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Williamstown's FY23 Tax Levy Hiked to Pay for WPD SettlementBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:07PM / Monday, July 18, 2022 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board and Finance Committee agreed last month to raise the fiscal 2023 tax levy by $270,000 to pay for an out-of-court settlement with a former sergeant in the Williamstown Police Department. The additional quarter million dollars to be raised through property taxes is over and above the appropriations approved by the annual town meeting last month. The decision was made at a meeting during which the two panels jointly agreed to several FY22 budget adjustments to cover costs arising from the fallout of an August 2020 whistleblower lawsuit filed by then Sgt. Scott McGowan. Taxpayers will foot the $270,000 bill through taxation in 1 Comment
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Mount Greylock, Lanesborough Hope to Use ARPA Funds for Boiler ReplacementBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires.com
05:57PM / Friday, July 15, 2022 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – The Mount Greylock School District is working with the Town of Lanesborough on a plan to replace a failing boiler at the elementary school using American Rescue Plan Act funds. Superintendent Jason McCandless Thursday told the School Committee that one of the two boilers original to the 20-year-old PreK-6 school “has had a system failure.” “Our boiler folks … said with the parts we could bring in, it’s unlikely they’ll form the efficient seal needed to have the boiler work efficiently, or perhaps work at all,” McCandless said at the committee’s July meeting. The good news is that Lanesborough 6 Comments
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Williamstown Summer Sundays Returns this WeekendCommunity submission,
02:02PM / Friday, July 15, 2022 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- The Williamstown Cultural District will hold the first of two Summer Sundays events on July 17 from 2 to 5 p.m. The event, which has appeared in various incarnations over the years, will, this time around, showcase local performers, artists and vendors this weekend and again on Sept. 18. The festival will be held on Spring Street, rain or shine with a full range of entertainment and activity, indoors and out. Highlights for July 17 include: ♦ Artist Jared Gelormino creating a sculpture onsite, using found objects, original ceramic pieces, paint and foam. At 4:30 p.m., he will present a “talk back” for any curious onlookers. This 9 Comments
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Williamstown Considering Land Conservation Request for Sweet Brook FarmBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
04:46AM / Wednesday, July 13, 2022 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A local family farm is asking the Select Board to let Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation preserve a tract that is integral to the farm operation. About 10 acres on Oblong Road in South Williamstown currently is under contract to be sold to a buyer interested in residential development on the parcel. But the acreage in question has, since the 1980s, been conserved under Chapter 61 of Massachusetts General Law, which allows landowners to pay a reduced property tax bill to the town. Before the current owner can sell the property for development, the town, by law, has the right of first refusal to buy the land at the negotiated price ($745,000) 1 Comment
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Williamstown Planning Board Discusses Work Plan for Year AheadBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
01:46PM / Saturday, July 09, 2022 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Planning Board last month discussed its projects for 2022-23 and which members of the five-person panel will tackle specific topics. Meeting for the first time since the annual town meeting voted to refer most of the board's proposed warrant articles back to committee, the planners decided that housing regulations again will be a priority for the year leading up to town meeting in April 2023. But it did not make any decisions on whether the specific proposals embodied in this spring's amendments will make their way back to the meeting for a vote. The board did authorize members Roger Lawrence and Kenneth Kuttner to explore the 0 Comments
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Motorcyclist Cited in Sunday Accident in WilliamstownBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
12:05PM / Thursday, July 07, 2022 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A Vermont motorcyclist was cited for following too closely after a colision with a car at the corner of Simonds Road and Sand Springs Road on Sunday, according to Williamstown Police. Richard Sargent of Sunderland, Vt., was traveling south on Simonds Road (Route 7) on a 2004 Kawasaki motorcycle when he rear-ended a 2014 Nissan driven by Nikita Noyes-Martel of Pownal, an accident report reads. Sargent was taken from the scene by Northern Berkshire EMS after receiving a serious leg injury, according to the report. Noyes-Martel walked away from the accident. Noyes-Martel also was driving on Simonds Road and was stopped waiting to make a left 0 Comments
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Images Cinema Offers Outdoor Film Series| 12:00PM / Thursday, July 07, 2022 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Images Cinema released its movie lineup for Family Flicks Under the Stars starting on July 10 for three consecutive Sundays. The series will kick off on Sunday, July 10 with “West Side Story" (2021). On Sunday, July 17 it will be screening “Raya And The Last Dragon.” They will conclude on Sunday, July 24 with “Summer Of Soul (… Or When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised).” Families can bring blankets, lawn chairs, and bug spray to Morgan Lawn, at the top of Spring Street starting at 8:15 for its Outdoor Film series. Concessions items will be available for sale onsite. In the event of 0 Comments
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Medical Matters Weekly Welcomes Leader of the Vermont State Parks| 02:54PM / Wednesday, July 06, 2022 | |
 BENNINGTON, Vt. — Nathan McKeen is the director of Vermont's State Parks and the next guest on Medical Matters Weekly. Viewers are invited to tune in at 12 p.m. on Wednesday, July 13, and learn about all of the wellness and other fun opportunities available through the parks system. The show is produced by Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC) with cooperation from Catamount Access Television (CAT-TV). Viewers can view on facebook.com/svmedicalcenter and facebook.com/CATTVBennington. The show is also available to view or download as a podcast on svhealthcare.org/medicalmatters. McKeen studied forestry at the University of Maine and has worked for 0 Comments
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HooRWA Opens New Trail Along Green River in WilliamstownBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
04:21AM / Wednesday, July 06, 2022 | |
Hoosic River Watershed Association Board member John Case leads Monday's ceremony. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Three years after receiving Community Preservation Act funds from town meeting, the Hoosic River Watershed Association on Monday officially opened a new hiking trail from Linear Park to Main Street along the Green River. And if three years seems like a long time to work on the half-mile trek, that is not even the half of it. "Based on research done by [Community Development Director] Andrew Groff at Town Hall, the completion of this today really marks the completion of a town goal that is 60 years old," HooRWA board member John Case told a crowd of 10 Comments
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Q&A: Menicocci Begins Service as Williamstown's Town ManagerBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
04:56AM / Tuesday, July 05, 2022 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Things were quiet in the corner office at Town Hall on Friday as Robert Menicocci settled into his first day on the job as the new town manager. But as a close observer of the town — first as an applicant and, since early April, as the town manager to be — Menicocci knows that the last two years have not always been a quiet time for town government. The national reckoning with institutional racism that came to the forefront in the summer of 2020 hit home in unique ways in this corner of North Berkshire, including the chain of events that led to the departure of the town's previous permanent town manager. Menicocci 19 Comments
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Williamstown Rural Lands Farm Visit| 12:07PM / Monday, July 04, 2022 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Williamstown Rural Lands (WRL) will tour and learn about micro-scale farming at Bigfoot Farm on Sunday, July 10, at 10 a.m. Learn how farmer Brian Cole produces a diversity of veggies using sustainable farming techniques. Now in his fifth year on one acre of leased farmland, Cole has made strides in learning what it takes to achieve economic success farming at a micro-scale. While touring his farm, attendees can ask questions. Cole will discuss soil management, crop sequencing, and pest and weed control using organic methods. Cole will share his experience as a tenant farmer and discuss what can be done to promote working rural 0 Comments
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