A crew from Maxymillian Technologies of Pittsfield is reworking the Five Corners intersection in South Williamstown.

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A busy year of roadwork and construction continues to transform the Village Beautiful.

 

Spring and summer saw the completion of the expansion and renovation project at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, the end of Williams College's Stetson-Sawyer Library project, the erection of new grandstands and turf fields at Weston Field, and the resurfacing of portions of Main Street (Route 2), North Street and Simonds Road (Route 7).

 

On Monday, Adams Trucking began work on the $222,000 installation of a road to the planned senior housing development project, Highland Woods, at the end of Southworth Street and next to the current Proprietor's Field senior apartments.

 

On Thursday, a crew from Maxymillion Technologies, Inc., began work on the Five Corners intersection in South Williamstown. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation is reorienting the intersection to provide better sightlines for drivers entering the through highway (U.S. 7) from Route 43 — Green River Road to the east and Hancock Road to the west.

 

The reorientation is meant to increase safety at the intersection and was prompted by a fatal accident at the junction late this summer.

 

The Five Corners project is expected to take a couple of weeks.

 

And any day now, Delsignore Blacktop Paving of Troy, N.Y., will begin a $451,500 resurfacing project on the the town's portions of Routes 2 and 7 (North Street, Main Street and Cold Spring Road). That work is expected to be completed by Oct. 31.

 

Meanwhile, the town continues to remove infrastructure at the soon-to-be-closed Spruces Mobile Home Park, and the Boston-based developer of the Cable Mills apartment project on Water Street — at last word — hopes to begin work on that long-awaited project before the end of the year.