Williamstown News

Even at two o'clock on a Tuesday afternoon, the small interior of the AFrame Bakery is bustling with activity as a steady stream of customers come and go, along with various muffins, cookies, and other desserts.

"Place Clichy", 1874, by Giovanni Boldini. Oil on canvas, 23 5/8 x 38 5/8 inches.

Northern Berkshire Healthcare is seeking to partner with a health care organization in Massachusetts as it faces a huge loss this fiscal year, with a deficit projected at $8.1 million and no improvement in the economy foreseen.

Two local men involved in a two-car crash at the intersection of Main Street and Cole Avenue on Saturday evening are both being charged with drunk driving.

A Williamstown man was sentenced to five to six years in state prison after pleading guilty to drug charges in Berkshire Superior Court this week.

A reviewer of the 1897 Paris Salon wrote that to encounter one of Giovanni Boldini's flamboyant portraits of society beauties was to see "a woman, and in her the entire age." Chiefly famous for his portraits of wealthy, often titled "Belle Epoque women," Boldini also painted the composer Giuseppe Verdi, the artist James MacNeill Whistler and the ...

Five local students, reading biographies they had written about five local veterans, were the honorary speakers at Veterans Day exercises on Wednesday.

The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute is moving forward with the second phase of a project to expand and enhance its campus.

The past 15 months of cramped quarters will soon come to an end at the Bonnie Lea Farm off Simonds Road, as efforts are underway to build a new barn to replace the one destroyed by fire in August 2008.

What began as an effort to get local children to jam with one another at the Youth Center led to a separate initiative resulting in local adults forming a band.

Union officials at North Adams Regional Hospital charged Friday that hospital management has presented employees with a list of 18 demands that, among other things, threaten retirement benefits, overtime pay and seniority status for the number of years worked at the hospital.

Richard Wilbur , one of America's most beloved poets, will read from his works at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, November 8, in St.

Trying to remember who won what and why? All the information is right here. Hamburg Recall A half-million pounds of hamburger are being recalled from area supermarkets because of possible E.coli contamination.

Saturday, November 14, at 7:00 p.m. Wordplay, a monthly reading series co-sponsored by Inkberry and Papyri Books , 45 Eagle Street, will present poets Janet MacFadyen, Susan Middleton, Susie Patlove, and Paula Sayword, who will read from their work.

Trying to remember who won what and why? All the information is right here. Hamburg Recall A half-million pounds of hamburger are being recalled from area supermarkets because of possible E.coli contamination.

After being headquartered for almost 60 years at 34 Water St., the Fire District is looking to build a new fire station.

Berkshire Grown will host the Berkshire Grown Holiday Farmers' Market on Saturday, Nov.

Colonial Theatre The stage is set at Pittsfield's gilded palace, the Colonial Theatre, for a return of last year's acclaimed Ballets Metropolis production of Dracula, just in time for Halloween.

Williams College has received a building permit to construct an extension for the main stage in Chapin Hall, after the existing extension was declared in violation of the state fire code earlier this year.

Craft puppets, celebrate the season in verse, and sing and drum yourself silly! Or, just watch! The First Congregational Church of Williamstown, Massachusett s, invites the public to their free event "Give Christmas a-Way: Preparing a Simple Season" from 11:45 am-3 pm on Sunday, November 22.