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The series kicks off July 14 with 'The Princess Bride.'

Family Flicks Under the Stars Returns to Williamstown

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Images Cinema once again will present Family Flicks Under the Stars, its annual free outdoor film series.

On three consecutive Sundays, starting with July 14, all-ages movies will be presented in the Science Quad on Williams College campus. The Science Quad is adjacent to Spring Street. Films will start at sundown, at approximately 8:15 p.m. The movies are free to attend.

Concessions items will be available for sale onsite. People are encouraged to bring chairs, blankets and bug spray.


The series kicks off July 14 with "The Princess Bride," (1987, rated PG; 1 hour 38 minutes). Buttercup loves Wesley, but Wesley is taken prisoner by the Dread Pirate Roberts. On the eve of her wedding to Prince Humperdink, she is kidnapped by Vizzini, Fezzik the Giant, and Inigo Montoya, but is then counter-kidnapped by a mysterious man in black. Hijinks, mostly death, and true love ensue.
 
On July 21, the series will feature "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" (2018, rated PG; 1 hour 56 minutes). Miles Morales, a teenager in Brooklyn, finds himself the Spider-Man of his reality, and joins forces with five other Spider-Men and Women from other dimensions when a dangerous technology threatens all realities.

The series ends July 28 with WALL-E (2008, rated G; 1 hour 48 minutes). A lonely robot labors away on an abandoned Earth, fulfilling his protocol to compact all the trash into little cubes. His life is upended when a sleek new robot named Eve comes to town.

 

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Williamstown Housing Trust Commits $80K to Support Cable Mills Phase 3

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The board of the town's Affordable Housing Trust last week agreed in principle to commit $80,000 more in town funds to support the third phase of the Cable Mills housing development on Water Street.
 
Developer David Traggorth asked the trustees to make the contribution from its coffers to help unlock an additional $5.4 million in state funds for the planned 54-unit apartment building at the south end of the Cable Mills site.
 
In 2022, the annual town meeting approved a $400,000 outlay of Community Preservation Act funds to support the third and final phase of the Cable Mills development, which started with the restoration and conversion of the former mill building and continued with the construction of condominiums along the Green River.
 
The town's CPA funds are part of the funding mix because 28 of Phase 3's 54 units (52 percent) will be designated as affordable housing for residents making up to 60 percent of the area median income.
 
Traggorth said he hopes by this August to have shovels in the ground on Phase 3, which has been delayed due to spiraling construction costs that forced the developer to redo the financial plan for the apartment building.
 
He showed the trustees a spreadsheet that demonstrated how the overall cost of the project has gone up by about $6 million from the 2022 budget.
 
"Most of that is driven by construction costs," he said. "Some of it is caused by the increase in interest rates. If it costs us more to borrow, we can't borrow as much."
 
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