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 Affordable Housing Trust Hears Objections to Summer Street Proposal

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Neighbors concerned about a proposed subdivision off Summer Street last week raised the specter of a lawsuit against the town and/or Northern Berkshire Habitat for Humanity.
 
"If I'm not mistaken, I think this is kind of a new thing for Williamstown, an affordable housing subdivision of this size that's plunked down in the middle, or the midst of houses in a mature neighborhood," Summer Street resident Christopher Bolton told the Affordable Housing Trust board, reading from a prepared statement, last Wednesday. "I think all of us, the Trust, Habitat, the community, have a vested interest in giving this project the best chance of success that it can have. We all remember subdivisions that have been blocked by neighbors who have become frustrated with the developers and resorted to adversarial legal processes.
 
"But most of us in the neighborhood would welcome this at the right scale if the Trust and Northern Berkshire Habitat would communicate with us and compromise with us and try to address some of our concerns."
 
Bolton and other residents of the neighborhood were invited to speak to the board of the trust, which in 2015 purchased the Summer Street lot along with a parcel at the corner of Cole Avenue and Maple Street with the intent of developing new affordable housing on the vacant lots.
 
Currently, Northern Berkshire Habitat for Humanity, which built two homes at the Cole/Maple property, is developing plans to build up to five single-family homes on the 1.75-acre Summer Street lot. Earlier this month, many of the same would-be neighbors raised objections to the scale of the proposed subdivision and its impact on the neighborhood in front of the Planning Board.
 
The Affordable Housing Trust board heard many of the same arguments at its meeting. It also heard from some voices not heard at the Planning Board session.
 
And the trustees agreed that the developer needs to engage in a three-way conversation with the abutters and the trust, which still owns the land, to develop a plan that is more acceptable to all parties.
 
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