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Berkshire Delegation Commends Advocacy Of Constituents for Rural School Aid ProgramStaff Reports ,
08:02AM / Sunday, November 05, 2023 | |
BOSTON — State Senator Paul Mark, on behalf of the Berkshire Delegation, announced that funding for the Rural School Aid grant program has been raised to $15 million for Fiscal Year 2024, resulting in increases ranging from 30-210 percent for schools in the Berkshire, Hampden, Franklin and Hampshire District. The program provides financial assistance to the Commonwealth's most rural school districts. "Making sure that students throughout our region can access a high-quality education, equal to their counterparts around the state, is extremely important to me and our regional delegation," said Senator Mark. "Tripling the amount of Rural School Aid 0 Comments
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Williams Field Hockey Reaches League Title Game| 06:17PM / Saturday, November 04, 2023 | |
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. -- The Williams College field hockey team Saturday scored twice in the fourth quarter to earn a 2-1, come-from-behind win over Bates in the NESCAC semi-finals. Molly Hellman and Kiki Higgins each scored for Williams (11-6), which advances to meet top-seeded Middlebury on Sunday at noon for the league title. Women's Soccer AMHERST, Mass. -- Bowdoin advanced past Williams on penalty kicks in the NESCAC semi-finals. Isabel Konijnenberg scored midway through the first half to give Williams (9-3-5) a 1-0 lead. Football WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Wesleyan scored 22 unanswered points in the fourth quarter to earn a 30-22 win over Williams. Nick 0 Comments
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Senator Mark Announces November Office Hours| 04:04PM / Saturday, November 04, 2023 | |
BOSTON — State Senator Paul W. Mark announced that his staff will host office hours at five locations in Berkshire County in November. Residents of any of the 57 municipalities in the Senator's Berkshire, Hampden, Franklin, and Hampshire District are encouraged to ask for assistance with issues involving any state agency or to share ideas on current or potential state legislation. Appointments are not required. Adams: Tuesday, November 7, and Tuesday, November 21, from 9 a.m. to noon. Town Hall, 8 Park St., Adams. Dalton: Monday, November 13, from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.. Senior Center, 40 Field St., Dalton. Great Barrington: Monday, November 6, and Monday, 0 Comments
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Williams Volleyball Advances in League Playoffs| 09:00PM / Friday, November 03, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Morgan Daetz served five aces and passed out 14 assists Friday to help the Williams College volleyball team earn a three-set win over Bates in the NESCAC playoffs. Marit Hoyem had a team-high 10 kills and tied for the team lead with four blocks in the 25-9, 25-22, 25-11 win. Williams (14-8) travels to face Middlebury on Sunday in the converence quarter-finals. 0 Comments
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State Fire Marshal: Ready to Fall Back? When You Change Your Clocks, Check Your Alarms!| 04:25PM / Friday, November 03, 2023 | |
STOW, Mass. — With the end of daylight savings time coming on Nov. 5, Massachusetts fire officials issued a seasonal reminder to check your smoke and carbon monoxide (CO) alarms and change the batteries when you change your clocks. "Working smoke and CO alarms are crucial home safety tools," said State Fire Marshal Jon M. Davine. "As we 'fall back' this weekend, be sure you have the best protection by putting fresh alkaline batteries in alarms that use them and replacing alarms that are out of date." Today's smoke and carbon monoxide alarms have the manufacturing date printed on the back of the device. Smoke alarms should be replaced when 0 Comments
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At Last: Mount Greylock Field Project on TrackBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:23AM / Friday, November 03, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — After seven years, controversy about the choice of surface, dozens of meetings by several committees and several disappointments from over-budget cost estimates and bids, Mount Greylock Regional School appears to finally be getting a track and multi-sport playing field. By a vote of 5-0, the School Committee on Thursday decided to accept the recommendation of its Field and Track Project Committee to enter negotiations with William. J. Keller and Sons Construction of Castleton on Hudson, N.Y., to build the field and eight-lane track on the west side of the middle-high school campus. "This is really exciting," Carolyn Greene said after the 0 Comments
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Clark Art Presents 'Lavender Hill Mob'| 11:03AM / Thursday, November 02, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. On Thursday, Nov. 9, the Clark Art Institute continues its series of British films honoring the birthplace of Sir Edwin Manton during its Manton Research Center's fiftieth anniversary. The Clark shows "The Lavender Hill Mob" at 6 pm in its auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. "The Lavender Hill Mob" might be the archetypal Ealing comedy. The film features everything the studio is famous for—loveable crooks, class conflict, London streets, avuncular bobbies, pratfalls, slapstick, tea, buns, and Alec Guinness—but with a Hitchcock-inspired thriller plot that makes it the most pacily enthralling of their 0 Comments
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NBSA Fall Basketball League Title Games SetiBerkshires.com Sports,
09:37AM / Thursday, November 02, 2023 | |
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. -- The Championship matchups are set for the Northern Berkshire Sports Academy's fall basketball season. The title games are set for Sunday morning at Drury High School. In the A Division, the NBSA will play Giardina and Bresett PC at 9 a.m. Then, the Saboteurs will take on Adelson and Company in the B Division final. All four teams advanced with semi-final wins on Oct. 29 at the Armory. B Division Adelson and Company 66, NBSA 48 Jon Gregory scored 31 points to lead Adelson and Company. Colin Rousseau and Nick Lewis added 11 and 10 points, respectively in the win. NBSA got 24 points from Brian Dowling. Ben Moulton scored 18 points, 0 Comments
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Clark Art First Free Sundays Continues| 08:00AM / Thursday, November 02, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute's First Sundays Free program continues on Sunday, Nov. 5. offering free admission from 10 am–5 pm. The day also features a series of music-themed special activities from 1–4 pm, including a classical music performance by the JAK Duo and Daniel Temkin. According to a press release: Engage with music throughout the Clark. Move your body and join artist and educator Molly Hess for all-ages dance workshops at 1 and 2 pm. These workshops incorporate rhythm, pulse, and the visual elements of music. Then, embark on a guided soundscape experience at 3 pm, and add your own chorus of sounds to the galleries, 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock Track and Field Bids Come in on TargetBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:10AM / Thursday, November 02, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee could vote as early as Thursday evening to award a construction contract for a new multi-sport field and eight-lane track at the middle-high school. And if all goes according to plan, work on the project could begin before the end of the calendar year. The district's Field and Track Project Committee on Wednesday looked at three bids on the scaled down project to build a natural grass field ringed by a running track on land just east of the district's administration building. Two of the bids came in below the $3.6 million the committee was targeting after its latest round of 0 Comments
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Clark Art Hosts Book Talk| 11:19AM / Wednesday, November 01, 2023 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday, Nov. 5, the Clark Art Institute hosts a book talk and conversation between author Christine Coulson and Elizabeth McGowan, Williams College's Robert Sterling Clark Professor of Art, about Coulson's new novel, "One Woman Show." The talk begins at 11 a.m. in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. The program is free and open to the public. According to a press release, Coulson spent twenty-five years writing for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her final project was to write wall labels for the museum's new British Galleries. During that time, she dreamt of using the Met's strict 0 Comments
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Williamstown Looking for Clarity on Dog Leashing RulesBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:26AM / Wednesday, November 01, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board on Monday agreed to have the town manager put together a working group to sort out and clarify the town's bylaws on dog leashing. Robert Menicocci came to the board seeking clarifications of "ambiguities" in town code that came up after last spring's town meeting debate on a proposal to require dogs to be leashed when off their owner's property in the general residence zone. Specifically, there is a bylaw — which the May 2023 town meeting article sought to amend — that requires dogs to be on leash or under "voice control" in the district. There also is a regulation created by the 0 Comments
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