Nominations Sought For Williamstown Employee Award

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The League of Women Voters of Williamstown is seeking nominations for its annual Employee of the Year Award.

The League established the annual award beginning in 2001 as a way to show appreciation for the work required to keep the town running smoothly.

Nominees should be employees of the town of Williamstown who have provided outstanding service to the Williamstown community – duty above and beyond what is expected of them. This service can have been performed during the past year or in previous years. It can have been a single exceptional act or have been spread over several years.

All employees of the town of Williamstown are eligible. For example, this includes snowplow drivers, librarians, cemetery workers, police officers, town department heads, custodians, teachers, transfer station workers, fire fighters, the town manager – anyone on the town payroll.


Nomination forms are available at the Milne Library and at Town Hall, or nominations can be sent to the League of Women Voters of Williamstown, P.O. Box 392, Williamstown, by May 7. Nominations should include a description of the exceptional service provided and the name and telephone number or email address of the person submitting the nomination.

The name of winner will be announced on May 21 at the annual town meeting.

Past winners are Tim Kaiser, Rose Hamman, Betsy Reali, Mary Kennedy, Pat MacLeod, Chris Lemoine, Mindy Hackner, Paul Langlois, Brian O'Grady; Janet Saddler, Patti Patterson and, last year, the entire Department of Town Inspections.
 

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Williamstown Select Board Talks Policy on Plowing Private Ways

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board last week discussed a policy to guide decisions on whether to accept private ways for snow plowing by town personnel.
 
Actually, the town has an existing policy, and the Department of Public Works currently plows 10 private roads under that policy, which was enacted by the board in late 1980s.
 
"The document could be out there somewhere, but we can't find it," DPW Director Craig Clough told the board. "We found reference to it in the minutes [of meetings] and stuff like that, but there is no definitive, 'Here's your guideline.'
 
"It was time to create it."
 
The topic came to the fore in light of a request from the residents of the Sweet Farm Road subdivision off Henderson Road that the town accept their street as a public way.
 
That question, which the residents had hoped to bring to last May's annual town meeting, was put off until the May 2025 meeting at the earliest. In the meantime, the town discussed with the residents the possibility of the town assuming "winter maintenance" duties only until the full acceptance question is settled.
 
Among the private roads the town currently plows each winter are Danforth, Bryant and Porter Streets off Belden Street on the east side of town, Bingham Street off Main Street and Walnut Street off North Hoosac Road, to name a few.
 
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