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Clark Art Performance By Garcia Peoples, Mountain Movers | 08:00AM / Wednesday, June 19, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute continues its Music on the Moltz Terrace concert series with a performance by Garcia Peoples on Sunday, June 23. Mountain Movers opens. The free concert takes place on the Lunder Center at Stone Hill's Moltz Terrace at 5 pm. According to a press release: The dynamic band Garcia Peoples, featuring guitarists and vocalists Tom Malach and Danny Arakaki, drummer Cesar Arakaki, bassists Andy Cush and Derek Spaldo, and keyboardist P.G. Six., was formed in Rutherford, New Jersey. The group takes inspiration from the improvisational and psychedelic jam bands of the 1960s. With a stash of live recordings accumulating 0 Comments
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On a IV-II Vote, Mount Greylock Keeps Latin ProgramBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:04AM / Wednesday, June 19, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A divided Mount Greylock Regional School Committee on Tuesday voted to restore the middle-high school's Latin program for the 2024-25 academic year and beyond. Six members of the committee attended the special meeting called last week to decide on whether to keep Mount Greylock a two-world language school or only offer Spanish to incoming seventh-graders starting in the fall. Steven Miller moved at the outset of Tuesday's session that the School Committee utilize more or less $66,000 from the committee's reserves to close a funding gap for fiscal year 2025 and commit to funding Latin until at least next year's seventh-graders have 0 Comments
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Williamstown Con Comm Clears Summer Street SubdivisionBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:18AM / Tuesday, June 18, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Conservation Commission last week gave its approval for a four-home subdivision on a town-owned parcel on Summer Street. Northern Berkshire Habitat for Humanity was before the board with a notice of intent to build a 260-foot road with four associated building lots on a parcel currently owned by the town's Affordable Housing Trust. The road and some of the home lots are planned in the buffer zone of a bordering vegetated wetland on the lot currently known as 0 Summer St. Habitat plans to build four single-family, one-story homes priced for residents making up to 60 percent of the area median income on the parcel. The non-profit hopes 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock Committee Accepts ARPA Offer, Sets Vote on LatinBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
07:18AM / Sunday, June 16, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee on Thursday moved forward with a proposal to fund a consultant with about $66,000 of Williamstown's American Rescue Plan Act funds. Meanwhile, it held off on a decision about whether to resuscitate the middle-high school's Latin program, scheduling a special meeting for Tuesday, June 18, to make that call. The 4-0-1 vote on the DEI consultant work came after the Select Board earlier in the week affirmed its support for the idea, which was brought to both the town and school district by parents concerned about the school district's policies about and response to "bias-based, hate, bullying 0 Comments
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Clark Highlights Work, Revolutionary Spirit of Underappreciated MasterBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
06:33AM / Saturday, June 15, 2024 | |
Clark Art Institute Deputy Director Esther Bell discusses the exhibition 'Guillaume Lethiere,' a partnership of the Clark and the Louvre in Paris. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Favorite artist of Napoleon's brother, director of the Academy of France in Rome, friend to the novelist Alexandre Dumas and revolutionary Marquis de Lafayette, Guillaume Lethiere was a prolific and influential painter who cast a long shadow over the art world in Paris in the first decades of the 19th century. Since then, Lethiere's own legacy largely has been overshadowed. This summer, the Clark Art Institute is doing its part to bring Lethiere to 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock Super Taking Principal Job in Great Barrington| 09:45AM / Friday, June 14, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — After years of leading school districts, Jason "Jake" McCandless is taking a step back to focus on a single school. Mount Greylock Regional's superintendent will take over as principal at W.E.B. Du Bois Regional Middle School in Great Barrington on July 1, according to a report in the Berkshire Edge. McCandless tendered his resignation last month from Mount Greylock after four years at the helm and just one year into his current contract. He had previously been superintendent of the Pittsfield Public Schools and in Lee. The Berkshire Edge reports the Berkshire Hills Regional School District announced the hiring via press 0 Comments
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Clark Art Celebrates Juneteenth | 08:02AM / Friday, June 14, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Wednesday, June 19, the Clark Art Institute celebrates Juneteenth with art-making and music. From 1 to 3 pm, drop in for a free art-making event inspired by contemporary artist David-Jeremiah's exhibition "I Drive Thee." According to a press release: In these works, the artist reflects on his experience of Black masculinity in America through large-format, semi-abstract sculptural reliefs and explores the symbolism of the Lamborghini sports car and the Spanish bullfight in contemplating questions of race—the first as a symbol of prestige and performance, the second as a spectacle of power and persecution. Make an 0 Comments
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Williamstown Commons Resident Marks 106th BirthdayBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:17AM / Friday, June 14, 2024 | |
Eva Maruco with her sons Francis Maruco of North Adams police and Philip Maruco who flew from Kansas City to celebrate her 106th birthday. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Surrounded by family on Thursday and with balloons adorning her wheelchair, Williamstown Commons resident Eva Maruco celebrated her 106th birthday. "You're a popular lady today," her niece leaned in to tell her. "I wonder why," Maruco answered. There was little wonder why the North Adams native's life was worth celebrating as her family members shared reminiscences at the midday gathering. Maruco, born Eva Decoteau, was the mother of three boys along with her 0 Comments
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Williamstown to Take Up Regulations for Sidewalk DiningBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
12:27PM / Thursday, June 13, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board on Monday got a preview of one of the first decisions it will face in the coming weeks: whether and how to regulate outdoor dining in public spaces in the town. Town Manager Robert Menicocci told the board that the Legislature recently permanently enshrined some of the pandemic-era loosening of regulations around outdoor alcohol and food service for businesses holding indoor licenses. Nothing changes for businesses that serve customers in outdoor spaces on private property — like the Taconic Golf Club, for example. But the new legislation does open up, on a permanent basis, the possibility for more table service on sidewalks 0 Comments
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Williams College Activists 'Disappointed' in Decision not to DivestiBerkshires.com Staff,
05:02AM / Thursday, June 13, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN. Mass. – Williams College students pressuring the school to divest from companies that sell weapons to the Israeli Defense Forces say they will continue those calls in the wake of a June vote by the school’s trustees. “We want to express that we are deeply disappointed in President [Maud] Mandel and the Board of Trustees over this decision, but we are not surprised by the college’s continued tendency towards inaction,” a member of the college’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine wrote in an email this week. The student group was responding to a 1,200-word open letter from Mandel and the chair of Williams’ Board 0 Comments
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Williamstown Select Board Discusses Justice Department Program for SchoolsBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
03:25PM / Wednesday, June 12, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board on Monday discussed inviting a U.S. Department of Justice program into the local public schools to help address bias incidents. Randal Fippinger told his colleagues about the DOJ's "School-SPIRIT" initiative, which is similar to but not a part of the federal agency's Strengthening Police and Community Partnerships program, which came to Williamstown two years ago. SPIRIT, which stands for Student Problem Identification and Resolution of Issues Together, involves bringing trained facilitators from the DOJ to the schools to lead conversations addressing "tension and conflict related to issues of race, color, 0 Comments
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