Topper Leads Williams Women's Basketball to Win over Middlebury

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Mikaela Topper scored 18 points and grabbed eight rebounds to lead the Williams College women's basketball team to a 59-50 win over Middlebury on Saturday.
 
Four Ephs finished in double figures. Maggie Meehan scored 11, and Katie Brule and Maddy Mandyck added 10 apiece.
 
The Ephs (14-5, 3-2 NESCAC) host Conn College on Friday.
 
Men's Basketball
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. -- Jack Farrell scored 21 points to lead Middlebury (17-2, 3-2) to an 84-66 win over Williams.
 
Cole Prowitt-Smith and Henry Feinberg scored 13 and 12, respectively to lead Williams.
 
The Ephs (9-9, 2-3) go to Conn College on Friday.
 
Women's Hockey
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Bowdoin's Julia Surgenor scored in the first minute of overtime to give the Polar Bears a 5-4 win over Williams.
 
Elizabeth Welch scored twice in the third period to bring Williams back from a 4-2 deficit and force OT.
 
Marissa Anderson stopped eight shots in Williams' goal.
 
The Ephs (9-5-3, 6-3-1) go to Conn College on Friday.
 
Men's Hockey
BRUNSWICK, Maine -- Jack Forrest recorded a hat trick to lead Williams to a 5-1 win over Bowdoin.
 
Evan Ruschil made 36 saves to earn the win in net.
 
The Ephs (11-4-1, 8-2) host Conn College on Friday.
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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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