Williams Women's Soccer Earns Top Seed in Conference Tourney

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Kristina Alvarado scored two goals Saturday to lead the Williams college women's soccer team to a 3-0 win over Tufts as the Ephs secured the top spot in the upcoming NESCAC Championship tournament.
 
Evan Gancedo scored, and Alison Lu had a pair of assists.
 
Olivia Barnhill and Whitney Lincoln split time in goal for the Ephs (13-0-1, 8-0-1), who outshot the Jumbos, 6-1.
 
Williams finishes the regular season on Sunday at Middlebury.
 
Men's Soccer
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Tufts' Zach Lane scored in the 23rd minute to send the Jumbos to a 1-0 win over Williams (8-2-4, 3-2-4 NESCAC).
 
Bobby Schneiderman stopped three shots for the Ephs, who finish the regular season on Sunday at Middlebury.
 
Field Hockey
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Tufts' Mary Travers scored one goal and assisted on another to lead the Jumbos to a 2-0 win over Williams.
 
Abby Lloyd and Emma Santucci combined to stop two shots for the Ephs (11-3, 6-3 NESCAC), who finish the regular season at Middlebury on Sunday.
 
Volleyball
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Mia Weinland had 13 kills, and Alex Newton had 32 assists Saturday to lead Williams to a 25-17, 25-12, 25-14 win over Babson in the New England Challenge.
 
Earlier in the day, the Ephs (10-11) dropped a straight-set decision to MIT.
 
Williams finishes the regular seaosn at home against Middlebury next Saturday.
 
Football
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Ryan McDonald threw for 336 yards and ran for 55 to lead Tufts to a 21-13 win over Williams.
 
Bobby Maimaron threw for 208 yards and a touchdown, and T.J. Dozier ran for 66 yards and a TD for the Ephs.
 
Williams (4-2) hosts Hamilton next Saturday.
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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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