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Purchase a raffle ticket for your chance to win a special quilt made by artist and quilter, Judith Smith, of Pownal, Vermont.
Having painted in watercolors and oils, Judith started quilting in 1996 after moving to Vermont and now “paints with fabric.” She is a member of the Quiet Valley Quilters Guild where she has co-chaired [...]

June 15, 2010 (www.williams.edu/messages/show.php?id=13897)
The Board has approved a College gift to the construction of a new Williamstown Youth Center building of $500,000, paid over 13 years. This enables us to participate, in a way that’s sensitive to the College’s financial situation, in an important project for the community, including many students, faculty, and staff.
The [...]

The Williamstown Boys’ Club: A Brief History
Charles R. Keller, Brown Professor of History, Emeritus, Williams College
CLUBS IN THE EARLY YEARS, 1901-1928
What is now the Williamstown Boys’ Club had its origins in the Progressive movement in the early years of the twentieth century. It was part of the reawakening of the spirit that led people [...]

The New Williamstown Youth Center, Frequently Asked Questions
Q. WHY DO WE NEED A NEW YOUTH CENTER?
A. The current Cole Avenue facility was built over a century ago, and has housed the WYC since 1934. Its aging and inadequate facility is no longer able to support the growth in demand for its services. We are faced [...]

Campaign For New Youth Center Marches On
By Patrick Ronan
iBerkshires Staff
09:33PM / Tuesday, May 04, 2010
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Kids at the Williamstown Youth Center are walking the plank, and it has nothing to do with make-believe games involving pirates.
Because of frequent flooding in the facility’s basement, kids are forced to [...]

Tuesday May 4, 2010
North Adams Transcript

WILLIAMSTOWN — Although it’s the middle of spring, the Williamstown Youth Center is reviving the Snowball — an annual dance for adults that had been on hiatus — in an effort to raise funds to build a new facility on the elementary school’s grounds.
In order to fit [...]

Please join us at the Williamstown Youth Center for two Informational Open House events on Sunday May 23 from 4:00 – 5:00 pm and Thursday, May 27 from 7:00 – 8:00 pm. Come find out about our Together We Can capital campaign to build a new Youth Center. Take a tour, find the answers to [...]

The Williamstown Youth Center will sponsor a “Spring Fling” (formerly known as The Snowball) on May 8, 2010 at The Orchards. Don’t miss out on the fun!  Entertainment provided by “Trophy Husbands & Weapons of Mass Seduction” and will be Emceed by Comedian Eric Auld.  Tickets can purchased at the Youth Center, Wild Oats or [...]

Wednesday April 7, 2010
North Adams Transcript
WILLIAMSTOWN — Three months after the Williamstown Youth Center began its capital campaign to raise money for a new facility, it’s halfway to its goal.
Executive Director David A. Rempell said Tuesday, the private, nonprofit organization has raised $1.75 million toward its $3.5 million project to build [...]

By Meghan Foley, North Adams Transcript
October 1, 2009
WILLIAMSTOWN — While the concept of a youth center was unanimously supported by the about 45 people attending a public hearing Wednesday night, locating it on the elementary school grounds wasn’t.
Some residents living in the area of the elementary school at 115 Church St. questioned the effect adding [...]