Clark Art Screens 'Shotgun Stories'

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, April 3, the Clark Art Institute continues its Small Town film series with a screening of Shotgun Stories (2007) at 6 pm in the Manton Research Center.

According to a press release:

Shotgun Stories hinges on the death of a father and the revenge of his sons. The sons he abandoned, a band of misfit brothers headed by Son (Michael Shannon), crash his funeral, which prompts the sons he had with his new wife to seek revenge. While the “dead-ass town” that the two branches of the family share is vague and seemingly sprawling, their blood feud binds them claustrophobically together. It’s an age-old problem, a town that just isn’t big enough for the both of them. A Shakespearean climax inevitably awaits these angry, grieving men. Director Jeff Nichols interweaves the action with slow moments weighed down by all that has been left unsaid. Shot in fifteen days on 35mm with a crew of just fifteen, this lithe production was able to shoot on location relatively unnoticed and was Nichols’ debut feature. (Run time: 1 hour, 32 minutes)

Free. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524. For more information, visit clarkart.edu/events.

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2025 Year in Sports: Mount Greylock Girls Track Was County's Top Story

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
08:43AM / Sunday, December 28, 2025

Mount Greylock Regional School did not need an on-campus track to be a powerhouse.

But it did not hurt.

In the same spring that it held its first meets on its new eight-lane track, Mount Greylock won its second straight Division 6 State Championship to become the story of the year in high school athletics in Berkshire County.

"It meant so much this year to be able to come and compete on our own track and have people come here – especially having Western Mass here, it's such a big meet,"Mounties standout Katherine Goss said at the regional meet in late May. "It's nice to win on our own track.”

A week later at the other end of the commonwealth, Goss placed second in the triple jump and 100-meter hurdles and third in the 400 hurdles to help the Mounties finish nearly five points ahead of the field.

Her teammates Josephine Bay, Cornelia Swabey, Brenna Lopez and Vera de Jong ran circles around the competition with a nine-second win in the 4-by-800 relay. And the Mounties placed second in the 4-by-400 relay while picking up a third-place showing from Nora Lopez in the javelin.

Mount Greylock's girls won a third straight Western Mass Championship on the day the school's boys team claimed a fourth straight title. At states, the Mounties finished fifth in Division 6.

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