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Chopsticks has been given the go-ahead to reopen after being closed to address building issues.
Updated December 02, 2016 05:48PM

Williamstown's Chopsticks Restaurant Reopens

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — After a six-week closure to address building code issues, a Main Street Chinese restaurant has been cleared to reopen, Town Hall reported Friday morning.
 
Town Manager Jason Hoch shared the happy news that Chopsticks restaurant was given the go-ahead to begin serving customers at any time after it was reinspected on Thursday and Friday.
 
In mid-October, the town ordered the restaurant's closure until it addressed several issues, including its fire alarm and fire suppression system.
 
At no point did the closure involve the town's health inspector or any food safety issues, Hoch said in October.
 
The restaurant was serving patrons by the dinner hour on Friday. 

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Williamstown Select Board Awards ARPA Funds to Remedy Hall

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board on Monday allocated $20,000 in COVID-19-era relief funds to help a non-profit born of the pandemic era that seeks to provide relief to residents in need.
 
On a unanimous vote, the board voted to grant the American Rescue Plan Act money to support Remedy Hall, a resource center that provides "basic life necessities" and emotional support to "individuals and families experiencing great hardship."
 
The board of the non-profit approached the Select Board with a request for $12,000 in ARPA Funds to help cover some of the relief agency's startup costs, including the purchase of a vehicle to pick up donations and deliver items to clients, storage rental space and insurance.
 
The board estimates that the cost of operating Remedy Hall in its second year — including some one-time expenses — at just north of $31,500. But as board members explained on Monday night, some sources of funding are not available to Remedy Hall now but will be in the future.
 
"With the [Williamstown] Community Chest, you have to be in existence four or five years before you can qualify for funding," Carolyn Greene told the Select Board. "The same goes for state agencies that would typically be the ones to fund social service agencies.
 
"ARPA made sense because [Remedy Hall] is very much post-COVID in terms of the needs of the town becoming more evident."
 
In a seven-page letter to the town requesting the funds, the Remedy Hall board wrote that, "need is ubiquitous and we are unveiling that truth daily."
 
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