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Southwestern Vermont Health Care Recognizes Nursing Staff| 11:53AM / Friday, October 21, 2022 | |
 BENNINGTON, Vt. — Southwestern Vermont Health Care's (SVHC) nursing leaders have chosen four nurses whose work represents each of the four qualities of a Magnet Center for Nursing Excellence, including transformational leadership, innovation, structural empowerment, and exemplary professional practice. "The nurses we are honoring are noted standard bearers within the organization,” said Pamela Duchene, APRN, PhD. "We are grateful for their extraordinary work, which together in cooperation with nurse and physician colleagues, makes SVHC the health system it is." Laurie Darby, RN, BSN, SANE, CEN, was honored for her commitment to transformational 0 Comments
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Medical Matters Weekly Welcomes SVMC Rheumatologist| 08:49AM / Thursday, October 20, 2022 | |
 BENNINGTON, Vt. — Rheumatologist Matthew Stanishewski, DO, is the next guest on Medical Matters Weekly. He practices with SVMC Rheumatology, part of Southwestern Vermont Medical Center, in Bennigton. The show airs on Facebook Live at 12 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 26. The show is produced by Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC) with cooperation from Catamount Access Television (CAT-TV). Viewers can view on facebook.com/svmedicalcenter and facebook.com/CATTVBennington. The show is also available to view or download as a podcast on svhealthcare.org/medicalmatters. Stanishewski earned his medical degree from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and most recently 0 Comments
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Williamstown Fire District Will Postpone Fire Station Funding VoteBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
09:30PM / Wednesday, October 19, 2022 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williamstown Fire District announced Wednesday that it will hold off on a special district meeting to approve funding for a new fire station until at least early 2023. The district Wednesday held an informational forum about the new building project at Mount Greylock Regional High School. The meeting was billed as a chance to provide information and answer residents' questions in advance of a Dec. 7 special meeting to approve funding for a 27,000-square-foot station on Main Street (Route 2). But at the outset, Jim Kolesar of the district's Building Committee announced that committee met earlier Wednesday and voted unanimously to 1 Comment
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Eliza Edens To Perform at the Store at Five Corners| 08:05AM / Wednesday, October 19, 2022 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday, Oct. 21, at 6:00 p.m. the indie folk rock bands Eliza Edens Band and Collect Calls will perform at the Store at Five Corner. The four-person Eliza Edens Band will follow the opening act Collect Calls, a singer-songwriter collective that includes Lily Goldberg, Jason Bascasa and Karl Mullen. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. Edens is a Mount Greylock Regional School graduate who just released her second CD, "We'll Become the Flowers" on Oct. 14. The Williamstown show is midpoint in a record-release live tour that includes Philadelphia, New York City, Cambridge, Mass., Portland, Maine, Burlington, Vt., and a Catskills 0 Comments
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Beyond Boundaries: Seeing Art History from the Caribbean| 04:00PM / Tuesday, October 18, 2022 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, Oct. 20, and Friday, Oct. 21, the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute hosts a Clark Conference, Beyond Boundaries: Seeing Art History from the Caribbean. The conference begins at 9 am in the Clark's auditorium. The program is free and open to the public. Included in a press release: Why has art history—a discipline often defined by its relationship with shifting terrains of theoretical critique and analysis—been slow to engage with Caribbean writers and thinkers, to take seriously their multidisciplinary, multi-theoretical, and multi-lingual voices? This conference asks what a deep engagement 0 Comments
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BHS and Public Health Nurses Holding Vaccine Clinic in Williamstown| 11:18AM / Tuesday, October 18, 2022 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Berkshire Health Systems and the Berkshire County Boards of Health Association are teaming up for a vaccination clinic in Williamstown in October. The clinic, to be held on Friday, Oct. 21 from 2 to 6 pm at the Williams College Field House, is open to the public and to staff and students from Williams College. The clinic will provide the COVID-19 Bivalent Booster, which is effective against the latest strains of the COVID-19 virus, BA.4 and BA.5, and the Flu vaccine to help prevent Influenza. In order to receive the Bivalent vaccine, you must have received the first two primary doses of either Pfizer or Moderna, or the single primary dose of 0 Comments
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Talk on Frank Grant at the Williams Bookstore| 04:02PM / Monday, October 17, 2022 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A biography about Berkshire County's Frank Grant, a Black player voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2006, will be the focus of a talk starting at 4:00 this Wednesday at the Williams Bookstore on 81 Spring Street. The new 270-page book is by a Minnesota author named Richard Bogovich. This talk is his first about Grant's biography. Also speaking at the bookstore will be Carolyn Foote-Minich, a descendant of Frank Grant's brother Clarence, and Kevin Larkin, a baseball historian and author who lives in Berkshire County. Other descendants of Clarence and Frank Grant are also expected to 0 Comments
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Berkshire Libraries Fall Crawl| 12:10PM / Monday, October 17, 2022 | |
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — One dozen Berkshire county libraries are hosting The Berkshire Libraries Fall Crawl from October 17 to October 22, 2022. All are welcome to explore the Berkshires by visiting public libraries across the county. Participants can pick up a passport at the first library they visit and then drive from library to library, collecting passport stamps and small prizes. Participants are asked to take a photo of themselves at each library along the way and use the tag #BerkshireLibraryCrawl2022. Those who are unable to make the trip in person can participate in a virtual crawl at https://www.milnelibrary.org/fall-crawl-2022 to be entered into a prize 0 Comments
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Williamstown Board's Try to Make Housing Affordable Called 'Madness'By Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:10AM / Monday, October 17, 2022 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — After June's annual town meeting referred back most of an ambitious slate of proposals from the Planning Board, the panel is preparing a simpler, more focused set of proposed bylaw amendments that it hopes will be more readily understood by members of town meeting 2023. Last week, the board heard a sample of just how objectionable some residents can find even the simplest of ideas. "I may be the only person in this room feeling this way, but it seems like madness has taken hold of the Planning Board," Rhon Ernest-Jones told the board. Ernest-Jones was speaking in response to a draft warrant article that would 5 Comments
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Cost for Mount Greylock Field, Track Projected at $3.5 MillionBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
12:25PM / Sunday, October 16, 2022 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock School Committee on Thursday learned that the initial estimate to pay for a field and track project at the middle-high school is higher than anticipated, but the panel voted unanimously to take the next step toward bringing the project to fruition. Estimators hired by the district's owner's project manager, Skanska, determined that the projected bottom line for an eight-lane track around a new multi-purpose grass playing field with adjacent areas for shot put, discus and javelin competitions is just under $3.5 million, the committee learned. That estimate is based on the current market for construction and materials to 58 Comments
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Williams Field Hockey Team Edges Wesleyan| 10:01AM / Sunday, October 16, 2022 | |
MIDDLETOWN, Conn. -- Kelly McCarthy and Catherine Torres each scored a goal Saturday to lead the Williams College field hockey team to a 2-1 win over Wesleyan. Carson Stephenson and Gates Tenewicz each playd a half in Williams' goal, combining for one save. Williams (8-3, 4-3 NESCAC) hosts Montclair State on Sunday. Football WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Matt Banbury threw for a touchdown and ran for a touchdown to lead Hamilton to a 15-13 win over Williams. Joe Nicholas ran for 71 yards to lead Williams (1-4), which goes to Trinity on Saturday. Men's Soccer MIDDLETOWN, Conn. -- Henry Kirkman scored a goal for Williams in a 1-1 tie at Wesleyan. Ben 0 Comments
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