Boys & Girls Club Black Tops Greylock

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Sean Harrigan scored 11 points to lead the Boys & Girls Club Black team to a 60-30 win over Greylock in seventh- and eighth-grade boys basketball travel league action.
 
Sam Sherman and Bo Bramer added 10 points apiece in the win.
 
“Boys Club Black is always a very tough matchup,” Greylock coach Rick Paris said. “They are very athletic with lots of speed and very deep with talent. We started slow and were down, 35-8, at the half. We didn’t hit an outside shot the entire first half. In the second half we started to hit some shots which included five 3-pointers.
 
“So even though we lost big, our boys showed some heart by not giving up and playing hard for every second of the game.”
 
Derek Paris scored eight points, and Jack Cangelosi and Dylan Harrison added five apiece for Greylock, which got 10 rebounds from Thomas Martin.
 
Greylock hosts Mount Anthony on Thursday night at Williamstown Elementary School before heading to the Boys & Girls Club Tournament next weekend.
 
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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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