Images Celebrates Final Weekend of Current Theater

04:09PM / Tuesday, September 23, 2025Print Story | Email Story

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Images Cinema will be temporarily closing its main theater starting in October, and is celebrating the space and cinema with a series of events the weekend of Sept. 26 - 28.

Images is in the process of its Look Forward Capital Campaign to raise money to complete a major renovation of its main theater, carve out a second theater space, and outfit both spaces with brand-new sound and projection equipment, as well as new, comfortable seats.

Images Cinema is located at 50 Spring Street, Williamstown, MA.

On Friday, Sept. 26, there will be live music in the Lounge from 7 - 8 pm by Ciarra Fragale.

On Saturday, Sept. 27, and Sunday, Sept. 28, 6:30-8pm, Images will host Social Time in the Lounge with special themed cocktails available for purchase at the bar.

The main event kicking off the weekend is a special benefit screening featuring stage and screen actor David Strathairn. Tickets for this one-night-only showing start at $20. Tickets for the rest of the weekend's special community celebration screenings are available for just $5.

Event Details:

"A Little Prayer"

With special guest David Strathairn

Friday, Sept. 26 at 7:30 pm

A benefit event to support Images Cinema's Look Forward Capital Campaign featuring David Strathairn in conversation with Kevin O'Rourke

Tickets are $20 with the option to add a donation to the capital campaign.

https://www.imagescinema.org/movie/a-little-prayer

US Premiere: "CTRL-V"

Friday, Sept. 26, at 10 pm

Film followed by Q&A with Jack Criddle and David Jackson (Racer Trash, Dream Video Division)

Tickets are $5

https://www.imagescinema.org/checkout/showing/ctrl-v/2108936

Staff Picks: "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" (1985)

Saturday, Sept. 27, 4:30pm

Tickets $5

https://www.imagescinema.org/movie/pee-wees-big-adventure-1985

Staff Picks: "Boogie Nights" (1997)

Friday, Sept. 27, at 8pm

Tickets $5

https://www.imagescinema.org/movie/boogie-nights

Staff Picks: "King Kong" (1933)

Saturday, Sept. 28 at 4:30pm

Tickets $5

https://www.imagescinema.org/checkout/showing/king-kong-1933/2063511

Staff Picks: "Hausu" (1977)

Saturday, Sept. 28, at 8 pm

Tickets $5

https://www.imagescinema.org/movie/hausu-1977

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Local Authorities Responding to State's Action on Kratom

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
10:43AM / Tuesday, August 18, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Board of Health on Monday began a discussion about regulating the sale of kratom products in town.

The board's monthly meeting came four days after the governor's office in Boston announced that the commonwealth temporarily will designate kratom, also known by its chemical name and marketed with the term "7-OH" as a Schedule I drug, greatly restricting its sale in Massachusetts as of Aug. 28.

The board already was meeting virtually with the director of South County's Tri-Town Health Department on a different matter. Jim Wilusz stayed on the conference call to discuss the implications of Gov. Maura Healey's Thursday announcement on 7-OH, which the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has called potentially "The Next Wave of the Opioid Epidemic."

Wilusz said he already was working on draft regulations for Tri-Town based, in part, on an ordinance enacted by Northampton before Gov. Maura Healey's announcement. But in the wake of the announcement and the classification of kratom as a Schedule I drug, he might have to change the language of the proposed ordinance.

Healey's emergency order of Aug. 14 is intended to "give local boards of health and other municipal officials additional authority to take enforcement action against retailers selling kratom products," according to a news release announcing the move.

"I was actually hoping they were going to pass a statewide ban on this thing," Wilusz said. "This goes into effect Aug. 28, so effective the 28th, they can't have kratom in the entire state on their shelves with a one-year [period] to give not only boards of health but, possibly, the Legislature, time to enact regulation.

"I don't know if the intent is to work on a statewide Department of Public Health regulation, which would be ideal, where you would have uniformity across the entire state. It does authorize the boards of health to enact local regulations."

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