Clark Art, Morgan Library, the Mount Present Discussion on Belle Da Costa Greene

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday, April 13 at 2 pm, the Clark Art Institute, the Morgan Library and Museum, and The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home, present "Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy," an examination of the inspiring life and career of the Morgan Library's first librarian and director Belle da Costa Greene. 
 
This free event takes place in the Clark's Manton Research Center auditorium.
 
Philip S. Palmer and Erica Ciallela, co-curators of the Morgan Library's centennial exhibition Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy, discuss their favorite objects in the show; examine Greene's life against the backdrop of national and institutional histories; and talk about the overlapping social circles of Greene, Bernard Berenson, and Edith Wharton. Five years in the making, this powerful and popular exhibition presents new research and is accompanied by a catalogue which will be available for purchase during a book signing after the event.
 
Free. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524. 

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PFAS Issue Splits Williamstown Select Board on Sewer Rate

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — About 20 residents and the majority of the Select Board on Monday sent a message to the Hoosac Water Quality District: importing sludge and converting it to compost is a bad deal and unethical.
 
In a rare break from past practice, a divided Select Board voted against recommending that town meeting OK the HWQD's proposed fiscal year 2026 sewer rate.
 
The district's plan to accept sludge from other communities and sell off the resulting compost through waste hauler Casella became an issue this winter when the HWQD presented its proposed FY26 sewer rate to the town's Finance Committee.
 
The district, a joint venture of Williamstown, North Adams and Clarksburg (not a voting member on the district board) has been talking for a couple of years about what will happen if and when the commonwealth bans the production of compost due to the presence of the so-called "forever chemicals," PFAS, which the International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified as a human carcinogen.
 
Despite that classification, not all states have banned the use of fertilizer derived from human biosolids, which are known to contain PFAS. And it is still legal in Massachusetts for wastewater treatment plants, like the HWQD plant in Williamstown, to operate composters and dispense compost containing PFAS within specified ranges.
 
District officials have warned the town for some time that once composting no longer is allowed, the cost to dispose biosolids — either through incineration or encapsulation in landfills — will skyrocket.
 
The HWQD's composting facility is one of the few in the region with excess capacity, and Casella has offered the district a deal under which the hauler will bring sludge (a semisolid byproduct of purifying water) to the Williamstown plant for composting and take resulting compost off-site for sale to users.
 
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