St. John's Announces Organ Dedication Recital

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St. John's Announces Organ Dedication Recital
 
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. St. John's Episcopal Church announced the completion of their new pipe organ, officially named "Opus 4" of the renowned Ortloff Organ Company of Needham. 
 
The new organ will be dedicated in a recital on Sunday, November 2, starting at 3:00 p.m. It will
feature Dr. Tim Pyper, director of music for St. John's, playing music of J. S. Bach, Mendelssohn, and others. All are welcome to attend. Admission is free. A reception will follow immediately after the recital.
 
"Jonathan Ortloff and his company have done a wonderful job producing an instrument which above all is designed to lead and support congregational singing," said Dr. Pyper. "Yet it also has beautiful qualities as a solo instrument. We view this organ as not only an enhancement to the church itself but also as a benefit for music lovers generally in the Berkshires."
 
St. John's Williamstown is a multi-generational congregation of about 300 members.
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Williamstown Fire Committee Sees FY27 Budget with Sizable Operational Increase

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff

The Prudential Committee held its first meeting in the new station in late March with Treasurer Billie Jo Sawyer, left and committee members Lindsay Neathawk, David Moresi and Craig Pedercini.
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Prudential Committee last week reviewed a draft annual fire district meeting warrant that includes an operational expenses budget up 9.4 percent from the figures approved at the May 2025 annual meeting.
 
And, with a new line item added to the district's operational budget the total increase is closer to 24 percent.
 
Last May, meeting members — the meeting is open to all registered voters in town — approved an FY26 spending plan that totaled $686,991.
 
On July 1, the first day of the fiscal year, a special district meeting voted to allocate $40,000 from the district's stabilization fund to the operating budget, effectively raising the baseline to $726,991, a 34 percent increase, year over year, from FY25 to FY26.
 
The July 1 meeting moved $20,000 of stabilization funds to the firefighter pay line and $20,000 to the maintenance and operation line — nearly doubling the former and raising the latter by 75 percent from FY25 to FY26.
 
Both those lines are up again in the planned FY27 budget, but more modestly: 2 percent for M&O (up from $123,000 to $125,500) and 27 percent for firefighter payroll ($110,000 to $139,900).
 
Most of the other line items net out to no significant change; some are up a little, some are down a little.
 
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