Clark Art Final First Sunday Free of the Season

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute holds its final First Sunday Free of the season on Sunday, May 5 with "Giddy Up!"
 
Offering free admission from 10 am–5 pm, the Clark will feature a pop-up installation of prints and drawings of horses in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper from 11 am–1 pm, plus a series of horse-themed special activities from 1–4 pm.
 
According to a press release:
 
Did you know that Sterling Clark, one of the founders of the museum, was an art collector and horse breeder? Channel Sterling's love for both horses and art with a day of horse-inspired art and art-making. Follow an activity guide around the galleries to see which depictions of horses make you say "yay" or "neigh," or join a Clark educator for a closer look at Frederic Remington's paintings of horses. Visit the Clark Center lower level and grab hold of your artistic reins with creations inspired by these captivating creatures—like paper horses with joints you can move!
 
Free admission all day.
 
Family programs are supported by Allen & Company.

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Williamstown Officials Mull ARPA Funds to Address School Race Issue

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board on Monday will consider considered dedicating some of the town's remaining ARPA funds to address an emergency situation in the local public schools.
 
Randal Fippinger brought the idea to the board in response to detailed testimony on racist incidents at Williamstown Elementary School and Mount Greylock Regional School that were raised both to the town's diversity committee and the Mount Greylock Regional School Committee.
 
Last week, the School Committee was asked to form a task force to address the issue and to bring in an outside consultant to advise the district on how to properly train its staff and, going forward, create a more inclusive environment in the preK-12 system.
 
On Monday, Fippinger suggested an amount, $27,000, that the town could spend to help pay for the consultant and a source for that money: the remaining American Rescue Plan Act funds that need to be committed by the end of the calendar year.
 
Fippinger raised the idea during a continuation of a discussion from the board's April 22 meeting about a request from Town Manager Robert Menicocci to allocate nearly $80,000 in ARPA funds for a sewer project.
 
With only three Select Board members present at the April 22 meeting, they decided to take no action on the request. But in the April meeting, Fippinger and Menicocci offered differing recollections of the board's intentions for about $166,000 remaining from the nearly $2 million ARPA allocation.
 
Menicocci said it was his understanding that the board was OK with him counting on the remaining funds for infrastructure needs. Fippinger countered that the board had made no such commitment and was still open to addressing other priorities with the federal aid.
 
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