Letter: Bilal for Williamstown Select Board

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To the Editor:

I am writing to urge Williamstown voters to elect Bilal Ansari to the Williamstown Select Board on Tuesday, May 10. Dr. Ansari has dedicated himself to a life of service, to helping people resolve difficult situations. He listens intently and responds carefully with compassion. He appeals to our best nature. These are essential skills needed at this moment in our town.

Dr. Ansari does not believe that he alone has the solutions to all of the challenges facing our town. Instead, he wants to hear from those comfortable speaking up and also those who, until now, have not felt comfortable nor heard at all. He believes it will take a village to share concerns and work together to make Williamstown a better place for everyone to live and work and grow. But making that happen takes a special type of skilled leadership.

Bilal Ansari is the candidate blessed with that skilled leadership and a stake in our town's quality of life. He has deep roots in this town: his ancestors lived and worked here. He is committed to an approach based in kindness and inclusion. He is the candidate who can and will help us reach a new, inclusive and more equitable chapter in our town's history.

I ask for your vote on May 10 for Bilal Ansari for the Williamstown Select Board. Thank you.

 

Hugh L Guilderson, Ph.D.
Williamstown, Mass.

 

 

 


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Mount Greylock District Aims to Provide Healthier Foods

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A Mount Greylock Regional School District committee is working to ensure that the three public schools provide healthier food options for students and staff.
 
The co-chair of the district's Wellness Committee gave a report to the School Committee at its Thursday meeting, outlining the wellness group's priorities for the year ahead.
 
Joelle Brookner told the elected officials that a group of 16 people representing staff, district families, students from the middle-high school and the administration had met three times as of the School Committee's April 9 meeting.
 
Job one for the Wellness Committee has been to use tools from the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to look at the district's current policy, and her panel will be making recommendations to the School Committee's Policy and Governance Subcommittee for amendments to bring to the full committee in the near future.
 
At the same time, Brookner said the Wellness Committee asked its own members what their priorities are for improving the schools.
 
"We had a pretty good range of what people are interested in, and we asked people to rank the top three categories that need the most attention,"Brookner said. "Those were, in this order: school meal programming, nutrition and food system education and social and emotional climate and caregiver engagement.
 
"That's going to be the focus of our work this year."
 
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