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Williamstown Planning Board Again Takes Up Short-Term RentalsBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:15PM / Wednesday, August 21, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Planning Board on Tuesday discussed a bylaw proposal that might be ready for May's annual town meeting after bouncing back and forth between the Planning Board and Select Board the last couple of years. But one board member said the regulation needs a lot more work. Chair Peter Beck showed his colleagues a draft of a short-term rental bylaw that would allow unlimited rentals of a bedroom or an accessory-dwelling unit on a property where the owner resides and unlimited rentals of a primary home where the owner lives in an on-site ADU but limits the short-term rental of an entire primary dwelling unit to 90 days in a calendar year. His 0 Comments
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Berkshire Adult Baseball League Playoffs Continue Wednesday| 12:19PM / Tuesday, August 20, 2024 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- The Dalton Moneymakers and Tunnel City Freight will play Wednesday evening at Joe Wolfe Field in the rubber match of their Berkshire Adult Baseball League 33-and-over division semi-final. The Moneymakers last weekend rebounded from a 6-4 loss on Saturday to tie the best-of-three series at a game apiece with an 8-6 win. In the other half of the 33-year-old division bracket, the Berkshire Thunder edged the Pontoosuc Lake Monsters, 6-5, on Sunday at the American Legion Field in Dalton to take their semi-final series, 2-0. Jesus Lay went 3-for-3 with a triple, a double and a pair of RBIs in an 8-1 win for the Thunder in Game 1 of the series. In 0 Comments
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Williamstown ZBA Passes Art Museum ProjectBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:26AM / Tuesday, August 20, 2024 | |
A historical marker commemorates a French and Indian War fort on the site where Williams College plans its new art museum. The college has plans to update the marker, similar to the new marker explaining the Haystack Monument installed last year on campus. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Zoning Board of Appeals on Thursday approved plans for a new Williams College Art Museum on the former site of the Williams Inn. On a vote of 5-0, the board granted the college the two special permits it needed and finalized the body's development plan review, wrapping up a hearing that began in July. The decision cleared the way for the college to break ground on 0 Comments
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Incumbents Only Candidates for Mount Greylock School CommitteeStaff Reports, iBerkshires
03:40PM / Monday, August 19, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The composition of the Mount Greylock Regional School Committee likely will remain unchanged after November's election. Only three incumbent members of the seven-member panel returned nomination papers for the seats that will be on the ballot for voters in Lanesborough and Williamstown on Nov. 5. Lanesborough resident Ursula Maloy and Williamstown's Julia Bowen and Jose Constantine each will be seeking another four-year term on the committee. Bowen and Constantine each will be seeking a second full term on the School Committee after they were elected to the post in 2020. Maloy was appointed to fill 18 months of an unexpired 0 Comments
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Williamstown FY25 Tax Bills Up Slightly, Tax Rate Falls AgainBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:25AM / Friday, August 16, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The median property tax bill for fiscal year 2025 is expected to see its lowest year-to-year increase since 2019, the Select Board learned on Monday night. Assessor Christopher Lamarre laid out the tax ramifications of the FY25 town budget at the board's annual tax classification hearing. The tax levy, the total property tax collected by the town, is up just 1.3 percent from FY24. The levy is what the town needs to raise to cover the budget approved at the spring's annual town meeting. In FY24, the fiscal year that ended on June 30, the levy was $20.3 million; for FY25, that number is up to $20.6 million, the smallest year-to-year 0 Comments
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WCMA Awarded Grant To Support Energy Efficiency in New Building| 04:00PM / Thursday, August 15, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williams College Museum of Art has received a grant from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation to implement Direct Digital Controls (DDC) in the new museum building to optimize the energy efficiency of the building's heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system.
WCMA was one of 69 arts organizations across the country selected to receive a grant through the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative (FCI), which conferred a total of $3.3M this year. Dedicated to advancing climate action in the visual arts, FCI supports a wide range of transformative energy-efficiency and environmental sustainability projects that help arts organizations assess, develop, 0 Comments
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Clark Art Invites Visitors To Meet CATA Artists| 08:23AM / Thursday, August 15, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, Aug. 20 at 1 pm, the Clark Art Institute invites visitors to meet the CATA artists featured in "I Am a Part of Art" and participate in community art-making activities. The event takes place in Hunter Studio, located in the Lunder Center at Stone Hill. The annual exhibition presented by Community Access to the Arts (CATA) and the Clark, "I Am a Part of Art," celebrates the work of artists with disabilities. Spend the afternoon with the artists featured in the exhibit, learning and creating together as they share their approaches to making art. Materials will be available for visitors to experiment with the 0 Comments
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Williamstown Select Board Seeks Applicants to Fill VacancyBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:50AM / Thursday, August 15, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board on Monday issued a call for volunteers to occupy an upcoming vacancy on the five-person panel. By a unanimous vote, the board set a Sept. 9 deadline for residents to submit a "government engagement" form and any accompanying materials for consideration. The board then plans to hear from applicants in open session and potentially vote on a replacement at a special meeting on Sept. 16. The successful applicant will serve in the seat being vacated by Andrew Hogeland until the May annual town election, when the appointee will be able to run to serve the remaining year left on Hogeland's term, which expires in spring 0 Comments
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Waubeeka Plans Glowball Tournament for CharityBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
12:27PM / Wednesday, August 14, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Golfers will light up the night sky and support a charity that helps underserved communities around the world at Waubeeka Golf Links this week. Waubeeka will host a Glowball Tournament on Saturday, Aug. 17, from 7 to 10 p.m., to benefit Hope International, a Pennsylvania-based Christian charity dedicated to sharing "the hope of Christ as we provide biblically based training, savings services, and loans that restore dignity and break the cycle of poverty." Chris Kapiloff, who purchased the golf course earlier this year, has firsthand experience with Hope International, having picked and roasted coffee beans alongside residents of Rwanda on 0 Comments
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Clark Art: Spore Into Specimen Workshop| 08:20AM / Wednesday, August 14, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On August 17 at 1 pm, the Clark Art Institute's Andrea Puccio, director of the library, and Terri Boccia, collections development librarian, lead a tour of rare books in the Clark library's collection featuring mushrooms. The workshop takes place in the scholars' seminar room, located in the Manton Research Center. Jan Rolin from Mycoterra Farm (South Deerfield, Massachusetts) teaches participants about the mushroom lifecycle and how to harvest their own mushrooms using a grow-at-home kit. Learn how mushrooms can help us both environmentally and physically as you discover how to pick, store, and cook the mushrooms you 0 Comments
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Williamstown Planning Board Reduces Parking Lot for Art MuseumBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:23PM / Monday, August 12, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Williams College will be back before the Zoning Board of Appeals on Thursday for a development plan review for the school's planned art museum at the Field Park rotary. The ZBA last month held off on making any final determinations about the project, in part because it was waiting on a parking determination from the Planning Board, which was to have considered the college's parking plan on July 16 in a meeting that was canceled due to a blackout that impacted town hall. The Planning Board rescheduled its meeting for July 24 and, after a lengthy back and forth with college officials, accepted on a vote of 3-0 a parking plan that calls for 63 0 Comments
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Mass DEP Officials Visit Hoosic Riverbank Stabilization SiteBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
11:50AM / Sunday, August 11, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Conservation Commission on Thursday heard that the town is making progress on gaining approval for a riverbank stabilization plan near North Street. Community Development Director Andrew Groff told the panel that officials from the Department of Environmental Protection visited the portion of the Hoosic River where the town has needed to do an emergency stabilization in December 2019. Groff, who also is the town's conservation agent, said that DEP did a site visit on Tuesday as part of the appeal of a Con Comm decision on a proposed subdivision off Summer Street. While the state officials were in town, Groff invited them to make the short 0 Comments
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