Williams to celebrate 89th Winter Carnival

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Williamstown - Williams College will celebrate its 89th Winter Carnival with five days of activities, scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 12, through Sunday. Feb. 16. The public is invited to attend the festivities, which will include ski races, fireworks, and a film festival. All events are free. This year's carnival, Moo-nage a Trois, honors the college mascot (a purple cow), the third year of the millennium, and Valentine's Day. The Williams Outing Club's Winter Film Festival is scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 12, at 8 p.m. in Bronfman Auditorium. A Citizen's Nordic Race, open to students, faculty, staff, and community members, will be held Thursday, Feb. 13,at 4 p.m. on Weston Field. All ages and abilities are welcome and encouraged to participate. A "magnificent fireworks display" is planned for Friday, Feb. 14 at 9:20 p.m. at Weston Field. There will be seating on the bleachers, but warm clothing is recommended. (Rain/snow date: Saturday, Feb. 15.) A men's and women's intercollegiate ski race will take place on Friday and Saturday. The alpine races are scheduled for Jiminy Peak in Hancock for Friday and Saturday at 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. The Nordic races will be held at Prospect Mountain in Woodford, Vt., Friday at 10 and 11:30 a.m., and Saturday at 9:30 and 10:45 a.m. Competing colleges include the University of Vermont, Dartmouth, Middlebury, Bowdoin, and Bates. There will also be men's (7 p.m., Friday, and 3 p.m., Saturday) and women's (7 p.m., Saturday and 3 p.m. on Sunday) ice hockey games and a men's (3 p.m., Saturday) basketball games on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Winter Carnival events also will include a contradance, broomball tournament, extreme sledding, and snow sculpture contest. The first Winter Carnival at Williams, held in February 1915, was an impromptu event organized by a handful of students. Over time, it evolved into a campus holiday with intercollegiate ski races and a wide range of on-campus programming. This year's activities were planned by the Williams Outing Club. For more information, call Willard Morgan, interim Outing Club Director, at (413) 597-2317.
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North Adams Clothing Store Moving to Larger Space

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Label Shopper is moving across the parking lot to the former Peebles location in April.
 
The discount clothing store has been located in the downtown's L-shaped mall downtown since 2009. It replaced Fashion Bug, which had been in that spot for 24 years before closing in 2007; the company liquidated in 2013. 
 
Label Shopper is part of Peter Harris Clothes, established in 1970 by Peter Elitzer. Starting as a single store in Latham, N.Y., offering brand-name apparel at discount prices, the company operates more than 70 stores throughout the Northeast and Midwest.
 
The store is set to close on April 6 for the move and reopen on April 9 in the former Gordmans, according to signage. 
 
Gordmans briefly replaced Peebles in the former Kmart until the parent company of the two brands declared bankruptcy and closed its stores in 2020. 
 
At 17,250 square feet, the Gordman's space is at least double the size of Label Shopper's current location.
 
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