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Motor Vehicle Crash Closes Route 7 For Two HoursStaff Reports,
10:45AM / Monday, March 10, 2014 | |
 Lanesborough Police closed the road at the intersection of Brodie Mountain Road. NEW ASHFORD, Mass. — A motor vehicle accident led Police to close a section of Route 7 for nearly two hours Monday morning.
Traffic was being rerouted to Route 43 from Lanesborough to Williamstown from about 7:30 a.m. until about 9:30 a.m. Lanesborough Police were redirecting traffic at the intersection of Route 7 and Brodie Mountain Road.
The accident is being investigated by state police and no further information was available. Emergency responders from New Ashford, Lanesborough and Cheshire were reportedly on scene.
According to scanner reports, emergency responders had to use the Jaws of Life
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Mount Greylock to Host SEE Fund Telethon| 10:04AM / Monday, March 10, 2014 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass - The Mount Greylock Regional School District’s SEE Fund will host a student/faculty Quiz Bowl and telethon at the school on Thursday, March 13. The competition will be broadcast live from 6:30 8 p.m. on channel 16 (WilliNet) in Williamstown and then again on Thursday, March 27, in Lanesborough (LCATV2).
This event is meant to highlight students and student learning and to serve as a fundraiser for educational initiatives at the school.
Blair Dils, a faculty member and coach of the Mount Greylock “As Schools Match Wits” team, will emcee the Quiz Bowl. Dils and other Mount Greylock faculty will compose questions in the categories of humanities, science
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 |  | Feeding the hungry
by buddy 04:12PM / Friday, February 21, 2014
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|  Williamstown Community Preschool Installs New Signage
by Billsville 02:46PM / Tuesday, February 26, 2013
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williamstown Community Preschool began sprucing up its new home by hiring local sign maker Lindsay Neathawk,
| Williamstown Youth Center Thanks Bedard Bros.
by Billsville 02:13PM / Friday, June 22, 2012
Bedard Brothers Chevrolet, through the Chevrolet Youth Soccer Program, has helped sponsor the Williamstown Youth Center's Soccer Program for the 2012 season. In addition to soccer equipment, this
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Williams Alum Returns to Williamstown Fire DepartmentBy Stephen Dravis, Williamstown Correspondent
08:05PM / Sunday, March 09, 2014 | |
 Dr. Erryn Leinbaugh, a Williams College alum, has rejoined the Fire Department after a 15-year absence. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Service to the people of Williamstown led Erryn Leinbaugh down a career track that led to his current life as a physician. When the road of life brought him back to Williamstown, it only made sense to serve again. "We bought a house just two blocks down from here, and I remember saying to my wife when we bought it, 'This is perfect, I can go right down to the fire station,' " Leinbaugh said recently. So this summer, the new homeowner began his second stint as a call firefighter with the WIlliamstown Fire 0 Comments
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Planning Commission Debuts New Regional Sustainability PlanBy Joe Durwin, Pittsfield Correspondent
06:12AM / Sunday, March 09, 2014 | |
 BRPC Executive Director Nathaniel Karns said the Sustainable Berkshires regional plan is nearing completion. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — A three-year, half-million dollar countywide effort to develop an updated plan for promoting a stable and sustainable regional economy in the Berkshires has been completed. Now, public input is being sought as the Berkshire Regional Planning Commission prepares to make its final decisions on the plan. At a public hearing at the Berkshire Athenaeum on Thursday, BRPC representatives took comments and questions on the "Sustainable Berkshires" plan, which outlines goals and strategies to inform the region's developmental planning in 0 Comments
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Williamstown Receives 2 Bids for Affordable Housing projectsBy Stephen Dravis, Williamstown Correspondent
03:11PM / Saturday, March 08, 2014 | |
 Williamstown Town Manager Peter Fohlin opens the packages containing proposals to develop affordable housing on a pair of town-owned sites. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The town has received two responses to its request for proposals to develop a pair of brown field sites for the purposes of affordable housing. Berkshire Housing Development Corp. in Pittsfield and Boston-based Arch Street Development submitted proposals that were opened on Friday afternoon at Town Hall. The RFPs were developed over several months by the town's Affordable Housing Committee and issued under the auspices of the Board of Selectmen, which has the authority to dispose of the two sites in question: the
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$15 Million Eyed For Berkshires In State Senate Bond BillStaff Reports,
10:39AM / Saturday, March 08, 2014 | |
 The crumbling Brown Street Bridge in North Adams is set to get $1.5 million should the transportation bond make it through the House and governor intact. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The state Senate passed a transportation bill Thursday which sends $15 million to the Berkshires to improve roads, bridges and a parking garage.
The bill includes $6 million for the replacement of the parking garage between Columbus Avenue and Summer Street; $5 million for reconstruction of the Hubbard Avenue railroad overpass; $1.75 million for Thiel Road in Adams; $1.5 million for the Brown Street Bridge in North Adams and $750,000 for repairs to the bridge over the Housatonic River on Route 7 in Great
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Sandra Thomas Stepping Down As Head of Images| 06:26PM / Friday, March 07, 2014 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Images Cinema's longtime executive director, Sandra Thomas, will be resigning from her position at the nonprofit cinema as soon as a replacement director can be found. After 12 years on the job, a time that has seen Images grow in budget, membership and programming, Thomas said she is ready to turn her attention to other interests. She plans to stay in the area and continue her involvement with the Williamstown Film Festival, as well as pursue her passion for local food initiatives in Berkshire County. "I also look forward to going to the movies and supporting Images," she said.
Thomas said she felt it was a good time to pull herself away from a
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Arts Experts Weigh Impact of Local Creative EconomyBy Joe Durwin, Pittsfield Correspondent
02:35PM / Friday, March 07, 2014 | |
 Helena Fruscio, left, Dee Schneidman and Stephen Sheppard discussed the the economic impact of creative industry in the state, including in the Berkshires, at the Lichtenstein Center on Wednesday. PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Cultural economics specialists from around the region examined both the benefits and challenges of cultivating creative industry in Berkshire County at a panel discussion on Wednesday at the Lichtenstein Center for the Arts. The forum was one of three being held in the region this week. Creatively moderated by Berkshire Museum Director Van Shields, panelists Williams College economist Stephen Sheppard, state Creative Economy Director Helena Fruscio and Dee 1 Comment
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Mill City to Present 'The Good Doctor'| 12:50PM / Friday, March 07, 2014 | |
 NORTH ADAMS, Mass. - Mill City Productions will present "The Good Doctor" by Neil Simon and Anton Chekhov this month.
The production is directed by Tara Johnson and features 11 Berkshire County actors.
This Broadway hit is a composite of Anton Chekhov's short stories, dramatized by Neil Simon. An unnamed writer (obviously meant to represent Chekhov himself) suffers from writer's block and his own artistic temperament, so he revisits some of his favorite characters and the stories they inhabit.
Performances will take place on Fridays, March 14 and 21, at 8 p.m.; Saturdays, March 15 and 22, at 8 p.m.; and Sundays, March 16 and 23, at 2 p.m.
Performances will take place at
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Williamstown Music Festival Moves to Former ChurchBy Stephen Dravis,
11:00AM / Friday, March 07, 2014 | |
 This year's Billstock will be held at the Williamstown Community Preschool, in the former church's sanctuary. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — It is a good bet that the Devil never felt more welcome in a former church building. The Devil in the Delta will be one of the headliners when Billstock IV, Williamstown's music festival, takes over the sanctuary of the former Methodist Church on Main Street on Friday and Saturday, March 7 and 8. Don't worry about any satanic overtones from the 20-year-old, self-described "indi-punk-noise-pop band." In fact, don't even look for the regional overtones implied by the other half of the group's 1 Comment
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