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Last-Minute Goal Lifts Williams Men's Lacrosse at Bates
07:51PM / Saturday, March 09, 2024
LEWISTON, Maine -- Pearse Glavin scored with 10 seconds left Saturday to give the Williams College men's lacrosse team a 15-14 win over Bates.   Glavin scored four goals, and Calvin Caputo had a hat trick in the win.   Matt Wetmore stopped seven shots to earn the win in goal for Williams (2-1, 1-0 NESCAC).   Women's Lacrosse WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Claudia Russell scored four goals Saturday to lead Williams to an 11-0 win over Bates.   Anj Raman and Caroline Pratt split time in goal for Williams, combining to stop eight shots.   Williams (3-0, 1-0), which has outscored its opponents, 40-5, goes to Wesleyan on Saturday.

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Williamstown Theatre Festival Leadership: 'We Have to Give It a Shot'
By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
07:26AM / Saturday, March 09, 2024

Interim Artistic Director Jenny Gersten talks about the 2024 season as WTF Board Vice Chair Joe Finnegan looks on. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williamstown Theatre Festival schedule announced earlier this week features a return to the main stage for the first time since 2019.   But that was not the main emphasis from the leadership team that held a community forum Thursday morning on the Nikos Stage at Williams College's '62 Center for Theatre and Dance.   Rather than talking about a return to what the festival was before the pandemic shutdown, the goal is to build back a better, more sustainable and, by necessity, different WTF as it celebrates 70 years in the

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Williams Men's Basketball Falls in NCAA Tourney
10:43PM / Friday, March 08, 2024
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- The Christopher Newport men's basketball team Friday outscored Williams, 30-21, in the second half to earn a 60-49 win in the third round of the NCAA Division III tournament.   Dalton's Brandon Roughley led Williams with 11 points. Alex Lee scored nine, and Nate Karren had a game-high 16 rebounds.   Williams finishes the season with a record of 23-7.

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Clark Art Presents Lecture on Artist
08:00AM / Friday, March 08, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, March 12 at 5:30 pm, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program hosts "A Less Binary Art History is Possible," a lecture by Kirstin Ringelberg (Elon University / The Kaleta A. Doolin Foundation Fellow).    In this free talk, Ringelberg addresses the once-celebrated (and occasionally reviled) but now largely unknown Belle Époque Parisian artist Madeleine Lemaire (1845–1928). This free lecture takes place in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center.   According to a press release:   Working in a wide variety of genres as a "specialty," Lemaire was sometimes

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Daniel Pearl Scholarship Open for Applications
08:00AM / Friday, March 08, 2024
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Applications are available for the 22nd annual Daniel Pearl Berkshire Scholarship.    The $2,000 award is given in memory of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter kidnapped and killed in Pakistan early in 2002. Pearl earlier worked in the Berkshires at The North Adams Transcript and The Berkshire Eagle.   While Pearl's career was in journalism, he was also a gifted musician, trained as a classical violinist. He played guitar and mandolin as well, and while living in the Berkshires he performed in a bluegrass band. For this reason, the award is given to a student who intends to study and pursue a career in either journalism or

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Williams College Museum Envisions Natural Setting, Sustainability Focus
Staff Reports,
05:32PM / Thursday, March 07, 2024

The college art museum has spent the last century in Lawrence Hall.  WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The new Williams College Museum of Art will be an airy cluster of programming spaces surrounding a central hub for gatherings.    The single-story structure is designed to harmonize with the natural setting across from Field Park, on the former site of the Williams Inn. It is projected to open in 2027, in line with the museum's centennial.   The design by Brooklyn-based firm SO–IL were released on Thursday. A public forum about the museum building project will be held at on Monday, March 11, at 6 p.m. at the new Williams Inn on Spring Street.    The

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Clark Arts Screens 'The Princess Bride'
08:02AM / Thursday, March 07, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. On Thursday, March 14, the Clark Art Institute hosts a free screening of the 1987 film "The Princess Bride" as part of the Williamstown Public Library 150th Anniversary Film Series.   The Clark shows the film at 6 pm in its auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center.   According to a press release:   Rob Reiner's film version of William Goldman's charming novel pits true love against inconceivable odds. A boy home sick from school grudgingly allows his grandfather to read him a dusty storybook—which is how we meet the innocent Buttercup, who is about to marry the nefarious Prince Humperdinck although her heart belongs to

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As Nomination Deadline Nears, No Contested Elections in Williamstown
By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:42AM / Thursday, March 07, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — With three weeks left to submit nomination papers for May's town election, no contested races are shaping up for the ballot as of Wednesday afternoon.   For the lone seat on the five-member Select Board, current Chair Jeffrey Johnson is the only person to take out papers, the town clerk reported. Johnson was elected to his initial three-year term on the body in May 2021.   Samantha Page has taken out nominating papers for the one five-year Planning Board seat on the ballot. Last May, Ben Greenfield was elected to fill the final year of an unexpired term after a resignation.   Laila Boucher has taken out papers to retain her seat on the Northern

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Williamstown Health Inspector Updates Board of Health on Training
By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
06:08PM / Wednesday, March 06, 2024

Board of Health members, from left, Ronald Stant, Jim Parkinson, Win Stuebner, Sandra Goodbody and Devan Bartels participate in Monday morning's meeting. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The town's health inspector Monday updated the Board of Health on training she has been receiving since taking the position in November.   Ruth Russell told the board in a morning meeting at Town Hall that focuses for her have included learning how to do Title 5 septic inspections and food inspections.   "I went to a Title 5 seminar in Taunton last week," Russell said. "I feel like I'm getting there. Two months back, I did two Title 5 inspections in Great Barrington

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Mount Greylock Regional High School Honor Roll
03:37PM / Wednesday, March 06, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.— Mount Greylock Regional School District 2023-2024 2nd Quarter Honor Roll.   The total school enrollment is 553 of which 332 have made Honor Roll for the 2nd quarter.   Grade 12 Ava Anagnos, Lex Anagnos, Thomas Art, Jude Bakija, Phoebe Barnes, Liam Berryman, Mirabel Boyer, Jacqueline Brannan, Emma Brennan, Jose Brito, Kaylie Bryan, Dominic Carnevale, , Sylvie Clowes, Levi Cohen-McFall, Julia DeChaine, Benjamin Dingman, Karlie Dowling, Emily Dupuis, Olivia Filiault, Belen Galvez,, Louis Gotlieb, Che Guerra, Emma Kate Hane, Phoebe Hughes, Jason Jaros, Shea Johnson, Talia Kapiloff, Ece Karakaya, Erin Keating, Ryan Keating, Luka Lash-St. John, Caleb Low,

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Frances Jones-Sneed to Speak at WCMA
12:02PM / Wednesday, March 06, 2024

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.— In conjunction with "Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation"—currently on view at the Williams College Museum of Art—Frances Jones-Sneed, Ph.D., emeritus professor of history at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, will give a talk titled "Being Black and Free: Before and after the Emancipation Proclamation in Berkshire County, Massachusetts' on Thursday, March 7.

The lecture will begin at 6 p.m. at WCMA; the galleries will remain open until 6 p.m. for those who want to visit the exhibition prior to the talk.

Dr. Jones-Sneed has dedicated her life and research to making African American history visible

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Williamstown's Public Library Celebrates 150 Years With Open House
03:23PM / Tuesday, March 05, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The public is invited to celebrate at a 150th Anniversary Open House at the Milne Library, 1095 Main Street in Williamstown on Saturday, March 9, 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.   Attendees can visit with library staff, volunteers, trustees, and Friends.   Trio Café Budapest will entertain with music and Davis Bates, award winning singer and storyteller, will present two programs of participatory folk songs and stories for all ages at 11:15 a.m. and 1:15 p.m.   Robin Brickman, nationally known illustrator and school workshop leader, will present two one-hour bookmark-making workshops for children (ages 5 and up) at 11:15 a.m. and 12:45

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