Clark Library to Close Over Holiday Break; Museum Bustling With Activities

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. - The Clark Art Institute’s library will be closed from Dec. 24, 2014, through Jan. 4, 2015, in order to accommodate construction activity in the library’s public spaces.

The timing of the closure has been coordinated to minimize disruption to the collection and to ensure that the library is fully operational when students and scholars return from holiday breaks.

The museum itself is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. but will be closed in observance of Christmas Day on December 25 and New Year’s Day on January 1.

During school vacation week, the Clark hosts a free film festival and a series of free intergenerational yoga classes. "Frozen" (PG, 109 min.) airs Tuesday, December 30; "Fantastic Mr. Fox" (PG, 87 min.) airs Wednesday, December 31; and "Hugo" (PG, 128 min.) airs Friday, January 2. All showtimes are at 2:30 p.m. in the Clark Center.

Free beginning-level yoga classes will be held Tuesday, December 30, Wednesday, December 31, and Friday, January 2 at 11 a.m. in the Clark Center. Classes are open to ages 10 and up. Bring your own yoga mat or towel.

 


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Summer Street Residents Make Case to Williamstown Planning Board

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Neighbors of a proposed subdivision off Summer Street last week asked the Planning Board to take a critical look at the project, which the residents say is out of scale to the neighborhood.
 
Northern Berkshire Habitat for Humanity was at Town Hall last Tuesday to present to the planners a preliminary plan to build five houses on a 1.75 acre lot currently owned by town's Affordable Housing Trust.
 
The subdivision includes the construction of a road from Summer Street onto the property to provide access to five new building lots of about a quarter-acre apiece.
 
Several residents addressed the board from the floor of the meeting to share their objections to the proposed subdivision.
 
"I support the mission of Habitat," Summer Street resident Christopher Bolton told the board. "There's been a lot of concern in the neighborhood. We had a neighborhood meeting [Monday] night, and about half the houses were represented.
 
"I'm impressed with the generosity of my neighbors wanting to contribute to help with the housing crisis in the town and enthusiastic about a Habitat house on that property or maybe two or even three, if that's the plan. … What I've heard is a lot of concern in the neighborhood about the scale of the development, that in a very small neighborhood of 23 houses, five houses, close together on a plot like this will change the character of the neighborhood dramatically."
 
Last week's presentation from NBHFH was just the beginning of a process that ultimately would include a definitive subdivision plan for an up or down vote from the board.
 
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