Berkshire Green Drinks to Feature Hoffmann Bird Club

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Berkshire Green Drinks will host a presentation by Audrey Werner and Steven Miller of the Hoffmann Bird Club on Wednesday, May 21, at 6:00 p.m.

The event, titled "Flock Together with Hoffmann Bird Club," will be hybrid, taking place online via Zoom and in person at The Barn Kitchen & Bar of the Williams Inn, located at 103 Spring St, Williamstown, MA. An in-person social gathering will begin around 5:15 p.m.

The presentation will introduce attendees to the Hoffmann Bird Club, a Berkshire County nature organization. Werner and Miller, members of the club's executive committee, will discuss the club's history, upcoming bird walks and events, and its community science initiatives focused on bird conservation. The event is open to all, regardless of birding experience or equipment.

Participants can learn about birding in the Berkshires and how to get involved with the Hoffmann Bird Club.

Registration and further information are available at tinyurl.com/May2025-Berks-Green-Drinks.

The Hoffmann Bird Club, founded in 1940, aims to promote the study of birds in Berkshire County. Meetings are held from September to May and are open to the public. The club organizes field trips for birders of all levels.

Berkshire Green Drinks is an informal monthly gathering featuring speakers on environmental topics, followed by discussion. The event is sponsored and organized by the Berkshire Environmental Action Team (BEAT). For more information, contact BEAT at [email address removed] or by phone at (413) 464-9402.

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Willinet Cameras to Capture Monday's Williamstown Select Board Session

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
02:31PM / Saturday, October 24, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board's third-floor meeting to complete its evaluation process for the town manager will be televised by the town's public, educational and governmental television station.

Willinet Executive Director Teri Yuan confirmed this week that the station will put a camera in the upstairs conference room to record a planned 8 p.m. single-item agenda meeting to do the annual review of Town Manager Robert Menicocci.

The board at its last meeting decided to break the evaluation out from its regular 7 p.m. meeting in the first floor Community Meeting room, which is set up with multiple cameras and audio equipment to facilitate live Willinet telecasts of most public meetings of town boards and committees.

The Select Board offered no real explanation for the desire to complete the evaluation in an otherwise public meeting outside of view from Willinet's cameras other than a desire to "sit around the table" rather than sit on one side of a large table along one side of the first floor meeting room.

The "sit around the table" talk was particularly puzzling given the fact that Willinet has a camera mounted on the wall behind the spot where Menicocci generally sits for Select Board meetings, a camera that gives a full view of both sides of the table, and an angle that Willinet frequently uses when panels like the Finance Committee invite participants to sit across the table from the committee to give testimony.

Perhaps the real reason is better explained by a joking comment from one Select Board member at the Sept. 28 meeting who indicated that doing the evaluation without access to things like Zoom capability was "the object" of moving that business to the third-floor meeting room.

The evaluation discussion on Monday evening will follow on a survey of the five board members assessing Menicocci's performance in fiscal year 2026, which ended on June 30.

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