image description — This home on Bulkley Street dates to the 1830s.

Friday Front Porch Feature: A Charming Home For You and Guests

By Breanna SteeleiBerkshires Staff
05:14PM / Friday, October 31, 2025Print Story | Email Story

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Are you looking for a charming, single-family farmhouse home in the Village Beautiful? Then this is the house for you.

Our Friday Front Porch is a weekly feature spotlighting attractive homes for sale in Berkshire County. This week, we are showcasing 1 Bulkley St.

This 1830, three-bedroom, three-bathroom home is 1,779 square feet on 1.40 acres. The asking price is $629,000.

The house comes with kitchen appliances like a built in electric oven, freezer, dishwasher, cooktop, and more. It features wide-plank floors, custom cabinets, a living room fireplace, first-floor bedroom suite and a patio with pergola. There's also a detached two-car garage and a 400-square-foot detached studio apartment just a short walk from the main house perfect for guests or renters.

We spoke to the listers Gintare Everett and Becky Polumbo with Alton and Westall Real Estate Agency LLC.

What do you think makes this property stand out in the current market?

Bulkley Street is one of the most desirable neighborhoods in town.

What was your first impression when you walked into the home?

How charming and clearly loved this home has been.

Do you know any unique stories about the home or its history?

It was one of three parcels purchased by Robert Noble in 1843. All the town's property tax records were destroyed by fire in 1859, making it difficult to determine the date of a house being built on that site in the years previous to the fire.

What kind of buyer do you see this home being perfect for?

The buyer for 1 Bulkley St. will have a taste for charming older homes and the character that they bring.

Are there any unique or custom elements?

The property is bordered by Hemlock Brook, the grounds are beautiful, it is a magical setting.

Are there any recent renovations or standout design features?

There is a studio apartment that has been fully renovated to be utilized however the new owners imagine it. A rental apartment, office, studio, guest space .... endless possibilities.

What would you say to a buyer trying to imagine their life in this space?

Welcoming spaces, a peaceful brook, and a cozy fireplace make this home a place you'll love coming back to every day.

You can find out more about this house on its listing here.

*Front Porch Feature brings you an exclusive to some of the houses listed on our real estate page every week. Here we take a bit of a deeper dive into a certain house for sale and ask questions so you don't have to.

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Letter: Incomplete Picture from Greylock School Committee

Letter to the Editor06:30PM / Wednesday, October 28, 2026

To the Editor:

At the October Mount Greylock School Committee meeting, there was much celebration over the student growth percentiles (SGP) from last year's MCAS test data (Spring 2026). Growth is worth celebrating. But I worry the meeting, and the coverage of it, left families and our community with an incomplete picture of how our students are doing in math.

"Growth" sounds like it means scores went up, but that isn’t quite what SGP measures. SGP compares each student to students in the state who scored about the same the year before, then ranks how they did this year against that group. If a whole group of similar students decreases, the student who decreases the least can still earn a high growth percentile. A strong SGP tells us our students did better than their peers who scored similarly the year before. It doesn't tell us whether they are at grade level.

For example, the current 6th grade class at Williamstown Elementary School (WES) has decreased in their grade-level math proficiency every year since their 3rd grade MCAS. In 2024, 64 percent of the class was meeting expectations; in 2025 48 percent were at grade level, and in 2026 only 33 percent of their class met grade-level expectations. Our current WES 5th grade class follows a similar trend, with 48 percent meeting grade-level math expectations last year vs 56 percent meeting expectations in 2025 when they were in 3rd grade.

Not every class follows this pattern; our current 7th graders gained to 62 percent last year. But seeing entire classes decrease is something that deserves our attention.

Growth comparisons across the state provide useful information, but they do not tell the complete story. We also need to look at where our students are in terms of grade-level proficiency and how those numbers are changing from year to year within the Mt. Greylock school district. This will be our first year with the math interventionist role filled at WES and our second year with the new i-Ready curriculum.

As we watch whether these changes are working, I hope the School Committee will discuss proficiency alongside growth in its public meetings, so our community can see the full picture. Growth matters, but it isn’t enough if fewer of our kids are reaching grade level each year.

Sincerely,

Jenna Hasenkampf
Williamstown, Mass.

Hasenkampf is a parent of WES students in Grades 2 and 4.

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