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Letter: Electronic Voting at Town MeetingLetter to the Editor,
02:00PM / Friday, May 12, 2023 | |
 To the editor:
This year, for the first time in Williamstown, we're proposing the town use electronic voting for town meeting.
At the start of the meeting, I will move to use electronic voting (a version of secret ballot) for the first 15 warrant articles. Those warrant articles are financial in nature and traditionally have passed almost unanimously without much debate. We will use those warrant articles to get people comfortable with the operation of the electronic voting devices. (We have some pre-meeting test questions set up for training, too. It's a simple device to use.)
After Article 15, I will move to consider Article 27 out of order to see if town meeting will agree to
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Dog Leash Bylaw Among Issues Before Williamstown Town MeetingBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:26AM / Friday, May 12, 2023 | |
Select Board member Randal Fippinger says dog owners aren't following the rules and that's keeping some residents from enjoying some of the town's recreational areas. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Randal Fippinger does not want to see a dog fight on the floor of the annual town meeting. Fippinger authored a warrant article that would require dogs to be kept on leash unless they are on the property of the dog's owner or in an "area designated off-leash for dogs." The measure would strike the current language in the town's bylaw, which indicates that "voice control" is an acceptable means for controlling dogs in public 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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