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Mount Greylock Schools Focus on Student LiteracyBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:04AM / Wednesday, February 19, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School District is placing an emphasis on literacy instruction that is reflected in the preliminary budget that the administration put forth last week. Interim Superintendent Joseph Bergeron and Director of Curriculum and Instruction Joelle Brookner laid out the reasons why literacy needs to be a priority for the district and the steps staff plan to take to address that need during the School Committee's Feb. 13 meeting. Bergeron opened by emphasizing that while there are issues that need to be addressed, the district continues to do a good job educating the students of Lanesborough, Williamstown and surrounding 0 Comments
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PowerSchool Offers Identity Monitoring in Wake of Data BreachBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
02:59PM / Tuesday, February 18, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Families of school-children concerned about the PowerSchool data breach announced last year can sign up for two years of free identity monitoring services paid for by the school information system vendor. Mount Greylock Regional School interim Superintendent Joseph Bergeron mentioned the offer at last week's meeting of the School Committee and said he was hoping to spread the word through as many channels as possible. "We have plenty of folks whose emails have changed," Bergeron said, pointing out the difficulty in reaching every former student or staff member who could have been affected by the data breach. Bergeron said a link 0 Comments
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Higher Taxes, Loss of Latin Seen in Mount Greylock's Tentative Spending PlanBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
12:17PM / Tuesday, February 18, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee on Thursday began honing in on a budget that will require much larger assessment increases than the district's two member towns typically see. While repeatedly stressing that the fiscal year 2026 budget on the table was a draft, interim Superintendent explained that the spending plan he has crafted reflects the reality of non-discretionary cost increases, state aid that is not rising anywhere near the rate of those increases and some of the investments in personnel and course material that came from the district's three school councils. As it stands now, the district would see an increase in its 0 Comments
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Images Launches $2.2M Capital Campaign| 09:01AM / Tuesday, February 18, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass — Images Cinema has announced a major facility renovation project, the first in 17 years, which will dramatically enhance the availability of cinematic experiences in the region by upgrading amenities and adding a second screen. The project, "Look Forward," is a $2.2 million multi-year, multi-phase construction and capital campaign that organizers say will propel the nonprofit organization's facility toward a sustainable future. Images has already raised over $1.3 million for this two-screen modernization project and will now launch a public capital campaign. It has applied for $33,000 in Community Preservation Act funding. The 0 Comments
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Williamstown's Images Cinema Plans to Double Its ImpactBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:53AM / Tuesday, February 18, 2025 | |
The 150-seat movie house will be split into a 70-seat theater and a 19-seat screening room. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Images Cinema wants to double its impact while remaining within its current footprint on Spring Street. The non-profit art house movie theater Tuesday launches the public phase of a $2.2 million capital campaign to add a second screen to the 109-year-old venue. "This plan would allow us to increase programming and better serve a multiplicity of audiences and demographics, which have become increasingly important as younger families are moving into the area," Images Executive Director Dan Hudson said last month. "North Adams 0 Comments
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Williamstown Again Williams' Town in Summer of '25By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:45PM / Sunday, February 16, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williamstown Theatre Festival has announced a 2025 season with five full-scale productions, including two world premieres and two revivals of dramas by Tennessee Williams. The summer festival lists the five productions on its website, which provides no information about dates and says tickets go on sale "in March." In addition to two of his own works, Williams' influence is seen in one of the new works planned for the summer season, according to the WTF. Williams, a Pulitzer Prize winner, was to have been included in the WTF's aborted 2020 season with a production of "A Streetcar Named Desire." After the 0 Comments
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Clark Art Reflections Gallery Talk| 10:46AM / Friday, February 14, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, Feb. 18 at 11 am, the Clark Art Institute presents Reflections, a monthly gallery experience during which visitors are invited to look contemplatively as they engage with works of art from the Clark's collection. Participants meet in the Museum Pavilion. With a gentle tone that encourages investigation and audience participation, the group explores one or two artworks with the help of a Clark educator, working together to explore its meaning, find understanding, and raise questions. Distinct from a conventional gallery tour, Reflections provides an opportunity for close looking and introspection.
Free. Advance registration
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Clark Art Offers School Vacation Week Activities| 07:52AM / Friday, February 14, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute offers children and family activities and opportunities to see art during the Massachusetts public school system's February vacation week, Monday, Feb. 17 through Friday, Feb. 21. Every day of the week, children can pick up a free Drawing Pad and set of colored pencils at the Clark Center admissions desk. Visitors are also encouraged to pick up a "Wall Power!" gallery guide to learn more about the Clark's current tapestry exhibition. Special vacation week programming is offered on Tuesday, Feb. 18 and Thursday, Feb. 20. Admission to the Clark is free for all visitors through March 30, 0 Comments
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Williamstown's ABC Clothing Shop Invites Grant Applications| 02:50PM / Thursday, February 13, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The ABC Clothing Shop at 30 Spring St. distributes the profits from its sale of gently used high quality clothing twice a year to charitable causes that contribute to the well-being of the community. The deadline for spring grant applications is March 1, 2025 and community organizations that meet the grant criteria are invited to apply for grants of up to $5000. Interested agencies will find the simple application and funding criteria available online at abcclothingshop.org/grants. While helping the environment by recycling, ABC funds local charitable organizations that serve youth and families at risk and address 0 Comments
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Clark Art Presents Gallery Tours With Emerging Art Historians | 11:20AM / Thursday, February 13, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday, Feb. 21 at noon, the Clark Art Institute presents a special tour as part of its Fresh Takes series. Enjoy a new look at old favorites in the Clark's permanent collection as a Williams College graduate student shares their take on an object with the perspective of new scholarship. Tours begin in the Museum Pavilion. Free; no registration is required. For more information, visit clarkart.edu/events. Admission to the Clark is free January through March 2025.
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Clark Art Screens 'Girlfriends'| 08:11AM / Thursday, February 13, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, Feb. 20, the Clark Art Institute screens the latest installment in its Hollywood Auteurs film series, "Girlfriends" (1978), at 6 pm in the Manton Research Center auditorium. Presented in partnership with Images Cinema, this series captures the explosion of creativity, critical acclaim, and box office success that Hollywood directors found after the fall of the studio system. According to a press release: When her best friend and roommate abruptly moves out of their Manhattan apartment to get married, Susan (Melanie Mayron) finds herself adrift in both life and love. A wonder of American independent cinema by Claudia Weill (who, when
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