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The MacFarlane team includes: Back row - coach Aaron Kipp, Tate Kuster, Landen Jamula, Christian Sullivan, Patrick McConnell, coach Rick Paris; Front Row - Luca D'Agruma, Troy Wynuk, Jack Cangelosi, Derek Paris, George Kipp

MacFarlane, Mountain One Win LYBA/WYBA Titles

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Derek Paris and Tate Kuster scored 13 points apiece Wednesday night to lead MacFarlane Office Products to a 32-20 win over Mickle Electric in the championship game of the Lanesborough/Williamstown Youth Basketball Association fifth- and sixth-grade house league.
 
Thomas Martin led Mickle with 12 points.
 
"We held their two guards to only two points total and those came from two free throws that Luca Traversa made," MacFarlane coach Rick Paris said. "That was our goal trying to shut down their two outside shooters and try to keep Martin away from the boards by running a triangle and two.
 
"It worked well but we did have some trouble keeping Martin away from the boards especially in the second half."
 
In the league's girls final, also held on Wednesday night, Anna Schoorlemer and Lucy Igoe scored four points apiece to lead Mountain One to a 12-7 win over Southwest Vermont Healthcare.
 
Tessa Levesque scored five, and Ella Smith added two for Southwest Vermont.
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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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