International Family Film Coming to Images Cinema

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Images Cinema is presenting a nine-month International Family Film series, beginning on Saturday, Sept. 18 with an Aardman Animations Retrospective, featuring the new Wallace & Gromit episode "A Matter Of Loaf And Death."

The series will continue every third Saturday through May 2011. Tickets are $5. Family Subscriptions, which are available for $100, gains a family free admittance for all screenings in the series. Subscriptions can be purchased here or at the box office. Images Cinema is located at 50 Spring St.

This project has been supported by a grant from the Fund for Williamstown, a fund of Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.

The schedule is as follows:

Series Kick-off!: Aardman Animations Retrospective
Saturday, Sept. 18, 10 a.m.
Thursday, Sept. 23, 3:30 p.m.

(For ages 6 to adult;, 1 hour 14 minutes; UK) This collection includes the Academy Award-winning "Creature Comforts," "Wallace and Gromit in A Matter of Loaf and Death" (nominated for an Academy Award!), plus other masterpieces encompassing 25 years of creative output from the claymation geniuses at Aardman Animations.

A Town Called Panic
Saturday, Oct. 16, 10 a.m.
Thursday, Oct. 21, 3:30 p.m.

(For ages 7 to adult; 72 minutes; Belgium) Cowboy, Indian and Horse share a rambling house that never fails to attract the weirdest events. Cowboy and Indian’s plan to gift Horse with a homemade barbecue backfires when they accidentally buy 50 million bricks. This sets off a perilously wacky chain of events.

2010 Nycff Kids Flix Mix
Saturday, Nov. 20, 10 a.m.

(For ages 3 to 6) A collection of international shorts from the New York International Children’s Film Festival.

Azur And Asmar
Saturday, Dec. 18, 10 a.m.

(Ages 6 to adult; 1 hour 39 minutes; France) "Azur & Asmar" is the story of two boys raised as brothers. Blonde, blue-eyed, white-skinned Azur and black-haired, brown-eyed, dark-skinned Asmar are lovingly cared for by Asmar's gentle mother, who tells them magical stories of her faraway homeland and of the beautiful, imprisoned Djinn Fairy waiting to be set free. Time passes, and circumstances make the boys adversaries on a quest to find and free the Djinn Fairy.

N
yicff Party Mix
Saturday, Jan. 15

(For ages 5 to 12) A collection of international shorts from the New York International Children’s Film Festival!

Mia And The Migoo
Saturday, Feb. 19

(For ages 7 to adult; 1 hour 32 minutes; France/Italy) One night, Mia has a premonition. With lucky trinkets in her hand, she sets out on a cross-continent journey through cities, mountains and jungles to find her father, and encounters shape-shifting forest spirits called Migoo. With Mia, they fight to save Mia's father and the Tree of Life from destruction.

Nyicff Girls' Pov
Saturday, March 19

(For ages 9 and up) In celebration of Women's History Month: A collection of shorts focusing on tween issues such as body image and friendships, from the New York International Children’s Film Festival.

April & May: TBD

The only one of its kind in Berkshire County, Images Cinema is a year-round non-profit, member-supported community film house that presents a wide range of films that impact filmmaking and our culture. Images continuously seeks to entertain, educate and engage the community with quality programming, while maintaining its dedication to independent film and media. Images Cinema serves organic popcorn, real butter, locally-made baked goods, and naturally sweetened sodas, as well as traditional concessions fare. Images Cinema is supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. Check for up-to-date happenings at www.imagescinema.org.
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Mount Greylock School Committee Votes Slight Increase to Proposed Assessments

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee on Thursday voted unanimously to slightly increase the assessment to the district's member towns from the figures in the draft budget presented by the administration.
 
The School Committee opted to lower the use of Mount Greylock's reserve account by $70,000 and, instead, increase by that amount the share of the fiscal year 2025 operating budget shared proportionally by Lanesborough and Williamstown taxpayers.
 
The budget prepared by the administration and presented to the School Committee at its annual public hearing on Thursday included $665,000 from the district's Excess and Deficiency account, the equivalent of a municipal free cash balance, an accrual of lower-than-anticipated expenses and higher-than-anticipated revenue in any given year.
 
That represented a 90 percent jump from the $350,000 allocated from E&D for fiscal year 2024, which ends on June 30. And, coupled with more robust use of the district's tuition revenue account (7 percent more in FY25) and School Choice revenue (3 percent more), the draw down on E&D is seen as a stopgap measure to mitigate a spike in FY25 expenses and an unsustainable budgeting strategy long term, administrators say.
 
The budget passed by the School Committee on Thursday continues to rely more heavily on reserves than in years past, but to a lesser extent than originally proposed.
 
Specifically, the budget the panel approved includes a total assessment to Williamstown of $13,775,336 (including capital and operating costs) and a total assessment to Lanesborough of $6,425,373.
 
As a percentage increase from the FY24 assessments, that translates to a 3.90 percent increase to Williamstown and a 3.38 percent increase to Lanesborough.
 
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