Greylock Youth Lacrosse Teams Win County Titles

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DALTON, Mass. -- The Greylock Youth Lacrosse fifth- and sixth-grade team won the Berkshire County Championship held on Saturday at Wahconah Regional High School.
 
The team went undefeated this spring in the two conference leagues it plays in, Berkshire County and the Tri-Mountain league. Saturday it defeated Pittsfield and Lee in county tournament.
 
The team includes: Joseph Boni, Jasper Bopp, Oskar Bopp, Kaden Bouchard, Jackie Brannan, Kaylie Bryan, Beatrice Garvey, Benjamin Gregorek, Eamon Hetherington, Gavin Hetherington, Jeffrey Johnson, Trey Lepicier, Aiden MacPherson,  Maxwell McAlister, Elias Robinson, Mason Schaeffer, Krish Sharma, Owen Taylor, Joey Tornabene and Mitchell Waynick.
 
The team was coached by Dave Waynick, Jeff Johnson, and John McAlister.
 
Seventh- and Eighth-Grade Team Unbeaten
 
The Greylock Youth Lacrosse seventh-and-eighth grade team also won the Berkshire County Championship after going undefeated in the Berkshire County and the Tri-Mountain league as well.
 
On Saturday, it defeated Lee and Dalton to end a perfect season.
 
The seventh- and eighth-grade team includes: Camden Abel, Liam Bradley, Will Broadwell,Colin Doyle, William Ellingwood, Michael Faulkner, Samuel Garvey, Nathan Haley, Seamus Hayes, Tate Kuster, Darren Pelletier, Ben Prescott,Patrick Ross, Pablo Santos, Trevor Sawyer,    Brandon Sills, Matthew Sorrell, Camden Taylor, Kyle Trottier, Malcolm Waynick, and Zach Wilson. 
 
The team was coached by Dave Waynick, Keenan Chenail, and Joe Kapas.
 
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Williamstown Community Preservation Panel Weighs Hike in Tax Surcharge

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Community Preservation Committee is considering whether to ask town meeting to increase the property tax surcharge that property owners currently pay under the provisions of the Community Preservation Act.
 
Members of the committee have argued that by raising the surcharge to the maximum allowed under the CPA, the town would be eligible for significantly more "matching" funds from the commonwealth to support CPA-eligible projects in community housing, historic preservation and open space and recreation.
 
When the town adopted the provisions of the CPA in 2002 and ever since, it set the surcharge at 2 percent of a property's tax with $100,000 of the property's valuation exempted.
 
For example, the median-priced single-family home in the current fiscal year has a value of $453,500 and a tax bill of $6,440, before factoring the assessment from the fire district, a separate taxing authority.
 
For the purposes of the CPA, that same median-priced home would be valued at $353,500, and its theoretical tax bill would be $5,020.
 
That home's CPA surcharge would be about $100 (2 percent of $5,020).
 
If the CPA surcharge was 3 percent in FY26, that median-priced home's surcharge would be about $151 (3 percent of $5,020).
 
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