Wild Oats Market offers a delicious variety of hot foods

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Williamstown - The Wild Oats Community Market Prepared Foods Department now offers a delicious variety of hot foods for lunch and dinner, every day. The new Hot Bar features a menu that rotates daily to include customer favorites and various American regional and international cuisines. The Hot Bar is open daily from 11:30 am to 2 pm and from 4:30 pm to 7 pm. Stop in for a scrumptious, healthy lunch or dinner that you can eat in the market’s sunny café, or take with you.

On Friday nights, the Hot Bar will feature /Pizza by the Pound/ made from scratch by the Wild Oats deli and bakery. On week-ends, the Hot Bar will change its persona to /Mama’s Home Cookin’/ and offer earthy “comfort food” entrees. Hot Bar menus for the month will be available at Wild Oats and online at www.wildoats.coop

The addition of the Hot Bar comes on the heels of a recent expansion to the Wild Oats deli’s /Grab ‘n Go/ case. From deli staples to a variety of innovative new salads, our /Grab ‘n Go/ section features many healthy options for customers who enjoy the convenience of prepared foods. Salads such as roasted chickpea, carrot raisin, tofu and veggie, and Greek-style kale provide fresh, nutritious alternatives to more standard prepared meals, and our inviting café area gives customers the option to “eat in” or take their meal to go. Heat-and-serve entrees are another popular recent addition to the deli. And the Wild Oats bakery continues to grow, introducing new breads and pastries on a regular basis.

Award-winning Chef and Prepared Foods Manager Greg Roach brings 25 years of restaurant experience to Wild Oats, where he continues to develop an ever-changing and wide-ranging repertoire of entrees, salads, side dishes and sandwiches. Greg’s career includes stints in the kitchens of such luminaries as Wolfgang Puck, Jimmy Schmidt and Charlie Trotter. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the Culinary Institute of America, where he received the Roth Outstanding Student Performance Award and the President’s Scholarship. Before joining Wild Oats, Greg was the chef at Helen’s Place in Williamstown for four years.

Wild Oats Market is a member-owned, cooperative-based whole foods market that buys extensively from local and regional natural and organic food producers. One need not be a member to shop at Wild Oats, although membership offers several benefits. The market carries a wide selection of organic and naturally-made products, including: meats, eggs, dairy products, fruits, vegetables, breads, pastas, oils, cereals, juices and chocolate. Wild Oats Market also carries healthful supplements and body care products, as well as environmentally-friendly household supplies.
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Williamstown Planning Board Narrowing in on Subdivision Bylaw Changes

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Planning Board late last month discussed specific features of what it plans to pass as a new subdivision control bylaw this year.
 
The board long has discussed the complex set of regulations as being out of date and cumbersome to both potential developers and the board itself, which has needed to hear requests for waivers of outdated rules for the handful of residential subdivisions that have been proposed in town in recent years.
 
This spring, the town engaged consultants from Northampton's Dodson and Flinker Landscape Architecture and Planning to go through the existing bylaw, compare it to more contemporary regulations in other communities and help craft a revised bylaw.
 
Unlike the zoning bylaw, where amendments require approval of town meeting, the subdivision control bylaw is a creation of the Planning Board, which can make changes on its own after a public hearing process it hopes to complete this year.
 
At a special Planning Board meeting on May 26, Dillon Sussman of Dodson and Flinker and his colleagues walked the board through a dozen different decision points that the board must resolve — either by leaving the bylaw as is or making a change — and offered suggestions based on best practices.
 
All of the issues are technical and ranged from the fundamental, like how the bylaw will define types of subdivisions, to the highly specific, like what turning radii will be required in new streets that are constructed to serve planned developments.
 
One example of a topic that came up in the recent approval of a four-home subdivision off Summer Street is stormwater management.
 
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