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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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Garceau's National Title Highlights Winter Season for Local CollegiansiBerkshires.com Sports,
12:14PM / Thursday, March 27, 2025 | |
 Wahconah graduate and UMass-Boston junior Aryianna Garceau was crowned the school's 21st National Champion at the 2025 NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field National Championships in Rochester, N.Y., posting an historic time of 8.35 seconds in the women's 60-meter hurdles. Her championship-winning performance is an NCAA DIII Championship meet record and places her among the top two hurdlers of all time in NCAA DIII, capping off an unforgettable season. Garceau finished with an astonishing, record-breaking 8.35 seconds finish to conclude the season undefeated against NCAA DIII competition. She now holds a new NCAA DIII Championship Meet Record, surpassing Birgen 0 Comments
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Triplex Cinema, Jacob's Pillow Announce 'The Red Shoes' Screening Fundraiser| 08:57AM / Thursday, March 27, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.—The Triplex Cinema and Jacob's Pillow have announced a special screening of the film "The Red Shoes" to benefit the Triplex Cinema. The screening will take place on Saturday, April 5, at 3:00 PM. Speakers at the event will include Norton Owen, Director of Preservation at Jacob's Pillow, and Lynn Garafola, Professor Emerita of Dance, Barnard College. Tickets are available for $75 at www.thetriplex.org. "The Red Shoes," directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and released in 1948, is a film about ballet. The film underwent a digital restoration at the UCLA Film and Television archive between 2006 and 0 Comments
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Williamstown Scarborough Salmon Flynt Award Request for Nominations| 07:57AM / Thursday, March 27, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Scarborough Salomon Flynt Community Service Award Committee is accepting nominations for its tenth annual award. The Scarborough Salomon Flynt Award recognizes a person's, persons', or civic group's demonstrated dedication, excellence, and integrity in community service in order to make Williamstown a better place. Nominators should provide a narrative of accomplishments in support of their nominee. The award is a result of the merger of the Faith R. Scarborough Award and the Williamstown Community Chest Volunteer of the Year Award. It honors Faith Scarborough and her dedication to the town as an active 0 Comments
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Nomination Deadline Passes for Williamstown ElectionsBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:19AM / Thursday, March 27, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Voters will have two contested races on the ballot when they go to the polls for town elections in May. Tuesday was the deadline to submit nomination papers for 12 positions that will be up for election this spring. The town will see a two-person race for one one-year term on the Select Board and a five-person field running for four three-year seats on the Milne Library Board of Trustees. In all, three seats on the five-member Select Board will be determined in May. Just two candidates submitted papers for the two full three-year seats available: Peter Beck and Matthew Neely. Neely currently is serving a portion of a term that 0 Comments
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Williamstown Select Board Weighs in on FY26 Budget, CPA GrantsBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
11:40AM / Wednesday, March 26, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board on Monday voted to recommend May's town meeting approve most of the fiscal articles on the warrant. The board decided to put off a decision on its recommendation for an article related to the sewer department, and the panel split on whether to support a series of appropriations of Community Preservation Act funds. The fiscal articles, Nos. 3-17 on the warrant, relate to the operation of government and concern, mostly, how to spend money raised through property taxes in the fiscal year that begins on July 1. The Select Board voted to support 14 of those articles on votes of 4-0 on Monday night. The outlier was 0 Comments
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Berkshire Running Foundation Announces 2025 Race CalendarCommunity submission,
11:26AM / Tuesday, March 25, 2025 | |
 PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- The Berkshire Running Foundation recently announced a year-long schedule of races and community engagement. The season kicks off with the MCLA Sam Gomez 5K on Sunday, April 6. “The Berkshire Running Foundation is thrilled to be working with the community partners, MountainOne, Berkshire Health Systems, Spectrum Health and many other local organizations to bring these new and classic events to the Berkshires," Executive Director Shiobbean Lemme said. "The impact the running community makes in the Berkshires continues to grow each year, with our work in since 2011 donating over $330,000 to nonprofits in the Berkshires. We are energized at the 0 Comments
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'Nothing to Report' After Monday Police Search in WilliamstownBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
10:56AM / Tuesday, March 25, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williamstown Police Department conducted a search Monday along the Mohican Trail Shared Use Path in connection to a Dec. 22 shooting. "They were just doing some searching related to some search warrants," Town Manager Robert Menicocci told the Select Board on Monday night. "As far as I understand it, there’s nothing too new to share that was discovered." The shooting incident occurred at the 330 Cole Ave. housing complex, which is abutted by the multipurpose trail. On Monday morning, the WPD posted on social media that there would be, "an increased presence in the area of the multi-use trail (bike path) 0 Comments
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Williamstown Fin Comm OKs Budget with Tax Hike, Lower Non-Profit AllotmentBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:39AM / Monday, March 24, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Finance Committee on Wednesday voted to send town meeting a fiscal year 2026 spending plan that would raise property taxes by more than 7 percent in the year that begins on July 1. The operating budget for town government is slated to go up by 6.1 percent, to just more than $10.6 million, and the bill for the town's public schools (the preK-12 Mount Greylock Regional School District and the Northern Berkshire Vocational Regional School District) is up by 8 percent, to a combined $15,243,392. The main driver for all those increases is a 16 percent cost in health insurance for the labor-intensive business of providing town services and 0 Comments
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