St. Lawrence Women's Basketball Edges Williams

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- The St. Lawrence women's basketball team held off a furious comeback by Williams to escape with a 65-64 win on Friday night in the Morin Memorial Tournament.
 
Katie Frederick and Sierra Sanson each scored 14 for St. Lawrence, which had a 55-42 lead going to the fourth quarter.
 
Maggie Meehan scored 25 points, and Maddy Mandyck had 13 rebounds for Williams (2-2), which hosts Framingham State on Saturday afternoon.
 
Men's Hockey
WATERVILLE, Maine -- Jacob Monroe scored midway through the second period to lead Williams to a 1-0 win over Colby in Friday's season-opener.
 
Evan Ruschil stopped 43 shots to earn the shutout in goal.
 
Williams (1-0) goes to Bowdoin on Saturday.
 
Women's Hockey
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Lexi Cafiero scored a pair of goals to lead Colby to a 3-0 win over Williams.
 
Chloe Heiting stopped 28 shots for Williams (0-1), which hosts the Mules again on Saturday.
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Williamstown Select Board Awards ARPA Funds to Remedy Hall

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board on Monday allocated $20,000 in COVID-19-era relief funds to help a non-profit born of the pandemic era that seeks to provide relief to residents in need.
 
On a unanimous vote, the board voted to grant the American Rescue Plan Act money to support Remedy Hall, a resource center that provides "basic life necessities" and emotional support to "individuals and families experiencing great hardship."
 
The board of the non-profit approached the Select Board with a request for $12,000 in ARPA Funds to help cover some of the relief agency's startup costs, including the purchase of a vehicle to pick up donations and deliver items to clients, storage rental space and insurance.
 
The board estimates that the cost of operating Remedy Hall in its second year — including some one-time expenses — at just north of $31,500. But as board members explained on Monday night, some sources of funding are not available to Remedy Hall now but will be in the future.
 
"With the [Williamstown] Community Chest, you have to be in existence four or five years before you can qualify for funding," Carolyn Greene told the Select Board. "The same goes for state agencies that would typically be the ones to fund social service agencies.
 
"ARPA made sense because [Remedy Hall] is very much post-COVID in terms of the needs of the town becoming more evident."
 
In a seven-page letter to the town requesting the funds, the Remedy Hall board wrote that, "need is ubiquitous and we are unveiling that truth daily."
 
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