Williamstown Community Chest Seeks Volunteer Award Nominations

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williamstown Community Chest is requesting nominations for its Volunteer of the Year Award, to be presented at the Chest’s 88th annual meeting in May.

As an organization that depends on volunteers to carry out its mission of raising and distributing funds to support local charitable organizations providing services to those in need, the Chest wishes to recognize the importance of volunteer efforts throughout the community.

Since 1985, the Community Chest has presented an annual award honoring a resident, or residents, of Williamstown for exceptional volunteer service.

The nomination process is open to the public and members of the community are invited to submit names of persons whose volunteer efforts have made this a better place in which to live and work. Nominations for the award should include the name of the proposed recipient and examples of his/her volunteer service with dates, if possible.  A contact name for additional information should also be included.



An online nomination form is available at www.williamstowncommunitychest.org/volunteer-of-the-year/. Nominations may
also be mailed to Selection Committee, Williamstown Community Chest, P.O. Box 204, Williamstown, MA 01267 or dropped off at the Community Chest office at 7 Denison Park Drive.  

The deadline for nominations is April 3. For more information please contact Executive Director Anne Singleton at
458-2443.


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Williamstown Planners OK Preliminary Habitat Plan

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Planning Board on Tuesday agreed in principle to most of the waivers sought by Northern Berkshire Habitat for Humanity to build five homes on a Summer Street parcel.
 
But the planners strongly encouraged the non-profit to continue discussions with neighbors to the would-be subdivision to resolve those residents' concerns about the plan.
 
The developer and the landowner, the town's Affordable Housing Trust, were before the board for the second time seeking an OK for the preliminary subdivision plan. The goal of the preliminary approval process is to allow developers to have a dialogue with the board and stakeholders to identify issues that may come up if and when NBHFH brings a formal subdivision proposal back to the Planning Board.
 
Habitat has identified 11 potential waivers from the town's subdivision bylaw that it would need to build five single-family homes and a short access road from Summer Street to the new quarter-acre lots on the 1.75-acre lot the trust purchased in 2015.
 
Most of the waivers were received positively by the planners in a series of non-binding votes.
 
One, a request for relief from the requirement for granite or concrete monuments at street intersections, was rejected outright on the advice of the town's public works directors.
 
Another, a request to use open drainage to manage stormwater, received what amounted to a conditional approval by the board. The planners noted DPW Director Craig Clough's comment that while open drainage, per se, is not an issue for his department, he advised that said rain gardens not be included in the right of way, which would transfer ownership and maintenance of said gardens to the town.
 
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