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Williamstown Select Board Allocates Part of Town's ARPA FundsBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:15PM / Tuesday, January 31, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board on Monday agreed on how to spend $565,000 of nearly $2 million in available American Rescue Plan Act funds. How much of the balance goes to support the construction of a new fire station is the million-dollar question. Or, depending on your point of view, the $400,000 question. The four members of the board in attendance at Monday's meeting held off on deciding how to allocate the balance of the town's ARPA funds — nearly $1.4 million. The two biggest ticket items on the "menu" of options before the board on Monday remained unaddressed at the end of the panel's deliberations: a grant to the 0 Comments
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Clark Art Hosts Concert By Bill Nace and Matt Krefting| 11:55AM / Tuesday, January 31, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — In partnership with North Adams-based Belltower Records, the Clark Art Institute hosts a concert by Bill Nace and Matt Krefting on Sunday, Feb. 5 at 3 pm. Nace and Krefting bring their experimental sounds to the Clark on the heels of their new LP release "The Academy." Presented as part of the Clark's Concerts at the Conforti series, the performance takes place in the Michael Conforti Pavilion. According to a press release: Krefting is a DJ, music writer, and sound artist who has worked in the realms of drone, tape music, musique concrete, and avant-garde rock. Nace operates in similar territory, often 0 Comments
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Clark Art Fun on First Sunday Program| 03:39PM / Monday, January 30, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute will offer a day of special activities on Sunday, Feb. 5 as part of its Fun on First Sundays program. Admission to the galleries and special exhibitions is free all day, and visitors can enjoy activities from 1–4 pm. To honor the Manton Research Center building's fiftieth-anniversary celebration, February's First Sunday theme, weather, is inspired by an artist in the Clark's Manton collection—who was as much a meteorologist as he was an artist—John Constable. Explore tools used to understand weather conditions and pose with a friend in front of the "wacky weather 0 Comments
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Williamstown Resident Nominated for GrammyBy Sabrina Damms, iBerkshires Staff
07:25AM / Sunday, January 29, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — One week from Sunday, Matt Cusson will be walking the red carpet and waiting in the audience to hear if his name called at the 65th Grammy Awards. The Pittsfield native is nominated in the "Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella" for his work on the Bee Gees' "How Deep Is Your Love" performed by Dallas-based a cappella group Kings Return. Cusson said recently that his nomination feels surreal and he's been in awe thinking about getting the same gilded gramaphone as A-list celebrities like Beyonce, who's won 28 Grammys and is up for nine this year. "It still hasn't hit me, 0 Comments
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Williamstown Community Preservation Committee Faces ShortfallBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
06:30AM / Saturday, January 28, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Community Preservation Committee on Wednesday determined that five of the six applications for funds in the fiscal 2024 cycle meet the qualifications for funding under the Community Preservation Act. In a hybrid meeting at Town Hall, six of the committee's eight members heard presentations from five of the six applicants. Town Manager Robert Menicocci, who is both a voting member of the CPC and the representative for a $100,000 Town Hall request for CPA funds to address overruns in a bicycle/pedestrian trail project, did not attend the committee's first meeting of the calendar year. Although all five of the requests reviewed 5 Comments
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Clark Art Screens Experimental Animation Short Films| 11:27AM / Friday, January 27, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Feb. 2 at 7 pm, the Clark Art Institute screens a selection of short films covering experimental animation from the 1960s and '70s in its auditorium. The showing is the third event in the Clark's Film and Drawing series, inspired by the exhibition, "Promenades on Paper: Eighteenth-Century Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France," on view through March 12. According to a press release: In the midst of the Cold War, animation artists explored alternative realities. Their artistic explorations enabled them to venture outside of the ideological boundaries of international politics. Some of these 0 Comments
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Williams College: Imani Perry 'South to America'| 08:49AM / Friday, January 27, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Imani Perry will speak at the Claiming Williams 2023 evening keynote event on Feb. 2 at 7:30 pm. There will be a pre-seating for the campus at 6:45pm. Williams College students should bring thier Williams ID. Doors open to the public at 7pm. This event will be live-streamed and shown live on WilliNet TV channel 1303 in Williamstown. A link to the live stream will be available on this site closer to the date. According to a press release: Born just nine years after the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University was instilled from an early age 0 Comments
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Williams College Commits $5 Million to Fire Station ProjectBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
12:21PM / Thursday, January 26, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Williams College on Thursday morning announced it is committing $5 million toward the cost of building a new fire station on Main Street. College President Maud Mandel announced the result of this past weekend's meeting of the college's Board of Trustees in an email to the college community, and the district issued a news release shortly after. "[T]he board agreed to contribute a total of $5 million toward construction of Williamstown's new fire station at a rate of $1 million per year over the next five years," Mandel wrote. "Our campus community relies heavily on local first responders, including student and staff 0 Comments
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Clark Art Offers Free Gallery Tours for Parents and Infants| 08:25AM / Thursday, January 26, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday, Feb. 3 at 10:15 am, the Clark Art Institute hosts a tour of its permanent collection galleries for new parents/caregivers and infants. The event is free. Participants should meet at the Clark's main Admissions desk. New parents and caregivers bring their infants into the galleries for a guided visit and the opportunity to socialize with other community members in a casual environment. The informal tour includes a unique look at the Clark's permanent collection, featuring an array of works by a variety of artists. Each month offers a different selection of artworks. Best suited for adults with pre-toddlers. Strollers 0 Comments
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Williamstown Fire District Panel OKs 10% Station Cost CutBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:03AM / Thursday, January 26, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The committee that oversees the Fire District on Wednesday agreed to lower by 10 percent its request to voters to fund a new station on Main Street. Prudential Committee Chair David Moresi asked his colleagues to hold off on a planned review of the warrant for the Feb. 28 special district meeting to seek borrowing authority to fund the building project. Instead, Moresi, who also serves on the district's Building Committee, told the three other members of the Prudential Committee in attendance that he would call a special meeting of the panel to approve new warrant article language requesting authority to spend up to $22.5 million on the new 6 Comments
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Letter: New Fire StationLetter to the Editor,
02:20PM / Wednesday, January 25, 2023 | |
 To the Editor:
I support our Fire Department as well as our Police Department. The proposal to spend $25 million is not unreasonable for what is being proposed. However, the primary reason we need a new fire station is the requirement to have big fire trunks with long ladders to protect Williams College's tall buildings for which the college pays no taxes. While Williams has it's own security police department it does not have its own fire department. It is true that they support Fire Department volunteers, which is good. Thus, the college should contribute $10 million up front toward the new fire station and voters should be asked to vote to approve $15 million toward a new fire
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