams), and younger sister (Linda Manz). Posing as siblings, the trio find work in the wheat fields. To escape their life
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North County, Pittsfield Hold Egg ScramblesiBerkshires Staff,
02:34PM / Saturday, April 19, 2025 | |
Above, ready, set, go in Williamstown; below a mad scramble for eggs in Clarksburg. See more photos here. CLARKSBURG, Mass. — A number of egg scrambles were held in the Berkshires on Saturday ahead of Easter. The light spring ran didn't stop hundreds of children from darting across lawns and fields to search for treasure in the form of plastic eggs. Peter A. Cook VFW Post 9144 held its annual event at the town field named in memory of Cook, Clarskburg's only Vietnam War casualty. Children in four age categories ran, or toddled, across the field to grab brightly colored eggs. The returned to the pavilion for juice and 0 Comments
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Clark Art Institute to Air "Figaro" Broadcast| 11:51AM / Friday, April 18, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute will present a broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of "Figaro" on Saturday, April 26, at 1 p.m. in the Manton Research Center auditorium. The broadcast is part of "The Met: Live in HD" series and will feature the full opera performance, including backstage interviews and commentary. Joana Mallwitz will conduct the ensemble cast, which includes Michael Sumuel, Olga Kulchynska, Joshua Hopkins, Federica Lombardi, and Sun-Ly Pierce. Prior to the broadcast, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper will host a display of prints, drawings, and photographs related to the theme of
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Holiday Hours: Patriots Day| 11:00AM / Friday, April 18, 2025 | |
 Monday, April 21, is Patriots Day, a state holiday marking the anniversary of the Battle of Lexington and Concord that began the American Revolution. The day has been celebrated on the third Monday in April since 1969. This year mark's the 250th anniversary of what many consider the start of the American Revolution with the "shot heard round the world."
It was on the morning of April 20, 1775, that Paul Revere and other riders began the alert across and beyond Massachusetts Colony that troops were planning to advance from Boston to the towns of Lexington and Concord. They were to seize a cache of gunpowder and arms and capture revolutionaries Sam Adams and John
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Williamstown Select Board OKs LGBTQIA+ Petition, Pride FlagsBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
10:13AM / Friday, April 18, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board on Monday became the second elected body in the last week to express its support for the LGBTQIA+ community. A few days after the Mount Greylock Regional School Committee OK'd updated policies on sexual orientation and gender identity, the Select Board had a chance to weigh in on a town meeting article that seeks to affirm equal protection under the law in the town. Article 28 on the 30-article warrant for the May 22 meeting is titled "Resolution Declaring the Town of Williamstown a Community that Supports and Upholds the Rights of Transgender and Gender-Diverse People." The article, submitted as a citizens 5 Comments
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