Maimaron, Williams Football Cruise Past Bates

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Bobby Maimaron threw for 209 yards and three touchdowns Saturday to lead the Williams College football team to a 35-7 win over Bates.
 
Dan Vaughn ran for 96 yards, and the Ephs kept the Bobcats off the scoreboard until midway through the fourth quarter.
 
Williams (5-1) is at Trinity on Saturday.
 
Field Hockey
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Emma Ticknor converted an assist from Emily Batchelor to give Williams a 1-0 win over Bates.
 
Abby Lloyd made one save to earn the win in goal for Williams (11-1, 7-1 NESCAC), which goes to Bowdoin on Saturday.
 
Men's Soccer
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Jules Oberg scored in the second overtime to give Williams a 1-0 win over Bates.
 
Michael Davis stopped two shots to earn the shutout in goal for the Ephs (5-3-4, 3-2-2), who host Hamilton on Wednesday.
 
Women's Soccer
WILLIAMSTOWN -- Victoria Laino and Emma Lynch each scored a goal for Williams in a 2-0 win over Bates.
 
Leyla Kamshad and Chelsea Taylor split time in goal for the Ephs, combining for five saves.
 
Williams (8-3-1, 6-2) is at Bowdoin on Saturday.
 
Volleyball
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Williams split a pair of matches at the New England Challenge, losing in three sets to MIT before coming back to top Springfield in five sets.
 
Against the Pride, Lydia Kurtz had 17 kills, and Erin Denham and Lauren Berry recorded 13 and 11 kills, respectively, in a 16-25, 25-21, 20-25, 25-21, 16-4 win.
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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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