Clark Art Concert By Malik Abdul-Rahmaan and DJ REC

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute presents an addition to its Music on the Moltz Terrace concert series with performances by Malik Abdul-Rahmaan and DJ REC on Sunday, Sept. 29. 
 
The free concert takes place on the Lunder Center at Stone Hill's Moltz Terrace at 5 pm.
 
Malik Abdul-Rahmaan, a music producer and prolific record collector, has collaborated with artists such as Ghostface Killah, Pink Siifu, and Oddisee. A veteran of the New York City beat scene and a key figure in Japan's hip-hop movement, he created the ethnomusicological series Field Research, available via Paxico Records.
 
DJ REC opens. Carlos REC McBride, a Northampton resident, works in community care and merges art with social engagement to address healing and injustice, rejecting the wilderness while simultaneously exploring our resilience against inevitable endings.
 
Free. For accessibility concerns, call 413 458 0524. Rain moves the performance to the auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. 

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Williamstown Government Presents Communication Plan

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Williamstown is working to improve communications with residents.
 
The town manager told the Select Board last week that the town obtained a Community Compact Best Practices grant from the state's Division of Local Services to fund a consultant from the University of Massachusetts at Boston's Collins Center for Public Management to develop a communications strategy.
 
Improved communications is a growing concern for small towns like Williamstown, Town Manager Robert Menicocci told the board.
 
"The world has changed with social media," Menicocci said. "The expectations of what a community communicates to its citizens — the game has been upped.
 
"I think this was a new area for government and many communities are looking at a need to staff up to address communications, where, in the past, maybe a big city would have a communications director. Now that has trickled down to almost all small communities."
 
To that end, the town has completely revamped its website and hired its first communications director — both steps that were included in the November 2025 Collins Center report, "Roadmap for Inclusive and Accessible Municipal Communications in Williamstown, Mass."
 
Brianna Sunryd, a public services manager at the Collins Center, presented her group's findings to the Select Board.
 
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