Williams Economics Professor receives regional Science Award

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Roger Bolton, the William Brough Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at Williams College has received the David Boyce Award for "service to the field of regional science." The David Boyce Award is given by the Council of the North American Regional Science Association (NARSC) to acknowledge the activity of a prominent figure in regional science and reward outstanding service contributions made to a regional science organization. The award recognizes Bolton's work as a book review editor of the Journal of Regional Science. Through his editorship, he promoted the multidisciplinary field of research by economists, geographers, historians, planners, and transportation analysts. Bolton is known for having turned part of the Journal of Regional Science into "the most stimulating review section in all the urban and regional journals world." He transformed review writing into an art, "reflecting his own intellectual curiosity, his broad knowledge, and his love for places and all matters urban and regional." The journal now publishes 60 or more reviews a year. Besides the Journal of Regional Science, Bolton has served on the editorial boards of the Canadian Journal of Regional Science, Growth and Change, and Annals of Regional Science. He was co-editor of the International Regional Science Review for five years, where he introduced special issues on the regional dimensions of Chinese economic reforms and on regional input-output analysis. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles, and the author or co-author of four books, including "Defense Purchases and Regional Growth." In 2002, he was a member of the National Research Council Committee that authored the book "Community and Quality of Life." Bolton joined the Williams faculty in 1966. His fields of interest include regional and urban economics, geography, history of economic thought, and the philosophy of Jurgen Habermas. His research focused on defense purchases and regional growth, as well as regional policy, with a concern for economic interpretations of place, and Arthur Latham Perry, a 19th -century Williams College economist. During his tenure at Williams, he was chair of the economics department, chair of the Committee on Environmental Studies, and first director of the Francis Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Williams College recently appointed him to coordinate its Self Study for College Accreditation. Bolton received his B.A. from Franklin and Marshall College and his doctorate from Harvard University. Bolton has served the community on the Williamstown Planning Board, Rural Lands Foundation, Hoosic River Watershed Association, and the Berkshire County Regional Planning Commission, from which he received its award for outstanding contribution to planning in 1988.
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Six Running for Four Seats on Mount Greylock School Committee

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Voters will have choices for all four Mount Greylock School Committee seats on the Nov. 3 ballot.
 
Three Lanesborough residents, including one incumbent, have submitted signed nomination papers for the two seats up for grabs for residents of the town.
 
In Williamstown, both incumbents and one newcomer have submitted papers for two of that town's four seats on the four-member committee.
 
Curtis Elfenbein returned papers to Lanesborough Town Hall by Tuesday's deadline to run for a four-year second term on the committee. He first joined the body in 2020 when he was chosen to fill the last two years of an unexpired term, and he was elected in his own right two years later.
 
He is joined on the ballot by newcomers Melissa Zuroff and Jodi Szczepaniak-Locke.
 
All three prospective Lanesborough candidates' nomination papers will be certified when Town Clerk Ruth Knysh returns from vacation on Aug. 3.
 
In Williamstown, all three candidates' nomination papers have been certified by Town Clerk Nicole Beverly.
 
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