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Silver Therapeutics in Williamstown will begin selling recreational marijuana on Wednesday.

Williamstown Marijuana Retailer to Open Wednesday

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — North County's first marijuana retailer plans to open Wednesday, April 24, at 10 a.m.
 
Silver Therapeutics announced its opening date Sunday in an email to those on its mailing list.
 
"Thank you to everyone who has helped us get to this moment," the email read. "We can not express enough how excited we are to open our doors this week."
 
Earlier this month, the pot purveyor announced that it had received its final license from the commonwealth's Cannabis Control Commission.
 
Silver Therapeutics in 2017 sought and ultimately received signoff from the Select Board on a "letter of non-opposition" for a medical marijuana dispensary. At the time, Silver principal Joshua Silver of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., made it clear that the business's goal was to take advantage of the November 2016 passage of Massachusetts' Question 4, which decriminalized marijuana.
 
Wednesday's planned opening will just be for recreational marijuana.
 
In February, Silver said his business is still working to bring online a cultivation site in Orange.
 
"The medical license is vertically integrated," Silver said. "I think 80 percent of your inventory for medical has to be grown yourself. There is some room for third-party sourcing.
 
"Initially we'll open [the Williamstown store] strictly as adult use because our processing center is not online yet. We're hoping that will online in a year."
 
According to its website, Silver Therapeutics plans to open dispensaries in Orange and Greenfield as well.
 
Berkshire County's first retail marijuana location, Great Barrington's Theory Wellness, opened earlier this year to huge crowds.

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WCMA: 'Cracking the Code on Numerology'

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) opens a new exhibition, "Cracking the Cosmic Code: Numerology in Medieval Art."
 
The exhibit opened on March 22.
 
According to a press release: 
 
The idea that numbers emanate sacred significance, and connect the past with the future, is prehistoric and global. Rooted in the Babylonian science of astrology, medieval Christian numerology taught that God created a well-ordered universe. Deciphering the universe's numerical patterns would reveal the Creator's grand plan for humanity, including individual fates. 
 
This unquestioned concept deeply pervaded European cultures through centuries. Theologians and lay people alike fervently interpreted the Bible literally and figuratively via number theory, because as King Solomon told God, "Thou hast ordered all things in measure, and number, and weight" (Wisdom 11:22). 
 
"Cracking the Cosmic Code" explores medieval relationships among numbers, events, and works of art. The medieval and Renaissance art on display in this exhibition from the 5th to 17th centuries—including a 15th-century birth platter by Lippo d'Andrea from Florence; a 14th-century panel fragment with courtly scenes from Palace Curiel de los Ajos, Valladolid, Spain; and a 12th-century wall capital from the Monastery at Moutiers-Saint-Jean—reveal numerical patterns as they relate to architecture, literature, gender, and timekeeping. 
 
"There was no realm of thought that was not influenced by the all-consuming belief that all things were celestially ordered, from human life to stones, herbs, and metals," said WCMA Assistant Curator Elizabeth Sandoval, who curated the exhibition. "As Vincent Foster Hopper expounds, numbers were 'fundamental realities, alive with memories and eloquent with meaning.' These artworks tease out numerical patterns and their multiple possible meanings, in relation to gender, literature, and the celestial sphere. 
 
"The exhibition looks back while moving forward: It relies on the collection's strengths in Western medieval Christianity, but points to the future with goals of acquiring works from the global Middle Ages. It also nods to the history of the gallery as a medieval period room at this pivotal time in WCMA's history before the momentous move to a new building," Sandoval said.
 
Cracking the Cosmic Code runs through Dec. 22.
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