Construction Begins on Images Cinema's Two-Screen Theater Renovation

01:44PM / Wednesday, October 22, 2025Print Story | Email Story

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. Images Cinema, the Williamstown movie house, has begun work on its long planned Capital Project to renovate and upgrade its facility.

While its Main Theater is closed for renovations, programming continues in its Lounge space with Bartender hours and Cinema Lounge shows and continuing community events.

"We're very excited to begin work on this important project," said Images Board Chair Kevin O'Rourke. "Images is, and has been for years, an anchor of Spring Street and the Williamstown business community. The overwhelming support of the community, including our members, has been incredible."

So far, the LOOK FORWARD Campaign has raised over $2.4 million dollars from individuals, state and local government, corporations, foundations and local community leaders — enough to start the initial work on the project. Fundraising will continue during construction as the institution aims to meet increased costs and assure successful completion of this project. This renovation project will address Images' responsibility as the only movie theater in the Northern Berkshires and ensure it's long-term success. More details about the Capital Campaign and the renovation can be found at imagescinema.org/look-forward.

Moresi & Associates Development Company is taking the lead on this project, with demolition and renovation of the Main Theater space begun earlier this month. Work will continue through the winter with a projected opening in March. The goal is to create two smaller screening spaces: a 70-seat theater and a second 19-seat theater, allowing for simultaneous screenings and increased opportunities to better serve Images' diverse audience. In addition to the new screening rooms, upgraded and enhanced seating, projectors, audio and acoustics are part of this renovation. Audio/Visual installation will be designed and completed by Boston Light & Sound, and the theater plans were designed by Pittsfield's Hill Engineers in collaboration with theater consultants Charcoal Blue.

The Images Renovation and Construction Taskforce is composed of senior leadership from Images Cinema, including staff, the Board of Directors, and the Advisory Board. Members of this taskforce bring design and construction experience, including from local theater projects, such as the Clark Art Institute and the Adams Theater. The Taskforce is chaired by Matthew Brogan, who before moving to the Berkshires as a full-time resident and as the co-proprietor of the Berkshire Cider Project, worked full-time in theatrical design for major projects throughout the country with Fisher Dachs Associates. This Taskforce has sourced and will oversee the work of all contractors and consultants performing the planning and production of this project.

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Mount Greylock School Committee OKs Updated Policy on Seclusion, Restraint

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
05:57AM / Tuesday, August 25, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock School Committee recently approved an updated policy on time-outs, seclusion and the physical restraint of students.

The policy is based on updated state regulations that came down last winter. Superintendent Joseph Bergeron told the panel at its August meeting that his office waited on recommendations from the Massachusetts Association of School Committees that were released in May and ran the proposed changes past the district's legal counsel.

That timing — and an expectation from the commonwealth that districts have the updated policy in place for the start of the 2026-27 academic year — led to an expedited process for the School Committee, which did not do a first read with a vote at a subsequent meeting as is its practice.

"Policy JKAA speaks to the ways the school district and our procedures shall abide by the updated state regulations," Bergeron said. "We're not going to have a lot of leeway.

"Nothing about the way we interact with our students on a day-to-day basis is being shifted by this."

For example, the commonwealth does not allow schools to use "seclusion," or, "the involuntary confinement of a student alone in a room or area, with or without adult supervision," except some extreme cases, like when, "when student behavior poses an imminent threat of assault, or imminent serious physical harm to self or others, but only if safeguards are accounted for," the updated policy reads.

"From the state's perspective and my perspective, the idea of locking a child in a room without adult supervision is something we've never done," Bergeron said. "And it's something the state wants to make explicitly that nobody ever does."

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