Welch Game-Winner Lifts Williams Icers Past Amherst

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Elizabeth Welch scored with about six minutes left to give the Williams College women's hockey team a 2-1 win over Amherst on Saturday.
 
The Ephs (7-4-2) took a lead late in the second period when Maddie Tix scored with assists from Brynn Puppe and Mia Carroll.
 
Amherst (8-3-3) tied it midway through the third, but Welch scored the game-winner with assists from Kelly McCarthy and Georgia Keogh.
 
Chloe Heiting made 26 saves to earn the win in goal.
 
Williams goes to St. Anselm on Tuesday.
 
Men's Hockey
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Plattsburgh State came back from a two-goal deficit to tie Williams, 2-2.
 
Mac Carso and Myles Cunningham scored goals for Williams, which got 23 saves from Cosimo Lazzarino.
 
Williams (9-4-1) goes to Colby on Friday.
 
Women's Basketball
WATERVILLE, Maine -- Mikaela Topper scored 18 points to lead Williams to an 80-48 win over Colby.
 
Maddy Mandyck scored 10 points and grabbed nine rebounds.
 
The Ephs (13-4, 2-2 NESCAC) go to Amherst on Wednesday.
 
Men's Basketball
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Sam Jefferson scored 33 points to lead undefeated Colby to a 73-61 win over Williams.
 
Matt Karpowicz scored 26 points, including the 1,000th of his Williams career.
 
The Ephs (8-8, 2-2) go to Amherst on Wednesday.
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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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