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Winter Weather Advisory for Northern Berkshire; Snow on the Way

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Friday morning's cold and rainy weather is expected to give way to the first significant snow of the season later in the day. 
 
The region could get 2 to 6 inches with up to 10 inches in the higher elevations. Rate of snowfall could reach up to an inch an hour late in the afternoon and this evening. 
 
Or, we could just get slushy rain. 
 
The National Weather Service in Albany, N.Y., has issued a winter weather advisory for eastern Rensselaer County in New York, Northern Berkshire until 7 a.m. on Saturday. A winter storm warning has been issued for much of Southern Vermont.
 
Drivers are urged to use caution — it seems takes us at least one snowstorm to remember how to drive in the winter. 
 
Greylock Snow Day notes that temperatures will be dropping throughout the day and that will means "heavy slushy snow" in the valley.
 
The cold front pushing over the region beginning earlier this week is expected to continue through the weekend with temperatures 10 to 20 degrees below normal. 
 
A second storm system could bring another round of snow overnight Sunday into Monday morning that could yield a slippery morning commute.
 
Accuweather says an Alberta clipper is pushing frigid air our way and bringing snow across much of the country's northern tier. It will reach New England by Sunday but snowfall should be only 1 to 3 inches. 
 
"Disturbances remain active over the northern Pacific, and these will move inland over western Canada. These storms are referred to as Alberta clippers as they sometimes originate from the Canadian province of Alberta and tend to move swiftly along in the southward dip of the jet stream around the Great Lakes and Northeast," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski explained.
 

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Clarksburg FinCom, Select Board Agree on $1.9M Town Operating Budget

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff
CLARKSBURG, Mass. — The town is looking at an operating budget of $1,859,413 for fiscal 2025, down a percent from this year largely because of debt falling off.
 
Town officials are projecting a total budget at about $5.1 million, however, the School Committee is not expected to approve a school budget for two more weeks so no final number has been determined.
 
Town officials said they've asked the school budget to come in at a 2 percent increase. Finance Committee member Carla Fosser asked what would happen if it was more than that. 
 
"Then we would need to make cuts," said Town Administrator Carl McKinney, adding, "I'm a product of that school. But at the same time, we have a town to run to and, you know, we're facing uncertain weather events. And our culverts are old, the roads are falling apart. ... ." 
 
The assessment to McCann Technical School is $363,220, down about $20,000 from this year.
 
The major increases on the town side are step and cost-of-living raises for employees (with the exception of the town clerk at her request), the addition of a highway laborer, an increase in hours from 16 to 24 for the town accountant, and insurance and benefits that are about $70,000. There is a slight increase for employee training and supplies such as postage.
 
Select Board Chair Robert Norcross at Wednesday's joint meeting with the Finance Committee, said the town's employees are hard-working and that wages aren't keeping up with inflaction.
 
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