Williams Men's Basketball Tops Tufts

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Matt Karpowicz scored 19 points and grabbed 10 rebounds Saturday to lead the Williams College men's basketball team to a 71-66 win over Tufts.
 
Jovan Jones scored 14, and Cole Prowitt-Smith added 13 in the win.
 
Williams (13-11, 6-4 NESCAC) opens play in the league quarter-finals next weekend.
 
Women's Basketball
MEDFORD, Mass. -- Callin Harrington scored 19 points and grabbed nine rebounds to lead Tufts to a 76-63 win over Williams.
 
Maggie Meehan scored 17 points to lead Williams.
 
The Ephs (17-7, 6-4) play in the NESCAC quarter-finals next weekend.
 
Men's Hockey
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. -- Jack McCool scored a goal and set up two more to lead Williams to a 5-3 win over Middlebury.
 
The Ephs scored five straight between the second and third periods to take a 5-1 lead.
 
Cosimo Lazzarino stopped 25 shots to earn the win in goal.
 
Williams (15-6-1, 12-4) hosts Hamilton on Friday.
 
Women's Hockey
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Jenna Letterie scored twice to lead Middlebury to a 4-0 win over Williams.
 
Chloe Heiting stopped 19 shots for the Ephs (11-7-4, 8-2-1), who travel to Middlebury on Sunday.
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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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