Clark Art Presents Concert By Davone Tines With Ruckus

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute welcomes the return of renowned early music band, Ruckus, for a new concert performance featuring acclaimed bass-baritone Davóne Tines on Friday, Oct. 24.

The group will present a new program, "What is Your Hand in This?," as part of a national tour leading up to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The performance takes place at 7 pm in the Clark’s Manton Research Center auditorium.

In a biting exploration of American revolutionary music, they time-travel through four centuries of reimagined songs, hymns, and ballads, along with a newly commissioned work by composer Doug Balliett and Tines. It’s an ideal meeting of artistic sensibilities, as Tines—whose eye-opening programming, vulnerable performances, and powerhouse vocals are “redefining the rules and rituals of classical music” (San Francisco Classical Voice)—meets the visceral might of Ruckus, known for combining a baroque band’s questing spirit with the grit, groove, and jangle of American roots music as “the world’s only period instrument rock band” (San Francisco Chronicle).

Tickets $25 ($20 members, $16 college students, $5 children 17 and under). Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524. For tickets and more information, visit clarkart.edu/events. No refunds.

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Mount Greylock School Committee Hears Budget Requests, Pressures

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
05:32AM / Wednesday, February 18, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School Committee Thursday heard the final rounds of fiscal year 2027 budget requests and heard why those — or any — discretionary increases in spending will be difficult in the year that begins July 1.

Williamstown Elementary Principal Benjamin Torres and middle-high school Principal Jake Schutz each presented the spending priorities formulated by their respective school councils. The requests followed a presentation by Lanesborough Elementary Principal Nolan Pratt at the January meeting.

Superintendent Joseph Bergeron then told the School Committee that state and federal aid to the district is going to be slightly lower than FY26 and reminded the panel that the district spent the last two years spending down its reserve accounts, as requested by the member towns, to the point where those reserves — School Choice, tuition and excess and deficiency — cannot be applied to the operating budget.

"Spending the exact same amount of money from this year to next year — that alone will mean a 4 percent increase [in appropriations] to each of our towns," Bergeron said. "That's the baseline on top of which everything else will happen.

"We know we're seeing an 8.75 percent increase in health insurance, but we also have an increasing number of employees who are taking our health insurance, so that health insurance line is increasing substantially. When it comes to out-of-district tuition as well as transportation, both of those are seeing marked increases as well."

District staff and the School Committee will further refine its FY27 budget over the next five weeks, with a budget workshop scheduled for Tuesday, March 3, and a public hearing and final budget vote on March 19.

The district's appropriations to Williamstown and Lanesborough, which each pay a proportional share of the prekindergarten-Grade 12 district's operating expenses, will face an up-or-down vote at each town's annual meeting, in May and June, respectively.

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