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Clark Art Screens 'Stellet Licht'| 07:55AM / Friday, April 04, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, April 10, the Clark Art Institute continues its Small Town film series with a subtitled screening of Stellet Licht (2007) at 6 pm in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: Bookended by a sunrise and a sunset, Carlos Reygadas' film unfolds gradually and beautifully. Set and filmed in a German Mennonite community in Chihuahua, Mexico and with dialogue in the Mennonite dialect Plautdietsch, the film follows the simple story of a married man, Johan, (Cornelio Wall Fehr), who has fallen in love with another woman, Marianne, (Maria Pankratz), to the consternation of his wife Esther (Miriam Toews). The film 0 Comments
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Williamstown Fire District Inks 3-Year Deal with New ChiefBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:38PM / Thursday, April 03, 2025 | |
Jeffrey Dias of the Onset Fire Department has signed a contract to become Williamstown's fire chief. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The town's next fire chief says he was "ecstatic" when he heard that he would be offered the post. On Tuesday afternoon, the Prudential Committee ratified a contract to make Jeffrey Dias the successor to Chief Craig Pedercini, who retired from the post on Monday. "It's very sad to leave someplace you've been the better part of three decades," said Dias, currently the deputy chief and a long-time firefighter in the South Shore community of Onset. "But I'm very excited. A lot of big things are 0 Comments
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Clark Art Lecture On Museum Education and Ukrainian National Identity| 08:05AM / Thursday, April 03, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, April 8, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program presents a talk by Svitlana Tymkiv (City Museum of Lviv, Ukraine / Futures Fellow) titled "Museum Education as a Factor in the Formation of National Identity." This free event takes place at 5:30 pm in the Manton Research Center auditorium. According to a press release: Tymkiv examines how issues of national identity in Ukraine have become particularly relevant in the country since the outbreak of the full-scale war. In 2010, studies showed that in eastern Ukraine, the vast majority of the population self-identified as carriers of combined 0 Comments
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Williamstown Community Chest 98th Annual Meeting| 10:17AM / Wednesday, April 02, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williamstown Community Chest announced its 98th annual meeting on Tuesday, April 8, 2025 at 8:30 a.m. at The Williams Inn, 101 Spring Street. The meeting's agenda includes election of Community Chest board members and officers, a brief review of highlights of the year, a report on the results of the 2024-2025 annual fundraising campaign, and an update on new initiatives. Karen Baumbach, executive director of Ecu-Health Care, and Christopher McLaughlin, executive director of Elder Services of Berkshire County will share perspectives on "Navigating Health Care Infrastructure." Ecu-Health Care and Elder Services are two of 0 Comments
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Clark Art Institute to Host First Sunday Free: Artists' Books Day| 07:33AM / Wednesday, April 02, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute will present its First Sunday Free series on Sunday, April 6, coinciding with Artists' Books Day. The event will feature free admission and activities throughout the day, focusing on the Clark's collection of over 5,000 artists' books. Activities include: Clark Book Expo: From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Michael Conforti Pavilion, the Clark will host a Book Expo featuring regional artists, practitioners, and artists' book publishers. Participating entities include Antler Editions, Draw Down Books, Ghost Proposal, Horse Gurl Press, Kareem Michael Worrell, Kylie Gellatly, La Horchata Zine, Looky Here, Messenger Press,
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Concerns Over PFAS Spark Sewage Debate in WilliamstownBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:50AM / Tuesday, April 01, 2025 | |
The composting facility at the intermunicipal wastewater plant is operating at about two-thirds capacity. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Forever chemicals are the source of a protracted debate for the Select Board. Out of 15 fiscal articles on the warrant for the annual town meeting in May, the board last Monday voted to recommend passage of 14. It delayed its decision on Article 5, which concerns the budget for the sewer department, more specifically the town's share of operating costs for the Hoosac Water Quality District. Some members of the community, including a member of the Select Board, say the district is choosing a course of action that is at odds 0 Comments
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Clark Art Free Gallery Tours For Parents and Infants | 11:22AM / Sunday, March 30, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, April 5 at 10:15 am, the Clark Art Institute hosts the next in its series of free tours of its permanent collection galleries designed specifically to meet the interests of new parents/caregivers and their infants. Participants should meet at the Clark's main admissions desk. The program is specially designed to provide new parents and caregivers with a stress-free experience that offers chances to socialize with others who are caring for young infants. The guided gallery tour offers an informal visit to the Clark's permanent collection free from any concerns about short attention spans or fussy babies. Works by a 0 Comments
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Transgender Athlete Issue Hits Home for County ResidentsBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
07:45AM / Sunday, March 30, 2025 | |
City Councilor Ashley Shade leads a recent meeting of the North Adams City Council. The McCann graduate says she benefited from participating in athletics. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — For Noah Greenfield, a potentially difficult part of life was made easier by sports. Greenfield competed on the girls cross country and Nordic ski teams at Mount Greylock Regional School as a ninth-grader, leading the Mounties to a skiing state championship in 2017. Greenfield finished his high school career competing for Mount Greylock's boys teams after transitioning to his true identity. "It was something that I started thinking about around sixth or seventh grade but 0 Comments
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Williamstown Fire District Looks at Potential Budget HikeBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
12:42PM / Saturday, March 29, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Prudential Committee on Wednesday took a first look at a draft fiscal year 2026 budget that would increase the operating budget by 27 percent from the year that ends on June 30. Fire District Treasurer Billie Jo Sawyer walked the committee through a spending plan that it will review in April before sending to the annual district meeting in May. The FY25 operating budget of $542,901 represented a 3.5 percent increase over the prior year. The budget the committee looked at on Wednesday would raise the bottom line to $686,991. Several of the line items would see sizable percentage jumps if the committee goes forward with the plan on 0 Comments
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Clark Art Screens 'Shotgun Stories'| 07:59AM / Friday, March 28, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, April 3, the Clark Art Institute continues its Small Town film series with a screening of Shotgun Stories (2007) at 6 pm in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: Shotgun Stories hinges on the death of a father and the revenge of his sons. The sons he abandoned, a band of misfit brothers headed by Son (Michael Shannon), crash his funeral, which prompts the sons he had with his new wife to seek revenge. While the “dead-ass town” that the two branches of the family share is vague and seemingly sprawling, their blood feud binds them claustrophobically together. It’s an age-old problem, a town
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Williamstown Asked to Ban Smoking in Apartments, CondosBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:17AM / Friday, March 28, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Board of Health on Monday learned that town meeting will be asked to outlaw smoking in most multi-family housing. William Raymond of 189 Stratton Road told the board that he has submitted a citizen's petition to ask the annual town meeting to enact a bylaw that would ban smoking in apartments and condominiums except for those that are owner-occupied with up to four units. "These requirements are in effect at Highland Woods, Proprietor's Field and the Meadowvale housing complex," Raymond told the board. "I'm only asking for the same protection that subsidized housing people get in the town." Raymond detailed 0 Comments
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Letter: Threats to ImmigrantsLetter to the Editor,
02:00PM / Thursday, March 27, 2025 | |
 To the Editor:
In 1850, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, seeking to use a federal law to override the "sanctuary" policies of free states that provided safety to anyone fleeing bondage who crossed their state lines. However, the newly empowered federal marshals (and a number of private citizens) not only went after those who had fled their chains, but stopped anyone whose skin tone was insufficiently pale. Even if the "suspect" presented evidence of free status, they could see their papers ripped up and be sent into slavery. Today, 175 years later, does this begin to sound familiar? Anne Skinner
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