Questions Sought for Williamstown Candidate Forums

Staff Reports11:13AM / Friday, April 22, 2022Print Story | Email Story

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Residents are encouraged to submit questions for a pair of candidate forums in Williamstown on Tuesday.

The Williamstown chapter of the League of Women Voters is hosting the forums for candidates running for two seats on the Select Board and one seat on the Planning Board. League member Jennifer Howlett will be the moderator.

The forums will be held starting at 4 p.m. at Town Hall and will be taped by the town's community access television station, Willinet. The public is invited to attend in person.

Candidates for the Planning Board will appear from 4-6 p.m., followed immediately by the candidates for the Select Board. Candidates will make opening and closing statements, and members of the audience will have the opportunity to ask questions.

The candidates planning to attend are: for Planning Board, Carin DeMayo-Wall and Kenneth Kuttner; and for Select Board, Bilal Ansari, Randall Fippinger and Jane Patton.

Either Kuttner or DeMayo-Wall will be elected on May 10 for a five-year seat on the Planning Board.

There are two seats on the ballot for the Select Board. Incumbent Patton is running for another three-year term. The top two vote-getters among the three candidates on the ballot will be elected to the board.

All questions submitted for Tuesday evening's forums should be addressed to all of the candidates running for a particular office.

Questions can be emailed to Mary Lovvorn at zrobi@hotmail.com.

The League of Women Voters is tentatively planning an April 29 forum via Zoom for the five candidates running for four three-year seats on the Milne Public Library Board of Trustees.

Incumbents Michael Manary, Bridget Spann and Timothy Cherubini are on the ballot along with Robin Lenz and Hale Polebaum-Freeman.

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Williamstown, Five Other County Towns Receive Seasonal Community Grants

Staff Reports11:14AM / Wednesday, October 21, 2026

BOSTON, Mass. — Five months after Williamstown's town meeting opted into the commonwealth's Seasonal Communities program, the town has received its first grant from the state under the program.

Gov. Maura Healey Tuesday announced nearly $2 million in Seasonal Community Grants to help all 24 municipalities in the program statewide.

The funding helps communities advance housing projects with the potential to support 594 year-round homes, including affordable housing developments, infrastructure improvements and planning efforts that will help unlock future housing opportunities.

"From the Berkshires to Cape Cod and the Islands, our seasonal communities are an important part of what makes Massachusetts special," Healey in a news release. "But we know these communities face unique challenges, especially when it comes to housing for the people who live and work there year-round. That's why we created the Seasonal Communities designation and are backing it up with funding to help local leaders build more homes, support their workforce and keep their communities strong for generations to come."

That list of awardees includes six Berkshire County towns:

• Egremont — $60,687 to support septic and well construction for Phase II of Town Hall Housing, adding affordable housing units (20 units).

• Great Barrington — $84,731 to conduct a housing needs study, develop a Housing Production Plan and support the design and engineering of roadway and streetscape improvements near Reed Street and Main Street.

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