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Williamstown Health Board Considers Local Rule on 'Flavored' Tobacco
By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
12:20PM / Tuesday, December 03, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Board of Health on Monday heard a suggestion that the town code be updated to allow the local authority to bar the sale of items that run afoul of the commonwealth's prohibition of flavored tobacco products.   Jim Wilusz of the Lee-based Tri-Town Health Department met with the board via Zoom during its monthly meeting.   Wilusz runs a Tobacco Awareness Program that serves 12 Berkshire County towns plus the cities of North Adams and Pittsfield.   He explained that in June, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health determined that five products labeled "non-menthol" in order to make them salable in the commonwealth in fact met

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Clark Art Screens 'Bonnie and Clyde'
08:18AM / Tuesday, December 03, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, Dec. 5, the Clark Art Institute kicks off its ten-part New Hollywood Auteurs film series with a screening of "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) at 6 pm in the Manton Research Center auditorium.    Presented in partnership with Images Cinema, each film is introduced by a staff member of the Clark or Images.   According to a press release:   Half comic fairy tale, half brutal fact, "Bonnie and Clyde" is based upon the Barrow Gang that terrorized the South in the 1930s. Part of the changing of the guard in Hollywood, the film ushered in an era of violent and sexually liberated film making. Although Truffaut’s style

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Hancock Holds Inaugural Tree Lighting
By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
07:21PM / Sunday, December 01, 2024

Town Secretary Jan Lillie provided the impetus for the new town Christmas tree.   HANCOCK, Mass. — Scores of residents turned out Saturday evening to ring in a new town tradition.   A light coating of snow was on the ground, and holiday spirit was in the air as Hancock lit its new town Christmas tree on the lawn in front of Town Hall.   Selectmen Chair Sherman Derby credited Town Secretary Jan Lillie with the inspiration to create an opportunity for residents to celebrate the season and have a permanent symbol to light up the night sky throughout December.   Over the summer, a tree was transplanted from a resident's home to the seat

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Clark Art Presents Holiday Walk Weekend Concert
08:05AM / Friday, November 29, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute kicks off Williamstown's 41st Holiday Walk Weekend with a festive concert featuring singer Wanda Houston and the Wanda Houston Project.    The concert begins at 6 pm on Friday, Dec. 6 in the Manton Research Center auditorium.    Tickets $10 ($8 members, $7 students, $5 children 15 and under). Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524. For tickets and more information, visit clarkart.edu/events.

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Clark Art Lecture On Photography and Antiblackness
08:34AM / Thursday, November 28, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, Dec. 3, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program presents "Photography, Antiblackness, and the Politics of the Visual," a lecture by Kimberly Juanita Brown, Director of the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life and Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College.    According to a press release:   This free event takes place at 5:30 pm in the Manton Research Center auditorium. Brown examines photography's long history as tethered to global histories of antiblackness that have ritualized ways of seeing for the viewing public. She unpacks what she calls a

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Williamstown Fire District to Post Chief's Position
By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
12:09PM / Wednesday, November 27, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Fire District's Personnel Committee on Monday finalized a job description for the next chief and agreed to post the job with an eye toward getting a new leader in the door by March.   That is when Craig Pedercini is set to turn 65 and retire from a department he has served for 37 years — the last 22 as chief.   On Monday, the five-person Personnel Committee agreed to post the position by Dec. 1 with the hope to begin screening applicants in early January, though it left open the possibility of beginning the screening process earlier depending on the response rate.   The panel's goal is to present a small group of finalists to

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Clark Art Presents First Sunday Free: Lights, Camera Landscape
08:00AM / Tuesday, November 26, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute First Sunday Free series continues on Sunday, Dec. 1 from 1 to 4 pm.    December's theme is "Lights, Camera, Landscape!"   According to a press release:   Contemporary artist Abelardo Morell engages with history, place, and nature in his colorful images, reflecting Claude Monet and John Constable's influence on him. Artists often draw inspiration from each other's work, and we do, too! Taking inspiration from the layers in Morell's works, experiment with creating transparent drawings that can overlap in surprising ways. Then, from the ground up, document place and perspective through a

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Mount Greylock Regional School District First Quarter Honor Roll
07:40AM / Monday, November 25, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The total school enrollment is 537, of which 362 have made the Honor Roll for the first quarter.    Honor Roll   Grade 12 Emily Alvarez, Marshall Baya, Nicholas Bellora, Jayne Beringer, Oliver Bingemann, Caelan Briggs, Claire Burrow, Aleksei Chang, Olivia Cook, Vera de Jong, Kaeya Durley, Mia Filiault, Katherine Goss, Gavin Hetherington, Chase Hoey, Charlotte Holubar, William Igoe, Jaclynn Kastrinakis, Caliegh Kiernan, Noah Klompus, Malia Koffi, Jaden Lash-St. John, Kelsey MacHaffie, Mila Marcisz, Rafael Mellow-Bartels, Cameron Miller, Arthur Millet, Liam Noyes, Mai O'Connor, Mia Patrick, Natalie Pesce, Erik Powell-Bechtel, Polly Rhie, Noah

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Williamstown Con Comm Approves Hopkins Bridge Replacement
By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:21PM / Sunday, November 24, 2024

The new bridge structure will be wide enough for a trail maintenance machine. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Williams College last week got the green light from the town to replace a bridge in the trail system for Hopkins Forest.   Hopkins Forest Manager Elise Leduc-Fleming was in front of the Conservation Commission seeking an order of conditions to replace the bridge at the top of the nature area's upper loop trail, near the trailhead for the Birch Brook Trail.   "One of the three stringers [on the existing bridge] is cracked and broken," Leduc-Fleming said, referring to the beams that support the bridge under the walking surface. "When I arrived for my

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Hancock School Celebrates Thanksgiving by Highlighting Community
By Sabrina Damms, iBerkshires Staff
07:51AM / Sunday, November 24, 2024

The children perform music and a play during the luncheon. HANCOCK, Mass. — For many, Thanksgiving is a time for gratitude and unity. Hancock Elementary School embraced this spirit on Thursday by hosting a community Thanksgiving feast for seniors.   The children had a major role in organizing the event, from peeling the potatoes to creating the centerpieces to performing.    "Thanksgiving is a time to be thankful for what we have. To be thankful for the communities that we live in. Thankful for the families that we have, our friends," Principal John Merselis III said.    "And by opening our doors and inviting people in, I think we just

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Swann, Williams Women Place Third at Natinoals
07:21PM / Saturday, November 23, 2024
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- The Williams College women's cross country team Saturday placed third at the NCAA Division III Championships.   Mount Greylock alumna Kate Swann was the third Williams runner across the finish line, placing 33rd.   Williams' men placed 10th out of 32 teams in their DIII National Championship race.

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Holiday Hours: Thanksgiving
01:04PM / Saturday, November 23, 2024

Plymouth's statue of Massasoit, who was instrumental in Plymouth Colony's survival, looks out over the Plymouth Rock monument. Image via SeePlymouth.com.

Thanksgiving will be observed on Thursday, Nov. 28. The day is a national holiday inspired by the first Thanksgiving dinner shared between the Pilgrims and Wampanoags in 1621 at Plymouth. The living history museum Plimoth Patuxet continues the tradition each year with a recreation of the event in which visitors can participate. 

Thanksgiving was first federally recognized by proclamation in 1863 by President Lincoln at the height of the Civil War. It did not become codified as a national holiday until 1941, when President

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