Williams Men's, Women's Basketball Open with Wins

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Kyle Scadlock scored a game-high 32 points and pulled down 12 rebounds Friday to lead the Williams College men's basketball team to an 80-68 win over Salem State in the Ephs' season-opener.
 
James Heskett scored 21 points, and Mike Greenman added 11 in the win.
 
Williams continues its season-opening tournament on Saturday at 4 p.m. against the winner of Friday's late game between Suffolk and Stevens Institute.
 
Women's Basketball
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Amanni Fernandez scored 14 points to lead four Williams Ephs in double figures as Williams Friday opened the season with a 77-57 win over St. Lawrence.
 
Lauren Vostal scored 13, and Mikaela Topper and Kristin Fechtelkotter added 12 apiece.
 
Emily Peckham came off the bench to grab a game-high 10 rebounds.
 
Williams hosts Husson on Sunday afternoon.
 
Women's Hockey
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Hamilton jumped out to a 4-0 lead en route to a 6-2 win over Williams in the Ephs' season opener.
 
Annie Rush and Brynn Puppe each scored a goal, and Avery Dunn had two assists for Williams, which got 22 saves from the tandem of Marissa Anderson and Christina Cleroux.
 
Williams and Hamilton meet again Saturday at 3 p.m. at Lansing Chapman Rink.
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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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