Williamstown Hosts Summer Sundays in July

03:55PM / Monday, June 23, 2014Print Story | Email Story

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williamstown Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring five Summer Sundays in July on Spring Street this year.

The community events run July 6, 13, 20 and 27 from 5 to 8 p.m.

Summer Sundays will feature local musicians including Blueberry Buckle, Rosin the Beau and David Bartley Jazz, and a drumming circle by Otha Day; activities for kids such as bubbles and sidewalk chalk art; pony rides by Bonnie Lea Farm on July 6 and 13 and local fare and hot dog cart.

IS183 Art School of the Berkshires and the Progressive Palette will offer lessons on creating a mobile mural and the Puppet Brigade will offer puppet shows and a puppet-making workshop.

The evenings conclude with yoga by Tasha Yoga on the Morgan Lawn and Family Flicks under the stars with Images Cinema.
The movies are "A Hard Day's Night" (July 6); "Casablanca" (July 13); "Mary Poppins" (July 20) and "Jurassic Park" (July 27).

Sponsors include Williamstown Community Chest, MountainOne, Adams Community Bank and Franklin County CDC.

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Mount Greylock School Committee Sets 2026-27 Agenda

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
11:50AM / Friday, September 04, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock School Committee last month laid out its priorities for the next year while acknowledging three members of the seven-person panel may be gone by November.

In a special in-person meeting at the middle-high school on a Saturday morning in August, the School Committee finalized its goals for the academic year ahead.

The four-hour meeting was attended by six of the committee's seven members, including three who face challengers in the Nov. 3 election.

The committee ended up agreeing on five goals to set for 2026-27: setting regular meetings and getting regular reports from its Outcomes Subcommittee; improving community outreach by the full committee; implementing a committee member orientation plan for the at least one new member who will be elected in the fall; advancing a district-wide "visions and values" process; and aligning the committee's practice with state requirements for a student representative.

Before the group got into goal-setting, it reviewed the results of a self-evaluation process it undertook for the previous academic year.

Members noted that in 38 areas outlined by the Massachusetts Association of School Committees, the seven Mount Greylock members rated its own performance as below satisfactory in just seven. And it was those areas that are addressed in the goals for 2026-27.

The MASC has five different subcategories headed "community engagement," and the MGRSC members rated themselves between 2.9 and 3.3 on a scale of 1 to 4 in three of the five. The lowest score in the self-evaluation was for the topic of "Community Engagement - Building Support" with an aggregate score of 2.86 and two of the seven members giving the panel a score of 2 in the wake of a budget season when one of the district's two towns chose to amend the district's budget on the floor of its town meeting.

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