Clarksburg Lists Voter Precautions for Thursday Election

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CLARKSBURG, Mass. — The town election will be held on Thursday, June 11, from noon to 7 p.m. at the Clarksburg Senior Center, 712 West Cross Road.
 
This year's election will be taken with precautions because of COVID-19 and only four voters will be allowed inside the polling center at a time.
 
Voters should: 
  • Wear a mask or face covering over their noses and mouths.
  • Bring their own marking utensil (pen or pencil).
  • Refrain from coming to the polls if you are not feeling well or have a fever.
  • Observe 6-foot social distance. Inside floor is marked 6 feet in distance.
  • Wait in designated area to allow only one person at check-in, check-out tables and casting ballot
  • Enter from the front of the building and exit out the back of the building. 
There are no races on the ballot this year but there are four positions that have no candidates and will require write-in votes if anyone wants to run for them. 
 
On the ballot will be Karin V. Robert, who is seeking to return to the Select Board; also incumbents Laura D. Wood for School Committee, Linda J. Hurlbut for library trustee, and Joseph Bushika III for War Memorial trustee. 
 
Write-ins can be made for a five-year seat on the Planning Board and for Board of Health, moderator and tree warden. 
 
The town meeting will be held Wednesday, June 24, at 6:30 p.m. at a location to be announced.

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Pittsfield Community Development OKs Airport Project, Cannabis Amendment

By Brittany PolitoiBerkshires Staff

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Community Development Board has supported plans for a new hangar at the airport and a change to the cannabis ordinance.

Lyon Aviation, located in the Pittsfield Municipal Airport, plans to remove an existing "T" style hangar and replace it with a new, 22,000-square-foot hangar.  The existing one is said to be small and in poor condition while the new build will accommodate a variety of plane sizes including a larger passenger jet.

"There's no traffic impacts, there's no utilities to speak of," Robert Fournier of SK Design Group explained.

"I'll say that we did review this at length with the airport commission in the city council and this is the way we were instructed to proceed was filing this site plan review and special permit application."

The application states that the need for additional hangar space is "well documented" by Lyon, Airport Manager Daniel Shearer, and the airport's 2020 master plan. The plan predicts that 15 additional hangar spaces will be needed by 2039 and this project can accommodate up to 10 smaller planes or a single large aircraft.

Lyon Aviation was founded in 1982 as a fix-based operator that provided fuel, maintenance, hangar services, charter, and flight instruction.

This is not the only project at the Tamarack Road airport, as the City Council recently approved a $300,000 borrowing for the construction of a new taxi lane. This will cover the costs of an engineering phase and will be reduced by federal and state grant monies that have been awarded to the airport.

The local share required is $15,000, with 95 percent covered by the Federal Aviation Administration and the state Department of Transportation's Aeronautics division.

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