Select Board scheduled to meet in EMERGENCY MTG at 8:00am, THU/OCT 21 virtually via Zoom.

WilliNet will broadcast on ch 1303 & stream live on willinet.org. Select Board said to move immediately into Executive Session… stay tuned..

Public invited to meet 2 finalists for Town Manager position: 6-8pm, THU 10/21 at Williams Inn.

The candidates are Richard Downey, the Village Administrator of Kronenwetter, Wisconsin and Debra Jarvis, consultant with Vision Values LCC in Overland Park, Kansas. On Friday, 10/22, 9am-noon, the public is welcome to attend the in-person candidate interviews by the Select Board taking place at Town Hall. (Town Hall will be open this Friday) Watch the interviews live stream on willinet.org & broadcast on TV ch 1303.

Not the Last of the Mohicans: A History of The Stockbridge-Munsee Community, virtual event 12-3pm, Sat. Oct 16.

NOT THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS: A HISTORY OF THE STOCKBRIDGE-MUNSEE COMMUNITY
Saturday, October 16, 12-3pm
Via Zoom.  Registration Required.

Registrants will receive an email with a private Zoom link to this live virtual program before the event. This program will also be broadcasting via Facebook Live: https://www.facebook.com/clarkartinstitute/live

When James Fenmore Cooper wrote “Last of the Mohicans” he created a narrative that has lasted centuries.  But it was a false narrative.  The Mohican Nation is alive and well today with a rich history that spans before colonization – the land that today we call Williamstown is part of their ancestral homelands.  Join Heather Bruegl, Director of Education at Forge Project, to learn about who the Stockbridge-Munsee Community is and how they are not the Last of the Mohicans.

WAM Theatre opens: KAMLOOPA: An Indigenous Matriarch Story – Oct. 7-24.

WAM Theatre presents the US Premiere of KAMLOOPA: An Indigenous Matriarch Story by Kim Senklip Harvey. Learn more at wamtheatre.com. This hilarious transformation story is presented LIVE in a COVID safe production at the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre at Shakespeare & Company from October 7-24, and streams digitally from November 1-7.

KAMLOOPA is high energy comedy that follows two urban Indigenous sisters and their encounter with a lawless trickster, as they explore what it means to honor who they are and where they come from.

Williamstown Community Chest: Flynt Grant Application deadline Oct. 1

For  more info & application: https://williamstowncommunitychest.org/portfolio-posts/flynt-grant/ Grants awarded to “…persons or entities (including the Town of Williamstown) that provide services to the town or its residents (although not necessarily exclusively).” The criteria for reviewing applications will “…relate to the maintenance or improvement of the quality of life of the residents of Williamstown, defined broadly.”