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Williamstown Select Board Looks at Property Tax Relief IdeasBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:12AM / Tuesday, December 05, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board last week looked at a number of alternatives that could help the town make its property tax system a little more equitable. The issue of how property taxes disproportionately impact lower- and moderate-income homeowners came up in the summer, when newly-elected board member Stephanie Boyd suggested using the Residential Tax Exemption to make the town's main source of revenue a less regressive tax. The RTE, she argued, would shift more of the property tax levy onto owners of higher-valued homes and reduce the tax bills of those whose homes were assessed with a lower value. At the time, Andrew Hogeland argued that the RTE 0 Comments
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Williamstown Farms Awarded State Grants| 08:00AM / Monday, December 04, 2023 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Fairfield Dairy Farm and Bonnie Lea Farm both received Climate Smart Agriculture Program (CSAP) grants The Healey-Driscoll Administration announced $1.75 million in CSAP grants to 56 Massachusetts agricultural operations to implement management practices that will help them adapt to changing climate conditions and enhance their contributions to meeting the state's carbon reduction and climate change mitigation goals. "Our farmers see the devastating impacts of climate change every day. They are seizing this opportunity to adopt cutting edge technology and the latest climate science to help lower emissions and promote 0 Comments
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Williamstown Community Preschool Installs New Signage |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williamstown Community Preschool began sprucing up its new home by hiring local sign maker Lindsay Neathawk, owner of Neathawk Signs and Design, to create a 3D sign for the business.
Neathawk installed the sign late Monday afternoon that features multicolored hand prints from the children as the leaves of a tree poking out of the top. Underneath the name and address "a place to grow" is written. The children's hand prints were taken at the school and Neathawk then scanned them into her design programs to create the sign.
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