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A fence was put up around the old Williams Inn on Field Park in preparation for demolition later this summer.

Old Williams Inn Slated for Demolition This Summer

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Williams College plans to begin demolition of the old Williams Inn as early as the beginning of August, a school spokesperson said on Monday.
 
Last Thursday, the college installed chain-link fence around the perimeter of the building site at the junction of Routes 2 and 7.
 
Monday morning, Williams Director of Media Relations Greg Shook said the fencing was installed to allow hazardous materials abatement to begin inside the former inn built in 1974 on college land. The college purchased the building and business from the Faulkners in 2014. 
 
That abatement is scheduled to wrap up at the end of July with demolition to follow "soon after," Shook wrote in reply to an email seeking an update.
 
"Then [the college will] prepare the grounds (grass, seeds, etc.) in late September," Shook wrote. "We're still considering how the site may be used, and no plans have been made yet."
 
Last summer, the college opened the new Williams Inn at the bottom of Spring Street.

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Teacher of the Month: Shawn Burdick

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff

Teaching has always been a goal of Shawn Burdick but he spent years working on NASA projects before landing back at his alma mater Mount Greylock. 
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Mount Greylock Regional School physics teacher Shawn Burdick has been selected for the September Teacher of the Month. 
 
The Teacher of the Month series runs for the next eight months in partnership with Berkshire Community College.
 
Burdick has been working as a teacher for 25 years but his path to this career wasn't a straight line. He worked in the physics research field for a number of years prior to becoming a teacher. 
 
He studied physics at Williams College and moved on to get a doctorate degree in physics from Boston University. 
 
But his inclination for education surfaced during his experience as a graduate student teaching fellow when he won the Best Teaching Fellow Award. 
 
Following graduate school, he was offered a position as an assistant professor but decided to accept a job as an astrophysics researcher and consulted on rockets for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
 
He first worked with the consulting firm General Research Corp. but later his team moved to a smaller company called Frontier Technology Inc. 
 
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