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Teacher of the Month: Shawn BurdickBy Sabrina Damms, iBerkshires Staff
12:28PM / Saturday, September 30, 2023 | |
Teaching has always been a goal of Shawn Burdick but he spent years working on NASA projects before landing back at his alma mater Mount Greylock. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Mount Greylock Regional School physics teacher Shawn Burdick has been selected for the September Teacher of the Month. The Teacher of the Month series runs for the next eight months in partnership with Berkshire Community College. Burdick has been working as a teacher for 25 years but his path to this career wasn't a straight line. He worked in the physics research field for a number of years prior to becoming a teacher. He studied physics at Williams College and moved 0 Comments
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North Adams Man Arrested in Williamstown Armed RobberyBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
11:09AM / Thursday, September 28, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A North Adams man was arrested Wednesday night and charged with armed robbery in an incident at the Cumberland Farms on Main Street, police said in a news release. Joshua Piantoni, 41, of Whittesly Avenue, was held overnight and transported to court on Thursday morning, police said. At about 11:30 on Wednesday night, police received a call from the clerk at Cumberland Farms reporting, "the store had just been robbed at gunpoint and the suspect had fled down Main Street towards North Adams in a four-wheeled ATV," the WPD news release reads. The Williamstown Police notified North Adams, and police from both departments located a 0 Comments
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Clark Art Expands RX for Wellbeing Program| 11:04AM / Thursday, September 28, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute and Berkshire Medical Center are teaming to provide a new mental health service aimed at providing assistance to trauma victims. The Clark currently offers a county-wide program, Rx for Wellbeing at the Clark, through local mental health practitioners as a means of encouraging engagement with art as part of a therapeutic treatment plan for those dealing with issues like depression, anxiety, and social isolation. The new initiative with Berkshire Medical Center, Access to Wellbeing at the Clark, extends the program to offer victims of trauma opportunities to engage with art as a part of their recovery efforts. To date, the Rx 0 Comments
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GET LOUD: A Celebration of Banned Books| 03:50PM / Wednesday, September 27, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday, Oct. 1, the Williamstown League of Women Voters in collaboration with the David and Joyce Milne Public Library and the Friends of the Milne Library are presenting Get Loud: A Celebration of Banned Books. A group of nine authors, performers, teachers, and local individuals will read aloud selections from books currently or previously banned in US libraries and schools. Introducing them will be authors Karen Shepard and Jim Shepard, both on the English faculty of Williams College. This performance was initiated by the Williamstown League of Women Voters with the goal of bringing together organizations and individuals with a strong interest 0 Comments
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Harrington Earns League Honor at Stonehill CollegeiBerkshires.com Sports,
10:35AM / Wednesday, September 27, 2023 | |
 Pittsfield High School graduate Kellie Harrington last week was named the Northeast Conference Rookie of the Week for her performance as a first-year harrier at Stonehill College. Harrington placed 21st and helped the Skyhawks finish second as a team at her first collegiate race, a 5-kilometer event at the 41-team UMass Dartmouth Invitational. Harrington and her Stonehill teammates compete this week at the Paul Short Run at Lehigh University. In Colchester, Vt., on Friday, Abby Kittler (Pittsfield) and the St. Michael's cross country team hosted what is believed to be the only same-distance men's and women's event in the country, second annual the Equality 0 Comments
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Clark Art Talk on Posthistorical Memory and Colonial Representation| 08:08AM / Wednesday, September 27, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.— On Tuesday, Oct. 3, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program hosts a talk by Elena Shtromberg (University of Utah / Clark Fellow), who examines how contemporary video works have confronted the persistence of colonial illustrations circulated in European travel narratives. The free lecture takes place at 5:30 pm in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. In this talk, Shtromberg expands on media scholar Vilém Flusser's idea of posthistorical memory, wherein video functions as a new kind of memory. Works by artists José Alejandro Restrepo, Harun Farocki, and Tiago Sant'Ana employ 0 Comments
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Clark Art Screens 'Daughters of the Dust' | 08:00AM / Wednesday, September 27, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, Oct. 5, the Clark Art Institute continues its four-part film series examining the L.A. Rebellion, presented in celebration and anticipation of the Clark's 2023 Conference, "The Fetish A(r)t Work: African Objects in the Making of European Art History, 1500–1900." The Clark shows Daughters of the Dust at 6 pm in its auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: The first American feature directed by an African American woman to receive a general theatrical release, "Daughters of the Dust" (1991; 1 hour, 52 minutes) is set in 1902 and tells the story of a 0 Comments
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Williamstown Select Board Discusses Climate, Diversity PlansBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:14AM / Wednesday, September 27, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board on Monday heard presentations on work the town can do locally to address two of the most intractable global issues facing the nation: climate change and systemic racism. First, representatives from the town's Carbon Dioxide Lowering (COOL) Committee discussed initiatives that are underway and action that is needed to realize the net-zero carbon emission goal that town meeting endorsed in June 2021. Then, members of the Diversity, Inclusion and Racial Equity Advisory Committee the Select Board created in 2020 presented its recommendations for how the town can create a strategic plan to make Williamstown a more welcoming community 0 Comments
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Williamstown Crash Sends Two Cars into Bushes on Main StreetBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
12:57PM / Tuesday, September 26, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Two people were taken by ambulance from the scene of a two-car collision at the corner of Main Street and Luce Road on Monday afternoon, police said. According to a police report, Laura Martin of Shaftsbury, Vt., was exiting Luce Road and pulled into the path of a vehicle driving east on Main Street at 5:22 p.m. Police Officer John J. McConnell wrote that the 2014 Subaru driven by Suzanne Graver of Williamstown was traveling east on Main Street and was "unable to avoid [Martin's car], striking the front." Both Graver's vehicle and Martin's 2001 Ford went off the road and into a row of bushes at 147 Main St., 0 Comments
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Clark Art Presents Classical Music Performance | 12:00PM / Tuesday, September 26, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, Sept. 30 at 4 pm, the Clark Art Institute hosts a concert by the BlackBox Ensemble on its Fernández Terrace, located by its Reflecting Pool. "The Sound of Space Between Us" is a site-specific performance connecting sound and movement through physical space. According to a press release: In this performance, the Clark's grounds are used as a meeting place for music and dance to converse about our public place in the ecosystem and our private paths with(in) it. The musicians are choreographic agents, responding to each other, the dancers, and the audience in real time while stationed around the space, 0 Comments
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Williamstown Community Preschool Installs New Signage |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williamstown Community Preschool began sprucing up its new home by hiring local sign maker Lindsay Neathawk, owner of Neathawk Signs and Design, to create a 3D sign for the business.
Neathawk installed the sign late Monday afternoon that features multicolored hand prints from the children as the leaves of a tree poking out of the top. Underneath the name and address "a place to grow" is written. The children's hand prints were taken at the school and Neathawk then scanned them into her design programs to create the sign.
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