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Williamstown Library Expands Hours, Offerings
By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:30AM / Friday, September 27, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Big changes have come to the Milne Public Library as the Main Street institution celebrates its 150th year.   Milne Trustees vice chair Jared Della Rocca appeared before the Select Board on Tuesday to detail some of the new initiatives that expand both the library's mission and its access to the community.   One of the most noticeable changes is that the library's doors are, effectively, open six more hours per week.   In past years, the library has been open until 8 p.m. only one day per week, Wednesdays. Now, the Milne's doors are open until 8 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday.   And every day, the library has begun admitting patrons

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Community Contra Dance in Williamstown
12:03PM / Thursday, September 26, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN — The North Berkshire Contra Dance returns to Williamstown on Saturday, Sept. 28, with a community contra dance taught by caller Jeff Walker and New England-style fiddle music.   Contra dancing is the contemporary face of a living tradition; some of the dances are hundreds of years old, some are recently composed.    Everyone is welcome. New dancers and families with children are encouraged to arrive at 7:30 pm for an introductory lesson. Come with or without a partner; most people change partners for each dance throughout the evening.   Kathy and Jeff Walker have been playing New England-style dance music for over 40 years. Kathy plays fiddle and Jeff

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Williamstown Community Chest Annual Fun Run
04:04PM / Wednesday, September 25, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williamstown Community Chest will hold its sixteenth Fun Run on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2024.     This community event consists of two races, a 5K run and a 1-mile kids' run/family walk.     The Fun Run races are open to everyone, veteran or first-time runners, and daily or occasional walkers.  Families with pets and strollers are also welcome to participate.  Both race events begin at 9:00 a.m. at the Williamstown Youth Center, 66 School Street.   Sign-in and registration begin at 8:15 a.m. on the day of the race.  Online registration is available at runsignup.com/Race/MA/Williamstown/CommunityChestAnnualRun

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Mount Greylock Class of 1975 Planning 50th Reunion
01:09PM / Wednesday, September 25, 2024

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional High School class of 1975 has begun the process of planning its 50th class reunion.

Organizers are looking to update the current class list and are reaching out to family, relatives and friends to help in this endeavor. 

What is needed is the graduates' names (maiden name or name change, if applicable) along with email and phone numbers. Email Suzy Gigliotti at weeze56@verizon.net with this information.

Anyone interested in being on the planning committee or having any suggestions as to what you would like as part of the festivities, please note that in your email. Graduates/attendees are

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WCMA Celebrates Fall With Weekend of Programs
12:09PM / Wednesday, September 25, 2024

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) will kick off the fall semester with a weekend of celebrations on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 27 and 28.

On Friday, Sept. 27, from 5 to 7 p.m. visit WCMA to view fall exhibitions, including Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art, curated by C. Ondine Chavoya and David Evans Frantz; Cracking the Cosmic Code: Numerology in Medieval Art, curated by WCMA Assistant Curator Elizabeth Sandoval; SO-IL/WCMA: Building a New Museum, organized by WCMA and SO-IL, the architects designing the new museum building; Pallavi Sen: Colour Theory, curated by former WCMA Mellon Curatorial Fellow Nicholas Liou

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Clark Art Concert By Malik Abdul-Rahmaan and DJ REC
11:34AM / Wednesday, September 25, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute presents an addition to its Music on the Moltz Terrace concert series with performances by Malik Abdul-Rahmaan and DJ REC on Sunday, Sept. 29.    The free concert takes place on the Lunder Center at Stone Hill's Moltz Terrace at 5 pm.   Malik Abdul-Rahmaan, a music producer and prolific record collector, has collaborated with artists such as Ghostface Killah, Pink Siifu, and Oddisee. A veteran of the New York City beat scene and a key figure in Japan's hip-hop movement, he created the ethnomusicological series Field Research, available via Paxico Records.   DJ REC opens. Carlos REC McBride, a Northampton

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Williamstown Select Board Names Neely to Interim Seat
By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:32AM / Wednesday, September 25, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A divided Select Board on Tuesday appointed Matt Neely to an interim seat on the five-member panel.   After more than two hours of discussion, the board voted 3-1 to select Neely after two rounds of voting where the four remaining elected officials were deadlocked, 2-2, on how to replace Andrew Hogeland until May's election.   Chair Jane Patton and Vice Chair Jeffrey Johnson argued repeatedly that the board and town would benefit most from having an experienced former member of the board serve the interim role for the next seven months and voted initially to name Hugh Daley, a former three-term Select Board member who was one of three applicants for

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Clark Art Presents Symposium on Guillaume Lethiere
10:53AM / Tuesday, September 24, 2024

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute presents a one-day symposium on Friday, Sept. 27 in celebration of Guillaume Lethière.

The exhibition, organized in partnership with the Musée du Louvre, is the first to investigate Lethière's extraordinary career. This free event takes place from 9:30 am–6:30 pm in the Manton Research Center auditorium.

The symposium invites scholars and the public to examine Lethière’s body of work together, and to contextualize the presence and reception of Caribbean artists in France in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The event is moderated by Olivier Meslay, Hardymon Director at the

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Clark Art Tour of Impressionist Works
08:10AM / Tuesday, September 24, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute presents a special tour of its Impressionist collection on Saturday, Sept. 28 at 1 pm.    As part of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Williamstown Public Library, local art historian Jock Brooks leads a gallery tour exploring works of art made in 1874, the year of the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris and the same year the Williamstown Public Library was founded.   Free with gallery admission. Capacity is limited. Pick up a ticket at the Clark Center admissions desk, available on a first-come, first-served basis. Meet in the Museum Pavilion

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Williamstown Church Begins Renovation of Entry
By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:13AM / Tuesday, September 24, 2024
The Rev. John McDonough blesses the ground where a new entry will be built for Sts. Patrick and Raphael Church.   WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Each week, the Sts. Patrick and Raphael Parish community gathers to break bread.   On Sunday, they also gathered to break ground.   The Roman Catholic parish held a site dedication and blessing for a long-awaited front entryway project after its 10:30 Mass.   The Rev. John McDonough and parish officials spoke briefly and the choir sang songs of praise before groups of dignitaries, parish employees and children from its Faith Formation group took turns turning the ground where a large front entry and new mahogany doors soon

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Mount Greylock District Addressing Shortfall in State Report
By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:26AM / Monday, September 23, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School District is working to address a deficiency identified in the commonwealth's recent Special Education and Civil Rights Monitoring Report.   The three-school district last spring went through a periodic review by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education that focused on standards ranging from "licensure and professional development" to "parent/student/community engagement" to "equal access."   The district was found to have implemented "universal standards" in 27 of the 29 criteria covered in the review.   One criterion where the Lanesborough-Williamstown

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Clark Art Lecture: 'To Represent, or Not'
08:00AM / Friday, September 20, 2024
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, Sept. 24 at 5:30 pm, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program presents "To Represent or Not: An Ideology of the Image in the Kingdom of Ethiopia," a lecture by Clark Fellow Claire Bosc-Tiessé of the National Center for Scientific Research and School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences in France.    The talk takes place in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center.   According to a press release:   Bosc-Tiessé will look at what Ethiopians, depending on their position in society—rulers, high-ranking lay or religious dignitaries, parish priests or ordinary

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