Clark Art Hosts Talk By Poet and Scholar

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday, Nov. 8 at 6 pm, the Clark Art Institute hosts poet, scholar, and Paris Review poetry editor Srikanth Reddy. 
 
This free event takes place in the Manton Research Center auditorium. A book signing follows the talk.
 
According to a press release:
 
Reddy joins novelist and the Clark's Research and Academic Program's Special Projects Coordinator Sara Houghteling to discuss his latest book, "The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures" (Wave Books, 2024). In it, Reddy refracts poems by the likes of Homer, Gertrude Stein, and Ronald Joconchnson through images such as Bruegel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, Hermann Rorschach's inkblots, and Galileo's drawings of the moon. 
 
Free. Accessible seats available.

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Williamstown Fire District Facing Emergency Repair on Fire Engine

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Fire District is looking at a major unplanned expense to get one of its engines back on the road.
 
Last week, Chief Craig Pedercini told the Prudential Committee that an issue on Engine 2 that officials planned to address in fiscal year 2026 reached the point where he had to pull the apparatus from service.
 
"[Nov. 22], when the truck came back from a visit up to the day-care center, the driver noticed that the mud flap on the driver's side was less than an inch off the floor here in the truck room," Pedercini said at the monthly meeting of the committee that oversees the district. "Looking underneath, we found that at least one section [of the subframe] had broken underneath, and things were starting to give way on the back end of the truck.
 
"So I took the truck out of service on Friday. And we got some people together and took the water off the truck immediately just to get the weight off it. Then, Saturday, we took off the hose and started emptying compartments in the reward section.
 
"I wouldn't even drive it to Connecticut to have it looked at."
 
That means the best option will be to have the truck hauled on a flatbed to Alliance Used Truck Center in Hartford, Conn., where the department normally has its engines serviced. Pedercini told the committee that it will cost about $700 to put the engine on a flatbed and haul it to Connecticut.
 
But that is just the start of the anticipated bill
 
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