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Clark Art Hosts Book Launch With Artist | 11:35AM / Thursday, August 29, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, Sept. 3 at 6 pm, the Clark Art Institute hosts the book launch for "Emma Kohlmann: Watercolors," featuring a conversation between Kohlmann and her sister, Charlotte, followed by a book signing. This free event takes place in the Hunter Studio, located in the Lunder Center at Stone Hill. The monograph features hundreds of works from 2011 to 2021 created using sumi-e ink washes and other techniques to capture the contours and nuances of embodied moments with exquisite sensitivity, celebrating a sensuality freed from analysis and gender norms. Emma Kohlmann (b. 1989, Bronx, New York) is an internationally recognized 0 Comments
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Former NFL Player Shares Message on Overcoming AdversityBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires.com Sports
06:20AM / Thursday, August 29, 2024 | |
 DALTON, Mass. – By any reasonable measure, Keith Willis has been a success in sports and in life. And the former NFL tight end probably inspired a little awe among the Wahconah High School student-athletes who filled the Nessacus Middle School auditorium on Wednesday evening. But he did not come to show off. He came to show those students how to be winners themselves. “How many think it’s cool that I played for five different NFL teams?” Willis said, asking for a show of hands from the youngsters. “It’s pretty cool, right? “You know what people don’t think about? That means I was cut five different 0 Comments
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Clark Art Presents Djs at Sunset: LDER| 08:01AM / Wednesday, August 28, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sept. 4 at 6 pm on the Fernández Terrace, the Clark Art Institute presents a free sunset concert by Haitian-American music producer LDER as part of its DJs at Sunset series. The DJs at Sunset series is presented in celebration of the exhibition, "Kathia St. Hilaire: Invisible Empires." Kathia St. Hilaire (b. 1995, West Palm Beach, Florida; lives and works in New York), whose parents immigrated to the United States from Haiti, tells stories of the island nation's history and the long shadows it casts, from French colonialism to independence, from U.S. occupation to the diasporic communities in which she was raised. The exhibition is 0 Comments
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A Rare Bird: Koperniak Stands Out in Triple-ABy Frank Murtaugh, The Memphis (Tenn.) Flyer
06:00AM / Wednesday, August 28, 2024 | |
 MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- I’ve interviewed professional baseball players for more than two decades. There are talented players who, honestly, aren’t that interesting away from the diamond. They’re good ballplayers, and baseball is what they know. There are also very interesting baseball players who aren’t all that talented. Now and then, though, you find yourself in the home team’s dugout at AutoZone Park with a very good baseball player who has a very interesting story to share. Like the Memphis Redbirds’ top hitter this season, outfielder Matt Koperniak. That story? It began on Feb. 8, 1998, when Koperniak was born in London. (Koperniak played for 0 Comments
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Williamstown Housing Trust Faces Decision on Family Selection Process for New DevelopmentBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:33AM / Wednesday, August 28, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The board of the Affordable Housing Trust may face a decision about whether it's more important to follow the practice of its non-profit partner or the dictates of a state housing program. Members of the board of Northern Berkshire Habitat for Humanity met with the trustees last week to explain a "mismatch" between its practice for selecting homeowners and the rules that govern the commonwealth's Subsidized Housing Inventory. The conflict came up because the AHT's intention is to have housing created on parcels it purchased back in 2015 count toward the town's inventory of affordable housing as classified by the state 0 Comments
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Millers, Thunder Win Berkshire Adult Baseball League Titles| 07:13AM / Tuesday, August 27, 2024 | |
 The Berkshire Thunder and GB Millers each swept their way to Berkshire Adult Baseball League titles over the weekend. At Wahconah Park on Sunday, the Thunder edged the Dalton Moneymakers, 6-5, to wrap up their best-of-three championship series in the 33-and-over division of the BABL. The Thunder, which won the opener, 6-1, on Saturday, got a strong pitching performance from three different players in Game 2. Joe Bateman, Cory Hillard and Seamus Morrison combined to allow just two earned runs in the title clincher. Hillard got the win with four innings of work in relief, scattering four hits and allowing all five runs -- three unearned as the Thunder committed 0 Comments
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Williamstown Planners Talks Housing Development, Water ProtectionBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:45PM / Monday, August 26, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Planning Board last week talked about balancing housing and land conservation in the rural parts of town and protecting the aquifer that supplies drinking water to most of the town's inhabitants. The bulk of the meeting was dedicated to discussing projects that the board wants to work on in the year ahead, including initiatives in a couple of areas — short-term rentals and housing lot sizes — that have been on the board's radar for years and one new initiative that was brought to the board by a member of town's staff. The meeting began with the approval of a subdivision on Water Street. The owner of the former 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock School Committee Taking Two Years to Find SuperintendentBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:56AM / Monday, August 26, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The last time the Mount Greylock Regional School District looked for a permanent superintendent, the search process lasted 20 days. This time, the School Committee wants to take two years. On Thursday, the committee decided on a vote of 6-0 to formally begin a search for a new superintendent in the fall of 2025 with hopes of having a top executive for the district in place by the start of the 2026-27 academic year. The committee formalized a course of action that first was developed in a July 11 in-person meeting with officials from the Massachusetts Association of School Committees. On Thursday, the committee reviewed some of the 0 Comments
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Clark Art Hosts Outdoor Classical Concert and Family Concert| 08:10AM / Sunday, August 25, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Over Labor Day weekend, The Knights orchestra returns to the Clark Art Institute to present two free concerts. The first is an outdoor concert on Saturday, Aug. 31 at 4 pm on the Fernández Terrace by the Clark's reflecting pool. The second is a family-friendly concert on Sunday, Sept. 1 at noon in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. Outdoor Concert
Saturday, Aug. 31, 4 pm
Focused on its string section, The Knights celebrate the Clark's major summer exhibition by playing a double violin concerto, Symphonie Concertante in G Major, by Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-George, a contemporary of painter
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Williamstown Fire District Counting Down to Construction Start DateBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:47PM / Saturday, August 24, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — If all goes according to plan, the town's new fire station will be under construction in less than a month. Wednesday's meeting of the fire district's Building Committee was filled with signs of progress. Plans for a Sept. 4 groundbreaking were mentioned, the building permit is in, the committee decided to scale back its monthly meeting schedule to a quarterly "check-in" and, perhaps the best news of all, the project continues to be on budget. The district's construction adviser, Bruce Decoteau, provided the committee with a number of updates in a brief session at the current fire house on Water Street. Among other 0 Comments
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CATA Artists Shine at Clark ExhibitBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
07:02AM / Saturday, August 24, 2024 | |
CATA program participants had the opportunity to express themselves through art at the event. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — In a gallery filled with vibrant art and art admirers at a world famous museum, Dalton's Katherine Butler meticulously works on her next creation. Is she creating a piece for CATA's next annual art show? "Maybe, I don't know yet," Butler says with a smile. This summer, Butler joined 200 other artists in Community Access to the Arts programs to contribute pieces for a show that ran at Pittsfield's Lichtenstein Center for the Arts through Tuesday and continues at the Clark Art Institute through Sept. 22. On 0 Comments
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Clark Art Talk: Views of Venice| 08:18AM / Friday, August 23, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Wednesday, Aug. 28 at 1 pm, the Clark Art Institute's Manton Study Center for Works on Paper hosts the final of this summer's Works on Paper Highlights Talks. William Satloff, graduate intern in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper, presents "Views of Venice." In the talk, he highlights prints of Venice's Piazza San Marco by American and British artists (1900–1930) and discusses the Renaissance architecture of that site. With masterpieces of graphic art from the fifteenth through the early twentieth century, the Clark's collection of prints, drawings, and photographs is a veritable treasure 0 Comments
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