B’shire Botanical Garden: Wanda Houston Band plays Mon. Aug. 28, 5:30-7:30pm, in Stockbridge.

Wanda Houston Band performs the final “Music in the Garden” series at the Berkshire Botanical Gardens. More info & tix here.

BBGarden partners with Berkshire Picnics to make picnicking easy for Music Mondays at the Garden! Book a picnic with Berkshire Picnics – picnic options range from a simple and delicious picnic basket meal or a full-service, luxury picnic setup for you and your family/friends. Book your picnic here.

FREE COMMUNITY EVENT: National Night Out at Spruces Park, 3:00-7:00pm, TUE AUGUST 1!

Bouncy Slide, Tractor Rides, Balloon Twister, MUSIC… FREE grilled hamburgers & hotdogs!  Firetrucks! Meet your public service folks: Police, Fire volunteers, EMS responders!!  Spruces Part is located at 60 Main St. Williamstown– turn in at the big, cement, white lions!!

Milne Library Presents: “The Wonderful World of Bats” w/ Jerry Schneider on Wed, Aug. 2, 1-3pm. Register now!

Sign up HERE! Jerry Schneider returns with a fun and interactive program about BATS & their importance to our world.  In the second half of the program kids can design and create their own bat t-shirt to take home! more INFO HERE.

(Shirts will be provided for the kids but if you have a favorite light-colored cotton t-shirt you’d like to use, that’s fine too.)

As always, many thanks to the Friends of the Milne Library for their ongoing support.

B’shire Botanical Garden “GROW SHOW” on Sat/Sun, August 12 & 13, 5 W. Stockbridge Rd, Stockbridge!

Floral designers & backyard gardeners are the celebrities at the Garden’s annual Grow Show on Aug. 12-13, where beautiful floral arrangements and the peak summer harvest are spotlighted in this upbeat, judged event featuring five design and nearly 80 horticulture classes on display in the Exhibition Hall.

Anyone can enter! Whether you bring a single bloom or enter every category, there is no charge to participate in the Grow Show!

The Grow Show is free with Garden admission.

Read more about the Horticulture Division!
Gardeners of all ages and experience levels are welcome to enter this blue-ribbon event!

Read more about the Floral Design Division!
Floral Design entries in this year’s Grow Show take delight in the natural world’s splendor while recognizing that beauty’s intrinsic value is its harmonization of form and purposefulness. Designers focus on guiding people to make more connections between the richness of flora and the critical role it plays in the sustainability and restoration of our environment and the human condition. Designers are asked to use sustainable design practices avoiding Oasis and using materials that can be reused or recycled.

— Click here for the Floral Design Division Entry Card.

— Click here for the Horticulture Division Entry Card.

The show times are Saturday, Aug. 12, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, Aug. 13, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Community Resource Fair at Paresky Center, Williams College- THU, AUGUST 31, 10am -1pm. Businesses & Organizations sign-up now!

If you would like to share your business or organization with the incoming Williams College new students and their families, please reserve a table. Community Resource Fair 2023 – Business Registration

Thursday, August 31, 10am-1pm
Paresky Center, Williams College