Images Celebrates Final Weekend of Current Theater

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

Williamstown Recognizes Local Farmer, Library Director at Town Meeting

By Tammy Daniels iBerkshires Staff
09:35AM / Thursday, May 21, 2026

Win Chenail has had a farm stand at his Luce Road dairy farm since 1965. The Chenails have been farming in Williamstown since 1916. Right, Select Board Chair Stephanie Boyd thanks board members whose terms were up this year. 

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — For more than 60 years, Winthrop F. Chenail has been selling his bountiful crops to residents of Williamstown and beyond. 

 

"The family dairy farm at the top of Luce Road has been an anchor farm in our community since 1916," said Elisabeth Goodman. "His farm stand has been operating since 1965 and that's where we get our sweet corn, homegrown tomatoes, cucumbers, broccoli, cabbage, peppers, summer squash flowers, and pumpkins that he and his grandson Nick Chenail grow as a side business to the family dairy farm."

 

Win Chenail's integrity, excellence, and dedication of service to the citizens of Williamstown was recognized at the annual town meeting on Tuesday with the 11th annual Scarborough Solomon Flint Community Service Award.

 

"At age 90, Win has not slowed down much," Goodman said. "I never did get to speak to him on the phone when notifying him about this award, as his wife told me he was busy in the greenhouse repotting 2,000 tomato plants."

 

Five generations have worked the Mount Williams Dairy Farm that Chenail's grandparents purchased, and Chenail's also been a caretaker of 130 acres of town land at the Spruces and Burbank properties. 

 

"The Chenail family has been managing the land since the 1950s keeping the fields green, lush, and productive with sustainable management practices," she said. "They fertilize it with manure from the dairy farm and lime as needed. With such careful, long-term stewardship of the soil, the land has continued to be fertile and productive for half a century under his fare."

 

Chenail thanked his family and fellow farmers for contributing to the welfare of the community and said it had been a privilege to keep the town-owned fields in farming.