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Roosa Leads Field of 100s at High Lawn FarmiBerkshires.com Sports,
10:01PM / Sunday, July 30, 2023 | |
 LEE, Mass. -- Lee's Maguire Roosa and Glendale's Morgan Windram-Geddes were the top finishers Sunday at the High Lawn Farm Keep Moo’ving 5K. The event was held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the family-owned dairy farm and as a benefit for Berkshire Bounty, a food rescue organization that serves emergency food distribution programs county-wide. Roosa hit the finish line in 19 minutes, 30.45 seconds, a 6:16 mile pace, to edge runner-up Pat McNaughton (19:31.87) by just more than a second. Windram-Geddes was the top female finisher and sixth-place finisher overall, covering the out-and-back course around the farm property in 20:21.31. The 0 Comments
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Williamstown Removes Names from Meeting Room DoorBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:12PM / Saturday, July 29, 2023 | |
How the door signage looked previously. That board will be the last to have their names so prominently displayed. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board on Monday voted to make signage at Town Hall more inclusive. And that started with excluding the board members' names from the door to the first-floor meeting room. Stephanie Boyd pointed out to the colleagues that there were three signs on the first floor of the Municipal Building where the board was referred to as the "selectmen." Leaving aside the fact that women have served on the elected body for decades, including two of the five current members, the signage ran counter to a 2022 0 Comments
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Clark Art Outdoor Movie Series: 'Playtime'| 12:22PM / Friday, July 28, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute presents five film screenings as part of its summer outdoor movie series On Aug. 2 at 8:15pm the film "Playtime" will be screened. According to a press release: Jacques Tati's gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in an age of high technology reached their apotheosis with "Playtime" (1967; 2 hours, 4 minutes). For this monumental achievement, a nearly three-year-long, bank-breaking production, Tati again thrust the lovably old-fashioned Monsieur Hulot, along with a host of other lost souls, into a baffling modern world, this time Paris. With every inch of its 0 Comments
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Williamstown Fire District Discusses Raising Permit FeesBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:19AM / Friday, July 28, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williamstown Fire District is looking at how it can adjust its inspection fees to reflect their value and bring them in line with the prices in neighboring communities. Chief Craig Pedercini on Wednesday showed the Prudential Committee a table with data he collected from 10 Berkshire County municipalities, most of which currently charge more than Williamstown for similar services. For instance, the district currently charges $25 for a smoke alarm and carbon monoxide detector inspection for a single-family home at the time of sale. Of the nine communities responding to Pedercini's inquiry, only two (Lenox and Lee) charge so little. Pittsfield 0 Comments
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More Storms in Store For Berkshire CountyStaff Reports ,
11:30AM / Thursday, July 27, 2023 | |
Berkshire County residents can expect high temperatures this week but a relatively cooler weekend. Today Thursday, July 27, expect temperatures in the high 70s with storms. AccuWeather reports that storms could bring flooding downpours, hail, damaging wind gusts, and an isolated tornado. There is an area flood watch in effect from 9 am to 10 pm. Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations. On Friday, July 28, expect mostly cloudy weather with temperatures in the high 80s. Temperatures will drop drastically Saturday with a high of 78. Showers can be expected as some thunderstorms. 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock Regional High School Records To Be Destroyed| 08:37AM / Thursday, July 27, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — In accordance with state regulations, all temporary cumulative school and health records for students who have graduated from or left Mount Greylock Regional High School during the 2015-2016 school year will be destroyed on Wednesday, August 25, 2023. State regulations require that student records be destroyed seven years after the student graduates. However, the high school transcript that includes the grades for the four years of high school is maintained for 60 years following graduation. Any student who is interested in retrieving their records before destruction should contact the Counseling Office at (413)458-9582 0 Comments
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Williamstown Select Board Pressed to Adopt Residential Tax ExemptionBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:34AM / Thursday, July 27, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Just because no towns east of Interstate 95 have utilized a provision of state law on property taxes, it does not follow that towns outside of eastern Mass cannot or should not take advantage of that provision, a member of the Select Board argued on Monday night. Stephanie Boyd, who talked about exploring use of the commonwealth's Residential Tax Exemption during her election campaign in the spring, made good on that promise with a lengthy presentation to her colleagues about the structural inequity in the current property tax system and how the RTE potentially could ameliorate that problem. Boyd went step by step through an analysis of national 0 Comments
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Williams College Hosts Free Summer Concert| 12:19PM / Wednesday, July 26, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. Celebrate summer with family, friends, and world-class live music on the campus of Williams College which will host a summer concert featuring Sean Rowe on Thursday, August 3, at 6 p.m. Sean Rowe is an American singer-songwriter, musician, recording artist and forager. According to a press release: Rowe has a powerful sound with an emotional conviction that demands attention. NPR's All Songs Considered says of Rowe's vocals, "He can just crush granite with that voice. It's so powerful." The Wall Street Journal proclaimed, "Mr. Rowe's ringing baritone is as timeless as his approach, recalling the ecstatic 0 Comments
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Clark Art Hosts Outdoor Performance| 08:27AM / Monday, July 24, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, July 29 at 6:30 pm, the Clark Art Institute hosts "Together," an outdoor performance presented by choreographer Kim Brandt. "Together" is created in dialogue with both Elizabeth Atterbury's exhibition "Oracle Bones" and the Clark's natural setting. The performance begins at 6:30 pm on the Clark's Fernández Terrace. According to a press release: Using movement to explore the multitude of ways in which we are both interdependent and independent, "Together" considers how the relationship between time, space, scale, and motion inform our understanding of place. Six 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock School Committee Sends Track, Field Project to BidBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:31AM / Monday, July 24, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee this month agreed to put the latest incarnation of its track and field project out to bid. The panel could have bids in hand to approve as soon as its September meeting, and shovels could go in the ground at the middle-high school campus as early as this fall, Carolyn Greene told her colleagues. "Assuming a bid is approved, the construction team might start in the fall," she said at the School Committee's July meeting. "They might start in the spring. It depends on their schedules. "We'd anticipate the completion date would be essentially the same whether they started in 0 Comments
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Sweetwood Owner Back Before Williamstown Planning BoardBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:33AM / Friday, July 21, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A representative from the Sweetwood Independent Living Community last week opened a dialogue with the Planning Board about creating a potential zoning bylaw amendment to help the facility stay economically viable. But attorney Karla Chaffee offered no new language to replace the amendments the landowner proposed and later withdrew for last May's annual town meeting. "If the message from the board is, 'You bring a proposal to us,' that's fine as well," Chaffee said in a video conference with the four members at the board's July 11 meeting. "I was heartened by comments we heard at the last Planning Board meeting that 0 Comments
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5 Berkshire Farms Getting $550K in Grant Funding| 01:21PM / Thursday, July 20, 2023 | |
CHICOPEE, Mass. — Five farms in Berkshire County are benefiting from more than $26.3 million in agricultural grants announced by Gov. Maura Healey on Thursday. The grants through the Food Security Infrastructure Grant Program are to strengthen Massachusetts' food supply system and mitigate future food supply and distribution disruption issues. For the first time in the history of the program, the administration prioritized projects that support organizations impacted by drought or extreme weather events. Fairfields Dairy Farm LLC in Williamstown is getting $217,300; Cavu Farms in Cheshire, $223,170; Berkshire Bounty in Great Barrington, $67,371.89; Holiday Brook Farm 0 Comments
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