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Williams College Museum of Art Program on Sol LeWitt's Jewish Projects| 04:02PM / Wednesday, April 20, 2022 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — In conjunction with the "Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints" exhibition currently on view at the Williams College Museum of Art, curator David S. Areford will present a program at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, April 21, that explores the Jewish dimensions of Sol LeWitt's art through five projects. The program will be held in person at Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) as well as virtually on Zoom and live-streamed on YouTube. To register for the Zoom program, visit artmuseum.williams.edu. WCMA's galleries will remain open until 5:30 p.m. so that attendees can visit the exhibition before the program. According to a press 0 Comments
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Williamstown Fire District Honing FY23 Budget ProposalBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:59AM / Wednesday, April 20, 2022 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The committee that oversees the Fire District last week reviewed a fiscal 2023 budget that amounts to a 3.14 percent increase over the current year. But the $498,000 spending plan is just 0.4 percent higher than the operating budget the annual district meeting approved two years ago. Last spring, the Prudential Committee put forward a budget that reflected a 2.7 percent decrease from FY21 to FY22. This year, it may be looking to recoup that drop plus a little more according to a preliminary budget presented by Treasurer Corydon Thurston at a special meeting. "It's certainly a manageable number and a sellable number, in my 0 Comments
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Seasonal Safety Reminder: Be Aware of Mulch Fire Hazards| 03:59PM / Tuesday, April 19, 2022 | |
STOW, Mass. —State Fire Marshal Peter J. Ostroskey offered a fire safety reminder to homeowners and others who plan on using mulch in upcoming landscaping projects. "Every spring, firefighters across Massachusetts respond to mulch fires on commercial and residential properties," State Fire Marshal Ostroskey said. "These include fires that start with cigarettes and other smoking materials. Remember that mulch is combustible and can easily catch fire." The hazard is especially significant around residential structures because fires that start on the exterior of buildings are usually not detected early. By the time smoke and heat enter the building to 0 Comments
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Best Selling Author Joins Next Medical Matters Weekly| 08:39AM / Tuesday, April 19, 2022 | |
 BENNINGTON, Vt. — Award-winning California-based journalist and author Richard Louv has spent his career exploring human relationships with nature and animals and how those relationships affect our health and wellbeing. At 12 p.m. on Wednesday, April 20, he joins Trey Dobson, MD, on Medical Matters Weekly. The show is produced by Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC) with cooperation from Catamount Access Television (CAT-TV). Viewers can see Medical Matters Weekly on facebook.com/svmedicalcenter and facebook.com/CATTVBennington. The show is also available to view or download as a podcast on www.svhealthcare.org/medicalmatters. Richard Louv is a journalist and author of 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock District Plans 32 New School-Choice Slots for FallBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:18AM / Tuesday, April 19, 2022 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School District plans to open up 32 new school choice slots between its three schools for the 2022-23 academic year, the School Committee learned last week. Superintendent Jason McCandless had previously announced a plan to open up 15 new slots at Lanesborough Elementary School to help offset increased use of the district's school choice reserve in fiscal year 2023 spending plan. At Thursday's monthly School Committee meeting, McCandless provided more detail of what he has characterized as a return to past practice after a couple of years without significant School Choice opportunities in the district due to the 0 Comments
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Williamstown's Boyd 20th in Age Group at Boston Marathon| 08:36PM / Monday, April 18, 2022 | |
 BOSTON, Mass. -- Williamstown's Stephanie Boyd placed 20th in her age group on Monday in the 126th running of the Boston Marathon. Boyd covered the 26.2-mile course in 3 hours, 37 minutes, 40 seconds, maintaining a pace of 8:18 per mile to finished 20th in the women's 60-64 division. The women's 60-64 age group had 450 finishers. A pair of runners from Kenya won the event, which celebrated its return to the Patriots Day holiday for the first time since 2019. Evans Chebet took the men's title in a time of 2:06:51. He was followed by countryman Lawrence Cherono (2:07:21) as Kenyan athletes took five of the top six places on the men's 0 Comments
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Earth Day Celebration in Merchants Park| 04:13PM / Monday, April 18, 2022 | |
 BENNINGTON, Vt. — The Earth Day celebration this spring will take place at Merchants Parks at 3:30 the afternoon of April 22, 2022. This will be the fifty-second commemoration of Earth Day which began in 1970. This Earth Day is sponsored by Climate Advocates Bennington, the MAUHS group Climate Change Initiative and Better Bennington Corporation. The celebration is open to the public and will have speakers, music, and skits with audience participation. According to a press release, Earth Day in the US, began after several major ecological disasters. In January of 1969 An oil rig leaked millions of gallons of oil on the coast of Santa 0 Comments
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Williamstown Spring Water Main Flushing Notice| 08:08AM / Monday, April 18, 2022 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williamstown Water Department will be flushing water mains beginning Monday, May 9, through Thursday, May 19, between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and midnight, weather permitting. Flushing will not be done on Friday evenings or weekends. Customers may experience some cloudy water and lower than normal pressure. This is a semi-annual procedure to remove any sediment in the mains and check the operation of all hydrants. Any questions regarding this matter to call the business office at 458-3383 0 Comments
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Cost Overruns Seen in Mount Greylock OutbuildingBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:05AM / Monday, April 18, 2022 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock School Committee on Thursday agreed to spend more than $100,000 in additional funds to get an outdoor equipment storage facility online. The new structure at the middle/high school will be used to protect equipment needed to maintain the fields at the school. The district had hoped to complete the project for less than $200,000, but complications in the project and increased costs during the course of the project necessitated bringing that figure up to $314,000, Business Administrator Joe Bergeron told the committee. Bergeron sought and approved the committee's blessing to use up to $134,000 more from the capital gift 6 Comments
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Williamstown Community Preschool Installs New Signage |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williamstown Community Preschool began sprucing up its new home by hiring local sign maker Lindsay Neathawk, owner of Neathawk Signs and Design, to create a 3D sign for the business.
Neathawk installed the sign late Monday afternoon that features multicolored hand prints from the children as the leaves of a tree poking out of the top. Underneath the name and address "a place to grow" is written. The children's hand prints were taken at the school and Neathawk then scanned them into her design programs to create the sign.
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