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Williamstown Fin Comm, Select Board Talk Need to Grow Tax BaseBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:06AM / Monday, January 29, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Residents carry a higher tax burden than people in surrounding towns, and the problem will only get worse unless the town sees more development. That was the message from the chair of the Finance Committee during her panel's joint meeting with the Select Board last week. Melissa Cragg framed her remarks with a five-page memo she wrote outlining the current conditions for Williamstown taxpayers. The main takeaways: Williamstown's property tax burden per residence ranks in the top third in the commonwealth and second out of 32 communities in Berkshire County. And the town's per capita spending per resident (removing its 2,000 0 Comments
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Roughley, Williams Men's Basketball Win at Bates| 08:35PM / Saturday, January 27, 2024 | |
LEWISTON, Maine -- Dalton's Brandon Roughley scored 19 points, and the Williams College men's basketball team outscored Bates, 50-28, in the second half en route to an 84-69 win on Saturday. Roughley shot 8-for-12 from the floor and passed out five assists in the win. Nate Karren led Williams with 21 points and 10 assists. Williams (16-5, 6-1 NESCAC) hosts Trinity on Friday. Women's Basketball WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- Elsa Daulerio scored 22 points to lead Bates to an 86-70 win over Williams. Arianna Gerig scored 24 points, and Tatum Leuenberger had 15 points and nine rebounds for Williams (9-12, 1-6), which goes to Trinity on 0 Comments
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Williamstown Community Preservation Committee Advances Funding RequestsBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
07:16AM / Saturday, January 27, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Community Preservation Committee on Wednesday caught some breaks, cut some deals and found a way to fully or partially fund all of the applications the town received for Community Preservation Act funds for fiscal 2025. Going into Wednesday, it looked like there was no way the committee would be able to satisfy all of its applicants. And, while one entity walked away with a little less than 60 percent of its original ask and another got 78 percent, the remaining three parties have a chance to receive exactly what they asked for when the committee forwards its funding recommendations to May's annual town meeting. The first break the CPC 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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