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North Adams, MA - The Mayor's Office of Tourism is seeking volunteers to help staff the Tourist booth on Union Street in the city. Volunteering for the booth is easy and a lot of fun and only requires answering simple requests for meals, lodging and directions from tourists. The booth is open from June 1 through October 13. Call 413.664.6180, 413.652.3246 for more information.
Greylock-region high-school students are being invited onto the Williams College campus this coming weekend for workshops on political activism in the second-annual Berkshire Institute for Student Activism, according to Stuart Burns, a Williams administrator helping organize the gathering.
The day of events, starting Saturday (Feb. 23) at 9 a.m., is free and open, with lunch provided. For more information or to register, go to: http://www.williams.edu/resources/commservice/bisa , or read the FULL NEWS RELEASE.
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and Bennington College students are also participating in the day of workshops on Saturday on leadership, negotiation, building communicatin coalitions and on issues such as health care, immigrant rights, climate change, food security, violence against women and promoting college access.
Feature presenters include Randy kehler, an organizer of the Safe and Green campaign to close the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant; Chip Joffe-Hapern, director of Echo-Health Care and an architect of Massachusetts health-care reform; and Jo Comerford, program director of the Western Mass. Food Bank.
North Adams, MA - A federal grant, called Compassion Massachusetts, has recently been awarded to Berkshire County through the Berkshire Youth Development Project. Through this project, $100,000 will be distributed each year in the form of direct grants to eligible small community organizations. The primary goals of the grants are to expand the capacity of the Berkshire's existing small community organizations (including both faith-based and non-faith based organizations) to deliver social services to Berkshire County's at risk youth. Preference will be given to community organizations that have not traditionally received federal funding, have a fiscal budget less than $500,000 and serve at-risk youth between the ages of 14-24 and/or their families.
An informal informational session will be held on February 20, 2008 from 1-3 PM at the First Baptist Church in North Adams to discuss this proposal. Kathleen Jackson along with representatives from the University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute will be there to answer questions about the grant. For further information please contact the Northern Berkshire Community Coalition office or Kathleen Jackson at 413-528-1919.
The only radio station with a local studio in Bennington, Vt., WBTN 1370-AM, may be shut down by its college owner in May unless a new operator or owner comes forward. Southern Vermont College said in a statement it is open to proposals from community members but can't continue to carry the losses the station has incurred since the college was given the station in 2001, a news release from the college said. Southern Vermont College sponsored a day-long symposium on the station's future in May of 2007.
North Adams, MA - The public is invited to a forum facilitated by the Northern Berkshire Community Coalition at the First Baptist Church at the corner of Eagle and Main Street on Friday, December 14, at 10:00 AM. Assisting Elders to Live in Their Own Environment will be the topic of discussion. Coffee, tea, other beverages and pastries will be served.
Williamstown Town Manager Peter Fohlin made public on Friday a letter he had written to the North Adams Transcript clarifying his views about the nature of the relationship between town government and Williams College.
The context of the letter is many years of discussion about whether taxpayers would be better off if the town requested from Williams an annual "payment in lieu of taxes" rather than periodic requests for one-time capital-spending or grant assistance. Fohlin was reacting to a headline in the daily paper published on Thursday which read: "College pays its share." Fohlin's entire letter, as supplied to GreylockNews, can be read here.
What's your opinion about the notion of a regular, semi-fixed annual payment from Williams to the town, rather than periodic infusions for specific projects? Help town officials form their thinking by posting a comment below.
North Adams, MA - Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts will observe Constitution Day on Monday, Sept. 17, with a 3 pm free presentation by North Adams attorney and MCLA visiting lecturer Richard Taskin in the Sullivan Lounge, in the Amsler Campus Center.
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