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Williamstown FY25 Tax Bills Up Slightly, Tax Rate Falls AgainBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:25AM / Friday, August 16, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The median property tax bill for fiscal year 2025 is expected to see its lowest year-to-year increase since 2019, the Select Board learned on Monday night. Assessor Christopher Lamarre laid out the tax ramifications of the FY25 town budget at the board's annual tax classification hearing. The tax levy, the total property tax collected by the town, is up just 1.3 percent from FY24. The levy is what the town needs to raise to cover the budget approved at the spring's annual town meeting. In FY24, the fiscal year that ended on June 30, the levy was $20.3 million; for FY25, that number is up to $20.6 million, the smallest year-to-year 0 Comments
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WCMA Awarded Grant To Support Energy Efficiency in New Building| 04:00PM / Thursday, August 15, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williams College Museum of Art has received a grant from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation to implement Direct Digital Controls (DDC) in the new museum building to optimize the energy efficiency of the building's heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system.
WCMA was one of 69 arts organizations across the country selected to receive a grant through the Frankenthaler Climate Initiative (FCI), which conferred a total of $3.3M this year. Dedicated to advancing climate action in the visual arts, FCI supports a wide range of transformative energy-efficiency and environmental sustainability projects that help arts organizations assess, develop, 0 Comments
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Clark Art Invites Visitors To Meet CATA Artists| 08:23AM / Thursday, August 15, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, Aug. 20 at 1 pm, the Clark Art Institute invites visitors to meet the CATA artists featured in "I Am a Part of Art" and participate in community art-making activities. The event takes place in Hunter Studio, located in the Lunder Center at Stone Hill. The annual exhibition presented by Community Access to the Arts (CATA) and the Clark, "I Am a Part of Art," celebrates the work of artists with disabilities. Spend the afternoon with the artists featured in the exhibit, learning and creating together as they share their approaches to making art. Materials will be available for visitors to experiment with the 0 Comments
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Williamstown Select Board Seeks Applicants to Fill VacancyBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:50AM / Thursday, August 15, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board on Monday issued a call for volunteers to occupy an upcoming vacancy on the five-person panel. By a unanimous vote, the board set a Sept. 9 deadline for residents to submit a "government engagement" form and any accompanying materials for consideration. The board then plans to hear from applicants in open session and potentially vote on a replacement at a special meeting on Sept. 16. The successful applicant will serve in the seat being vacated by Andrew Hogeland until the May annual town election, when the appointee will be able to run to serve the remaining year left on Hogeland's term, which expires in spring 0 Comments
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Waubeeka Plans Glowball Tournament for CharityBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
12:27PM / Wednesday, August 14, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Golfers will light up the night sky and support a charity that helps underserved communities around the world at Waubeeka Golf Links this week. Waubeeka will host a Glowball Tournament on Saturday, Aug. 17, from 7 to 10 p.m., to benefit Hope International, a Pennsylvania-based Christian charity dedicated to sharing "the hope of Christ as we provide biblically based training, savings services, and loans that restore dignity and break the cycle of poverty." Chris Kapiloff, who purchased the golf course earlier this year, has firsthand experience with Hope International, having picked and roasted coffee beans alongside residents of Rwanda on 0 Comments
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Clark Art: Spore Into Specimen Workshop| 08:20AM / Wednesday, August 14, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On August 17 at 1 pm, the Clark Art Institute's Andrea Puccio, director of the library, and Terri Boccia, collections development librarian, lead a tour of rare books in the Clark library's collection featuring mushrooms. The workshop takes place in the scholars' seminar room, located in the Manton Research Center. Jan Rolin from Mycoterra Farm (South Deerfield, Massachusetts) teaches participants about the mushroom lifecycle and how to harvest their own mushrooms using a grow-at-home kit. Learn how mushrooms can help us both environmentally and physically as you discover how to pick, store, and cook the mushrooms you 0 Comments
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Williamstown Planning Board Reduces Parking Lot for Art MuseumBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:23PM / Monday, August 12, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Williams College will be back before the Zoning Board of Appeals on Thursday for a development plan review for the school's planned art museum at the Field Park rotary. The ZBA last month held off on making any final determinations about the project, in part because it was waiting on a parking determination from the Planning Board, which was to have considered the college's parking plan on July 16 in a meeting that was canceled due to a blackout that impacted town hall. The Planning Board rescheduled its meeting for July 24 and, after a lengthy back and forth with college officials, accepted on a vote of 3-0 a parking plan that calls for 63 0 Comments
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Mass DEP Officials Visit Hoosic Riverbank Stabilization SiteBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
11:50AM / Sunday, August 11, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Conservation Commission on Thursday heard that the town is making progress on gaining approval for a riverbank stabilization plan near North Street. Community Development Director Andrew Groff told the panel that officials from the Department of Environmental Protection visited the portion of the Hoosic River where the town has needed to do an emergency stabilization in December 2019. Groff, who also is the town's conservation agent, said that DEP did a site visit on Tuesday as part of the appeal of a Con Comm decision on a proposed subdivision off Summer Street. While the state officials were in town, Groff invited them to make the short 0 Comments
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Hogeland Stepping Down from Williamstown Select BoardBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
07:19AM / Saturday, August 10, 2024 | |
Andrew Hogeland with fellow board member Jane Patton in 2019. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — For nearly two decades, Andrew Hogeland has demonstrated a sense of civic duty and a commitment to his adopted hometown. It took an even greater commitment to lead him to end his time in town government. "I think people recognize that grandchildren are very valuable things," Hogeland said Friday when asked about the reaction he's received to Thursday's announcement that he is resigning mid-term from the Select Board. Hogeland posted Thursday on Facebook that he and his wife, Anne, are relocating to Connecticut later this year to be closer to 0 Comments
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Clark Art: Outdoor Screening of 'My Life as a Zucchini'| 07:55AM / Friday, August 09, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Aug. 14 at 8:10 pm, the Clark Art Institute presents a free outdoor screening of "My Life as a Zucchini" (2016) as part of its summer series of films that resonate with the themes of the exhibition Guillaume Lethière. According to a press release: After his mother's sudden death, Zucchini is befriended by a police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home, filled with other orphans his age. Brought to life through memorable character designs and expressive stop-motion animation, this story soars with laughter, sorrow, and joy, and stands as a testament to the resilience of the human heart. (Rated PG-13. Run 0 Comments
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Berkshire Ajax Soccer Club Sets Tryouts| 03:24PM / Thursday, August 08, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Tryouts for the Berkshire Ajax Soccer Club take place on Sunday, Aug. 11, for children born between 2006 and 2012. Girls' tryouts are from 9:15 to 10:30 a.m. and boys' are from 10:45 to noon. Location is the Farley-Lamb Field at the Weston Field complex. Register at berkshireajax.com; fill out forms and waivers. Any questions, contact Mike Russo at 413-441-6127 or trusso@williams.edu. 0 Comments
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Clark Art Presents the Modern Opera 'Rome is Falling'| 08:17AM / Wednesday, August 07, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Aug. 10, the Clark Art Institute presents "Rome is Falling," a modern opera composed by American Modern Opera Company (AMOC*) member Doug Balliett. The event takes place at 4 pm in the Clark’s auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: Rome was one of the greatest civilizations in the world; yet, like all empires, it fell. Why, and how? The story is a mixture of politics, betrayal, immigration, religion, climate, pandemic, natural disaster, xenophobia, and bad luck (in short, everything human, and everything we face today). Rome is Falling is a zany lesson on the absurdity of what 0 Comments
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