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Mount Greylock District to Towns: 'We're Going to Need Help'By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:52AM / Tuesday, March 05, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Mount Greylock Regional School District officials are predicting budgetary storm clouds in years to come even as they prepare a fiscal year 2025 spending plan that may seem placid to town officials and town meeting voters this spring. At a special meeting of the School Committee to hold a budget workshop, Assistant Superintendent Joseph Bergeron last week showed the panel a draft FY25 budget that calls for a 3.01 increase in the assessment to Lanesborough and a 3.54 percent hike for Williamstown. That would represent about the same increase Lanesborough saw for FY24, the fiscal year that ends on June 30. And in Williamstown, where the assessment 0 Comments
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WCMA to Host a Forum on New Museum Building Project| 08:01AM / Monday, March 04, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) invites the community to a forum to learn more about the new museum building project at 6 p.m. Monday, March 11. The forum, which will be held in the Williams Inn Ballroom, will serve to share the new museum designs and project logistics with the Williams and regional community and provide a platform for their thoughts and feedback as important stakeholders in the process of building WCMA's new home. The new Williams College Museum of Art is conceived to serve the college, the local community and visitors to the Berkshires. The new museum will be a space designed with students in mind, fostering a sense 0 Comments
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Clark Art 'Be A Member' For the Day | 08:00AM / Monday, March 04, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, March 9 from 10 am–5 pm, the Clark Art Institute invites all its visitors to "be a member" for the day. According to a press release: Learn what it means to be a part of a group of art lovers who meet here for experiences that cannot be found anywhere else. Enjoy free admission, discounts in the Museum Store and Café 7, and introductory talks in the permanent collection and the 50 Years and Forward: Works on Paper Acquisitions exhibition, which closes the following day (March 10). Clark members receive free year-round admission to the Clark plus exclusive access to member-only benefits, discounts, and 0 Comments
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Williams Men Win in Second Round of NCAA Tourney| 10:23PM / Saturday, March 02, 2024 | |
OSWEGO, N.Y. -- Cole Prowitt-Smith hit a lay-up with seven seconds left Saturday to give the Williams College men's basketball team a 79-77 win over SUNY Oswego in the second round of the NCAA Division III tournament. Prowitt-Smith scored a game-high 27 points. Nate Karren scored 21 points and grabbed eight rebounds. Dalton's Brandon Roughley had six points and five boards for Williams (23-6), which moves on to face Christopher Newport next week in the Sweet 16. Men's Lacrosse WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Matthew Johnson scored with about nine minutes left to give Williams a 14-13 win over Babson in its season opener. Calvin Caputo led Williams with 0 Comments
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Images Cinema Celebrates Practical FX in Films| 12:28PM / Saturday, March 02, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Images Cinema announced its first slate of repertory programming for 2024, a celebration of special effects pre-CGI, also known as practical FX. These special effects include puppets, animatronics, stop motion, and hand-drawn animation integrated seamlessly with live action performances. Executive director Dan Hudson said, "Special effects of the 80s and 90s are some of the best effects of all time. There is a reason these films still hold up, and we're stoked to celebrate them with you on the big screen here at Images." The CINEMA REDUX series features work of Phil Tippett, Stan Winston, and Lyle Conway, some of the 0 Comments
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Williams Men's Basketball Opens DIII Tournament with Win| 11:28PM / Friday, March 01, 2024 | |
OSWEGO, N.Y. -- Williams College's Nate Karren scored 11 points, including the 1,000th of his college career, in a 77-51 win over DeSales on Friday in the first round of the NCAA Division III Tournament. Cole Prowitt-Smith led Williams in points, with 14, and rebounds, with nine. And Alex Lee scored 13. Williams (22-6) moves on to face host Oswego State on Saturday evening in the second round. 0 Comments
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Clark Art Screens Live Production of La Forza Del Destino| 11:59AM / Friday, March 01, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Metropolitan Opera's broadcast of "La Forza del Destino" airs at the Clark Art Institute on Saturday, March 9 at 11:55 am in the latest installment of The Met: Live in HD. The award-winning series of live, high-definition cinema simulcasts features the full live performance along with backstage interviews and commentary. The Clark broadcasts the opera in its auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads Verdi's grand tale of ill-fated love, deadly vendetta, and family strife. Stellar soprano Lise Davidsen makes her role debut as 0 Comments
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Clark Art Presents Scottish Dance Tunes Concert| 08:00AM / Friday, March 01, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday, March 8 at 7 pm, the Clark Art Institute presents the musical ensemble Ruckus and their concert The Edinburgh Rollick: Music from the Niel Gow Collections, featuring Keir GoGwilt on violin. The concert takes place in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: Ruckus, a shapeshifting group with a playful approach to classical music, explores the legacy of Niel Gow, eighteenth-century Scotland's most celebrated fiddler. His son Nathaniel further combined traditional and original dance tunes under the Gow name in six collections of strathspeys and reels. Ruckus and 0 Comments
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Williamstown Select Board Talks Utilization, Potential Transfer of Spruces ParkBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
04:52AM / Friday, March 01, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Spruces Park was a major topic of conversation for the Select Board at its Monday meeting, where board members heard from constituents who want to continue running their dogs off leash in the park and heard a proposal to transfer control of the property away from the board. For the second straight meeting, dog owners came to the meeting room to advocate for continued unleashed use of the 114-acre park on Main Street (Route 2). This time, the conversation was framed by a proposal to designate up to 80 acres of the property for access by unleashed dogs with the remaining 34 acres (about 30 percent) requiring dogs to be on a leash. Select 0 Comments
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Clark Art Screens the 'Neverending Story'| 10:56AM / Thursday, February 29, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, March 7, the Clark Art Institute hosts a free screening of the 1984 film "The NeverEnding Story" 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: Wolfgang Peterson's classic film celebrates the way that books allow you to build worlds around yourself. When Bastian ducks into a book to avoid school bullies, he finds himself saddled with a great responsibility. As he imagines himself the hero of the story, reading becomes an engine for maturation and growth. In 0 Comments
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Clark Art Presents Lecture on Anonymous 18th Century Black Portrait| 08:04AM / Wednesday, February 28, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, March 5 at 5:30 pm, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program hosts a lecture by Erica Moiah James (University of Miami / Clark/Oakley Humanities Fellow) in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: In this free talk James provides a study of the anonymous eighteenth-century work "Portrait of a Young Woman" using the material archive provided by the sitter's dress, jewelry, and cotton head-tie to establish her as a Black, Caribbean, creole woman. It seeks to render a "problem space" between historical Black representation and 0 Comments
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Williamstown Fin Comm Begins Review of FY25 Spending PlanBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:03AM / Wednesday, February 28, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The town is looking at a 2.8 percent increase in its property tax levy for the fiscal year that begins on July 1, and members of the Finance Committee last week talked about finding a way to whittle that number down. Town Manager Robert Menicocci presented the Fin Comm with a preliminary budget of $24.8 million for FY25, up 4 percent from the $23.9 million spending plan for the current fiscal year. Factoring out other sources of income for the town, that leaves a local property tax burden of $20.9 million, up from $20.3 million in the current fiscal year, a rise of about $600,000 or 2.8 percent. "I'd like to throw down a goal here 0 Comments
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