Williams College Celebrates Staff Members on Annual Appreciation Day

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.— Williams College will host its annual Appreciation Day, which honors staff members who have reached milestones in their service to the college, on Tuesday, May 5.

The celebration includes a luncheon for employees completing their fifth, 10th, 15th or 20th year of service and a dinner for employees celebrating their 25th, 30th, 35th and 40th year of service, as well as those who are newly retired. The day is an opportunity for community members to offer thanks to the staff whose contributions uphold the college’s functionality and excellence.

This year’s retires are Bob Bernier, Linda Blake, Bob Bleau, Don Clark, Dick Cummings, Tom Mahar, Janice McKay, Bea Miles, Rob Seney, Dinny Taylor, Alice Wilson, Judith Win, Bob Volz, and Rosalie Tworig.

Jim Butler and Mimi Roy are celebrating 40 years at the college, while Bob Bleau, C. J. Gillig, Susan Landry, Jessy Park, Barb Pietras, Dennis Richard, Terry Waryjasz, and Kris Williams are celebrating 35 years.

Celebrating their 30th year of service are Pat Acosta, Nancy Bellows, Abby Bienkowski, Linda Blake, Cheryl Brewer, Crystal Brooks, Nancy Bryant, Marilyn Cole Dostie, Jim Menard, Joe Moran, Dick Nesbitt, Gail Ouellette, Bette Phelps, Tha Poeuk, Brian Quinn, and Paul Richard.


Celebrating 25 years at the college are Pete Armstrong, Marissa Barschdorf, Keith Blanchard, Sue Clairmont, Robin Coody, Cyndi Haley, Karen Marchegiani, Laura McKeon, Bev Sylvester, Val Turner, Helena Warburg, and Tammy Wright.

Celebrating 20 years at the college are Mary Bailey, Tom Bearup, Marilynne Beaulieu, Tom Bona, Lisa Cahill, Jane Canova, Jean Caprari, Angie Copeland, Ashley Frost, Sharon Marceau, Hideyo Okamura, Chuck Paquette, Mellisa Roy, Bobbi Senecal, Brent Siciliano, Gregory Smith, Joe Sylvester, and Kim Tremblay.

Celebrating their 15th year of service are Janet Bartlett, Colleen Bethoney, Bob Briggs, Carleen Carmel, Mark Dingman, Judy Fraser, Todd Gould, Tamra Hjermstad, Dan Kolis, Gary Lohnes, Amy Lovett, Heather Main, John Manley, Susan Monroe, Besy Montoya Ochoa, Linda Moran, John Moresi, Todd Noyes, Norm Parker, Marsha Peters, Guy Randall, Phil Remillard, Kristan Renish, Lili Rice, Luis Rivera, Barbara Robertson, John Shea, Rick Spalding, Ted Stefanik, Judith Win, and Amy Wood.

Celebrating 10 years of service are Norm Bell, Emily Bourguignon, Pat Burton, Jerry Byers, Bruce Carnevale, Dan Cellana, Donna Cuzzone, Gayle Donohue, Gretchen Eliason, Joyce Foster, Darryl Frye, Joanna Gabler, Jonathan Gillig, Aaron Gordon, Amy Johns, Mark Kimball, Dan Levering, Paula Machado, Paul Moorman, Jason Moran, John Noble, Craig Piers, Marlene Rider, Carol Stein-Payne, Johnny Tetreault, and Marty Walden.

Celebrating five years at the college are Simone Anderson, Karima Barrow, Mark Bergeron, Krista Birch, Corissa Bryant, Ashley Cart, James Cart, Meg Conan, Stephanie Dunson, Adam Falk, Francis Fredette, Lucy Green, Lynna Jackson, Dawn Jamros, Megan Konieczny, James Lewis, John Malcolm, Jennifer Marlowe, Amy Merselis, Keith Noel, Sourena Parham, Samantha Patterson, Michele Rech, Carol Rydell, Emilce Salas, Emery Shriver, Michael Taylor, Deanna Traversa, and Christa Waryas.

 


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Williamstown Finance Committee Finalizes Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Proposal

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The tax bill of a median-priced single family home will go up by 8.45 percent in the year that begins July 1 under a spending plan approved by the Finance Committee on Wednesday night.
 
After more than a month of going through all proposed spending by the town and public schools and searching for places to trim the budget and adjust revenue estimates, the Fin Comm voted to send a series of fiscal articles to the May 19 annual town meeting for approval.
 
The panel also discussed how to appeal to town meeting members to reverse what Fin Comm members long have described as an anti-growth sentiment in town that keeps the tax base from expanding.
 
New growth in the tax base is generated by new construction or improvements to property that raise its value. A lack of new growth (the town projects 15 percent less revenue from new growth in fiscal year 2027 than it had in FY26) means that increased spending falls more heavily on current taxpayers.
 
The two largest spending articles on the draft warrant for the May meeting are the appropriations for general government spending and the assessment from the Mount Greylock Regional School District.
 
The former, which includes the Department of Public Works, the Williamstown Police and town hall staffing, is up by just 2.5 percent from the current fiscal year to FY27 — from $10.6 million to $10.9 million.
 
The latter, which pays for Williamstown Elementary School and the town's share of the middle-high school, is up 13.7 percent, from $14.8 million to $16.8 million.
 
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