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Williams Alum Wins Bronze Medal for Canada

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YOKOHAMA, Japan – Williams College graduate Joey Lye and the Team Canada softball captured its first Olympic softball medal downing Mexico, 3-2, in the bronze medal game on Tuesday.
 
Canada's previous best Olympic finish came in 2008 in Beijing, where they finished fourth
 
With the win over Mexico win by Lye, a 2009 Williams grad, became the first athlete from the college to win an Olympic medal since 1979 graduate Leslie Milne won bronze in field hockey in 1980. A teammate of Milne's on the USA team in 1980 was longtime Eph field hockey and lacrosse coach Chris Mason.
 
Lye, a two-sport standout for the Ephs in softball and ice hockey, has been a member of Team Canada Softball for 12 years. She recently resigned as the head softball coach at Bucknell University to commit to the Tokyo Games.
 
In the medal winning contest Lye was inserted as a pinch runner in the top of the seventh inning.
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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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