Williamstown Launches AlertWilliamstown

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Town of Williamstown has launched AlertWilliamstown, a new mass notification system powered by Regroup, replacing CodeRED as the Town's official platform for emergency alerts and community notifications.
 
AlertWilliamstown delivers fast, reliable, location-specific alerts directly to residents' phones, email, or text — keeping the community informed and prepared when it matters most, stated a press release. The system will be used to notify subscribers about emergencies, severe weather events, and important town announcements.
 
The system is administered by the Town's Communications Department in partnership with the Williamstown Police Department and the IT Department.
 
Residents who were previously signed up for CodeRED do not need to re-register — most subscriber information has already been transferred to AlertWilliamstown. However, former CodeRED subscribers are encouraged to log in and review their contact preferences to ensure they are receiving alerts through their preferred channels.
 
All residents, employees, and students who are part of the Williamstown community are encouraged to sign up. No password is required to register; a password is only needed to download the optional mobile app or to update notification preferences. Residents without a mobile phone may also sign up using a landline.
 
To sign up or manage your account, visit https://williamstownma.gov/alertwilliamstown/
 
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Theater Review: 'Driving Miss Daisy' Is a 'Wondrous' Production

By Alan PetrucelliSpecial to iBerkshires
PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Alfred Uhry's "Driving Miss Daisy" rolled into the St. Germain Stage in late May, marking the opening of Barrington Stage Company's 2026 season.
 
And what a wondrous, welcoming production it is. Uhry won a Pulitzer Prize for his work; he won an Oscar for the 1989 film adaptation of the play, which also won the Best Picture Oscar. Yes, that's how good it is.
 
Daisy Werthan is a 72-year-old white Jewish widow in Atlanta whose car accident destroyed her Packard — and her chance to ever drive herself again.
 
"Mama, we are just going to have to hire someone to drive you," her adult son Boolie tells her. 
 
She is adamant: "What I do not want — and absolutely will not have — is some chauffeur sitting in my kitchen, gobbling my food and running up my phone bill."
 
Enter Hoke Colburn, an unemployed African-American illiterate who grew up in rural Georgia during the Jim Crow-era South. Boolie hires him at $20 a week, and in a span of 85 minutes and a decade or so, this odd couple develop a tight bond that overcomes their cultural, gender and class differences. 
 
Though she's living in a racially explosive time in the South, the irascible Miss Daisy doesn't consider herself racist, nor does she fully accept the realities of the racist culture that has even resulted in a bombing at her own synagogue (a true event in Atlanta, in 1958).
 
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