Williamstown Police Falls in Extra Innings as Cal Ripken Season Begins

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Williamstown Police Department rallied from four runs down to force extra innings, but Pownal, Vt.'s, Carbone Honda pulled out a 9-8 win in the eighth inning on opening day of the Cal Ripken Baseball season on Saturday.
 
The day began the annual celebration of the league's opening, which included the parade down Cole Avenue and a special tribute to members of the league's 12-and-under team (many now varsity athletes at Mount Greylock) who won the state championship.
 
In Saturday's Major League Division opener, Luke Trombley got the win for Carbone, and Caleb Greene had a double and a single for the victors.
 
Jake Gitterman and Xander Axt each had a pair of doubles, and Axt had three RBIs for Williamstown Police.
 
Axt also was a hard-luck loser on the mound, striking out eight and allowing just two runs in five innings of relief work.
 
ROOKIE LEAGUE
Kayla Miller scored on a slow roller back to the mound in the bottom of the third to earn a 15-15 tie for iBerkshires.com in Saturday's season opener against The Clark.
 
 
 
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Williamstown Select Board Awards ARPA Funds to Remedy Hall

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board on Monday allocated $20,000 in COVID-19-era relief funds to help a non-profit born of the pandemic era that seeks to provide relief to residents in need.
 
On a unanimous vote, the board voted to grant the American Rescue Plan Act money to support Remedy Hall, a resource center that provides "basic life necessities" and emotional support to "individuals and families experiencing great hardship."
 
The board of the non-profit approached the Select Board with a request for $12,000 in ARPA Funds to help cover some of the relief agency's startup costs, including the purchase of a vehicle to pick up donations and deliver items to clients, storage rental space and insurance.
 
The board estimates that the cost of operating Remedy Hall in its second year — including some one-time expenses — at just north of $31,500. But as board members explained on Monday night, some sources of funding are not available to Remedy Hall now but will be in the future.
 
"With the [Williamstown] Community Chest, you have to be in existence four or five years before you can qualify for funding," Carolyn Greene told the Select Board. "The same goes for state agencies that would typically be the ones to fund social service agencies.
 
"ARPA made sense because [Remedy Hall] is very much post-COVID in terms of the needs of the town becoming more evident."
 
In a seven-page letter to the town requesting the funds, the Remedy Hall board wrote that, "need is ubiquitous and we are unveiling that truth daily."
 
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