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Soldier On 5K Sunday in PittsfieldCommunity submission,
11:11AM / Tuesday, November 05, 2024 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. – Soldier On and the Berkshire Running Foundation will host the inaugural Soldier On 5K Walk/Run Sunday, Nov. 10 at the First Street Common in Pittsfield at 9 a.m. This event will help support the mission at Soldier On. Soldier On is a private nonprofit organization committed to ending veteran homelessness. Since 1994, the organization has been providing homeless veterans with transitional housing and supportive services. In 2010, Soldier On opened the first Gordon H. Mansfield Veterans Community, a permanent housing cooperative that provides formerly homeless veterans with safe, sustainable, affordable housing – transitioning them from 0 Comments
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Clark Art Hosts Talk By Poet and Scholar| 07:49AM / Tuesday, November 05, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday, Nov. 8 at 6 pm, the Clark Art Institute hosts poet, scholar, and Paris Review poetry editor Srikanth Reddy. This free event takes place in the Manton Research Center auditorium. A book signing follows the talk. According to a press release: Reddy joins novelist and the Clark's Research and Academic Program's Special Projects Coordinator Sara Houghteling to discuss his latest book, "The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures" (Wave Books, 2024). In it, Reddy refracts poems by the likes of Homer, Gertrude Stein, and Ronald Joconchnson through images such as Bruegel's Landscape with the Fall of 0 Comments
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Williams College Addressing New Bias IncidentsiBerkshires.com Staff,
10:03PM / Monday, November 04, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – Saying the college has to “resist hatred in all its forms,” the president of Williams Monday informed the campus community of recent bias incidents at the school. Maud Mandel sent a college-wide email to provide details on the incidents, talk about how affected students are being supported and point out that the college’s code of conduct will be brought to bear on any members of the student body found to be responsible. The recent incidents appear to be targeting both Jewish and Black students at the school. “In one case, a table painted with the U.S. and Israeli flags was placed outside on the Frosh Quad,” 0 Comments
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Clark Art Concert By Circuit Des Yeux| 07:57AM / Monday, November 04, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute presents the final concert in its Music in the Manton series on Thursday, Nov. 7, featuring the Circuit des Yeux, Bill Nace, and kite/wing. The concert takes place in the Manton Research Center auditorium at 6 pm. According to a press release: Circuit des Yeux is the stage name of Haley Fohr, a Chicago-based vocalist, composer, and singer-songwriter known for her four-octave voice and distinctive twelve-string guitar style. Her recent works include an original soundtrack for Charles Bryant’s silent film Salomé (1923), commissioned by Opera North, and her acclaimed 2021 album –io, featured on 0 Comments
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Williamstown Select Board to Hear Update on Hazard Mitigation PlanBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:48PM / Saturday, November 02, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Residents have a chance to share their concerns about the town's preparedness for potential natural disasters as Williamstown updates its Hazard Mitigation Plan. Emergency management consultant Jamie Caplan of Northampton is working with the town to refresh the plan, last updated in 2019, that expired this summer. At Monday's Select Board meeting, her firm will be providing an update on the plan, which the town plans to submit to the state this spring. Both the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency and Federal Emergency Management Agency review and approve such plans, which make municipalities eligible for pre-disaster mitigation 0 Comments
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Williams College Looking to Fill Commercial Space on Spring StreetBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:29AM / Friday, November 01, 2024 | |
The pharmacy opened by Berkshire Health Systems four years ago is closing because of 'low utilization.' Another college-owned property, the former Purple Dragon, will undergo a facelift to make the space more attractive to potential tenants. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A Williams College official who handles the school's commercial spaces on Spring Street said this week the school already has received interest in the space currently occupied by a frozen yogurt shop. And another soon-to-be-vacant Spring Street storefront is ideally suited to host something similar to the drug store that is pulling out, the school's associate provost 0 Comments
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Clark Art Offers Gallery Tour for Parents and Infants | 11:21AM / Wednesday, October 30, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, Nov. 2 at 10:15 am, the Clark Art Institute hosts the next in its series of free tours of its permanent collection galleries designed specifically to meet the interests of new parents/caregivers and their infants. Participants should meet at the Clark's main admissions desk. The program is specially designed to provide new parents and caregivers with a stress-free experience that offers chances to socialize with others who are caring for young infants. The guided gallery tour offers an informal visit to the Clark's permanent collection free from any concerns about short attention spans or fussy babies. Works by a variety 0 Comments
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Clark Art Hosts Concerts So Percussion| 08:15AM / Wednesday, October 30, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, Nov. 2 at 7 pm, the Clark Art Institute hosts a concert by the chamber group S? Percussion in the Manton Research Center auditorium. For over twenty years, S? Percussion has redefined twenty-first-century chamber music through an "exhilarating blend of precision and anarchy" (The New Yorker). Celebrated for their diverse work, their live performances showcase "telepathic powers of communication" (The New York Times). Their recording Narrow Sea (Nonesuch Records) with Caroline Shaw, Dawn Upshaw, and Gilbert Kalish won the 2022 Grammy for Best Contemporary Classical Composition. They will collaborate with Williams College 0 Comments
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Clark Art Presents First Sunday Free| 08:11AM / Wednesday, October 30, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute First Sunday Free series continues on Sunday, November 3 from 1 to 4 pm. November's theme is "Frame and Reframe." According to a press release: At the Clark, we love talking about paintings, prints, and drawings. But for this First Sunday Free, we are excited to talk about something that is often overlooked—the frame! In addition to their often-ornate decoration, frames serve an important function: defining what we can and cannot see. Take a viewfinder into the galleries and discover interesting compositions all around you. Decorate a frame to take home for your own photo or 0 Comments
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Williams College Gets $105M in Bonding for WCMA, Capital Projects| 02:45PM / Tuesday, October 29, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Williams College has received more than $105 million bonding toward construction of the new art museum and other campus capital projects. The college announced on Monday that MassDevelopment has issued a $105,820,000 tax-exempt bond on behalf of the president and Trustees of Williams College. The organization will use bond proceeds to finance several projects on the college's campus, including (1) building and equipping a new art museum and multipurpose recreation center, (2) implementing the college's energy and carbon master plan, (3) renovating and equipping dormitories and dining facilities, (4) reimbursing the college for 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock Making Lighting Improvements on CampusBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
12:39PM / Tuesday, October 29, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The new field and track is not the only upgrade to Mount Greylock's outdoor athletic facilities this fall. In addition to the new multisport grass field ringed by an eight-lane running track, the school is slated next month to have the lights at its current varsity soccer/lacrosse field retrofitted with new LED fixtures. Interim Superintendent Joseph Bergeron said Thursday that the new lights will be mounted on the existing poles around John T. Allen Field. Bergeron said the replacement project will be funded, "through a National Grid program where 50 percent of the cost is a grant and 50 percent comes over years through on-bill 0 Comments
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Williamstown Con Comm Clears New WCMABy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:42AM / Tuesday, October 29, 2024 | |
The landscaping includes a number of distinct gardens and the planting of 1,000 trees. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Williams College on Thursday received the final town approval it needed to proceed with building a new art museum on the former site of the Williams Inn. Even as site work was underway for the planned 76,000-square-foot museum next door to Town Hall, the Conservation Commission met to consider a request for determination of applicability of the Wetlands Protection Act for landscaping the college plans in a small portion of the 6.75-acre site. The area in question is in the northwest corner of the museum property and within 200 feet of the nearby Hemlock 0 Comments
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