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Three Candidates Vying for Two Seats on the Mount Greylock School Committee

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Voters in the Mount Greylock Regional School District will be selecting their representatives for the next term at the general election on Tuesday, Nov. 8. 

Most are incumbents running unopposed but there is a three-way race for two four-year seats to represent Williamstown on the committee. 

Christine Enderle is challenging incumbents Carrie Greene and Steven Miller for the one of the two seats. 

Enderle is a kindergarten teacher in the North Adams Public Schools and has three children in the Mount Greylock district. In a statement on her Facebook Page, she said she understood how "so much lies on the shoulders of our teachers." She said her focus is finding and supporting highly qualified teachers and that it is a personal issue for her. You can complain about the reality, she said, or "offer your service as an agent of change in your community."
 
Greene is Williams College's director of commencement and academic events. A veteran School Committee member, she is a former chair and was a member of the School Building Committee and Berkshire County Education Task Force. She served between 2009 and 2018 and returned to the committee to fill an empty seat in 2020. 
 
Miller is a mathematics professor at Williams College and has two children in the school district. He is running for this third four-year term on the School Committee. He currently is the committee's secretary and also served on the School Building Committee and a chair of the Education subcommittee. He proposed new formulas on assessing capital costs during the school project and local budgeting between Williamstown and Lanesborough that were adopted by the committee. 
 
The candidates answered five questions we put to them that can be found here

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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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