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Father's Day Activities At The Clark| 12:20PM / Wednesday, June 15, 2022 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute will host Father's Day activities on Sunday June 19. Art-making activities will be offered from 1 to 4 pm and they will be free with gallery admission. Special gallery guides are available for visitors at the Clark's Admissions desk to provide a self-guided walk-through of the galleries focused on fathers and father figures. After, visitors can make a card or bookmark to share with the special people in their lives. 0 Comments
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Williamstown Town Meeting Sends Zoning Bylaws Back to Planning BoardBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
12:45AM / Wednesday, June 15, 2022 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Maybe it is the venue. For the first time in nine years, Williamstown on Tuesday held a town meeting in the gymnasium at Mount Greylock Regional School. And just like in 2013, the hot-button issue was left unresolved. Back then, the question was whether to try to use a town-owned property off Stratton Road to build replacement housing for the homes lost at the Spruces Mobile Home Park due to Tropical Storm Irene. This time, it was a series of Planning Board proposals to modify the town's zoning bylaw to make it less restrictive and allow for more housing options in the town of 7,700. On Tuesday night, town meeting voted decisively 1 Comment
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Fire Officials Urge Residents to Leave Fireworks to the Professionals| 08:03AM / Tuesday, June 14, 2022 | |
 STOW, Mass. — Massachusetts State Fire Marshal Peter J. Ostroskey and State Police Colonel Christopher S. Mason are reminding residents to leave fireworks to the professionals this summer. Massachusetts fire departments reported more than 900 fires related to illegal fireworks between 2012 and 2021, officials said. In addition to the 43 fire service injuries and $2.1 million in damages attributed to these fires, Massachusetts medical facilities reported 31 severe burn injuries extending to 5 percent or more of the victims' bodies that were caused by illegal fireworks. "People are injured and property is lost to illegal fireworks every single year in 0 Comments
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Williamstown Comprehensive Plan Seeks Input on Project's TitleBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:29PM / Monday, June 13, 2022 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Voters will have a chance to weigh in on one issue before they even begin Tuesday's continued annual town meeting. The Comprehensive Plan Steering Committee will be collecting preferences for one of three names for the document it hopes to finish next year. After taking suggestions from residents, the committee narrowed the field to three finalists to name the plan, the successor to 2002's Master Plan. In the lobby at Mount Greylock Regional School Tuesday evening, residents will be able to pick from among three choices: "Envisioning Williamstown 2035," "Forward Together," and "Nourishing Justice, Equity and 0 Comments
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Letter: Zoning Proposals in Williamstown 'Not Ready for Prim Time'Letter to the Editor,
04:00PM / Monday, June 13, 2022 | |
 To the Editor:
A recent letter urged Williamstown residents to vote on all 10 proposed zoning articles – some with many subsections –at the Tuesday, June 14, town meeting at the high school gym. Is debating such a long list of complicated, highly technical articles at a town meeting really the best way to do zoning?
Is debating these articles now, with a new, complicated, confusing set of voting rules and percentages advisable – especially when town counsel issued one set of answers on the number of votes required to pass the former Planning Board’s recommendations and then later had to issue a revised set? Wow. I don't think so. Has the board done anything
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Letter: Why Williamstown's Zoning Proposals Should be TabledLetter to the Editor,
03:15PM / Monday, June 13, 2022 | |
 To the Editor:
I am writing in response to Peter Beck's letter of June 12, which argues that at town meeting, Williamstown residents should "discuss" the 10 articles the Planning Board has put forward and then vote them up or down.
Beck's suggestion makes sense only if you've never been to a town meeting. There simply isn't time for several hundred people to vote on the town budget and many other issues and then, after all that is done, discuss 10 separate zoning articles.
Had the Planning Board actually been interested in public discussion of its proposals, it would have held a series of meetings for this purpose months ago. Instead, it rushed the articles
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Letter: Williamstown Planning Board ProposalsLetter to the Editor,
02:30PM / Monday, June 13, 2022 | |
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An elected planning board member tells us that voting on the zoning proposals at town meeting will let the Planning Board know how we "feel." Any zoning changes passed at town meeting will be "forever," and virtually irreversible. Cite the research that indicates what effect these changes will have. Perhaps the Planning Board should have spent more time reaching out to all the town's citizenry long before any town meeting. These articles were approved by the Planning Board long before this unnecessarily delayed town meeting will be held. Better yet, place the items for a vote at the town election, even if as non-binding questions if legally
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Letter: Let Town Meeting Vote on the Zoning ProposalsLetter to the Editor,
07:00PM / Sunday, June 12, 2022 | |
 To the Editor:
The Planning Board split its work into 10 articles because they're not an interconnected, inseverable mass. They are all about allowing more homes to be built in Williamstown, but they do that work in different ways, in different parts of town. I'm a Planning Board member and a high school civics and history teacher, and I love how civic-minded and participatory this town is. I'm looking forward to us discussing and then voting on each article at town meeting. I hope we don't stifle that debate by demanding that whole unrelated groups of these articles be "tabled" or otherwise made undebatable or delayed. Let's discuss them, let's vote on
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Mount Greylock Class of 2022 Awards & Scholarships| 07:10PM / Saturday, June 11, 2022 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The following awards and scholarships were presented to the Mount Greylock Regional School class of 2022 at class night on June 9. National Honor Society: Zoe Armet, Catherine McAllister, Henry Art, Sophia Mele, Edward Brannan, Livia Morales, William Broadwell, Teague Murphy, Jillian Bump, Derek Paris, Jack Catelotti, Emma Sandstrom, Cayden Conry, Alayna Schwarzer, Takiera Darrow, Mackenzie Sheehy, Maisie Dufour, Christian Sullivan, Diego Galvez, Katherine Swann, Ryan Goss, Alexis Toomey, Jonah Hane, Rona Wang, Luca Hirsch, Anthony Welch, Rosario Larios-Sontay, Malina Woodbury Mary Dempsey Memorial Scholarship: Edward Brannan Paul O. 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock Class of 2022 Urged to Know Themselves By Tammy Daniels, iBerkshires Staff
03:55PM / Saturday, June 11, 2022 | |
The class was told they were a resilient group who'd overcome plenty of obstacles during the pandemic. See more photos here. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional School class of 2022 had to overcome more than a few obstacles on their way to graduation on Saturday. Class President Henry Art said it was a "singular example of the resiliency" the cohort of 73 had shown particularly through the last three years. "High school itself is a challenging environment in many different ways for many different people — academically, socially, logistically. But adding in the pandemic on top of that created an obstacle which 0 Comments
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Mount Greylock Announces Student Speakers for Class of 2022| 04:06PM / Thursday, June 09, 2022 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Alayna M. Schwarzer and Anthony J. Welch are the student speakers selected to address the Mount Greylock Regional High School class of 2022 at graduation exercises on Saturday, June 11, at 11 a.m. in the school gymnasium. Respected and highly regarded by her peers, Schwarzer was chosen by her classmates to speak. She is respected and highly regarded by her peers and considered welcoming and outgoing. She is well-known to the senior class for her thoughtful and kind ways. Similarly, her staunch support and advocacy to build empathy and work to end bias and hate is valued and admired. Academically talented and curious, Schwarzer has 35 Comments
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