Williamstown Repair Cafe Begins Sept. 24

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Repair Café, co-sponsored by the South Williamstown Community Association and Williamstown Rural Lands at Sheep Hill, 671 Cold Spring Road will begin Saturday, Sept. 24, running from 1 to 4 p.m.

The event allows people to bring broken items in order for them to be repaired. Volunteer "fixers" include people who can do small electrical repairs (vacuum cleaners, immersion blenders, lamps), wooden furniture repair (chairs, benches, frames), blade sharpening (knives, scissors, small tools), costume jewelry repairs (rhinestone replacement, new clasps), leather repairs, and our ever popular darners, knitters, and sewers.

The event will have two computer experts, refreshments, and is partnering with the BagShare Project to make reusable shopping bags.

Materials and grommet machines to make them will be provided. Repair Café is free, although donations are accepted.

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North County Biosolid Waste Costs Jumping Up in Fiscal Year 2027

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
05:53AM / Wednesday, March 11, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Sewage disposal fees for North Adams, Clarksburg and Williamstown residents are set to rise 17 percent in fiscal year 2027 because of the cost of compost disposal incurred by the Hoosac Water Quality District.

HWQD Chief Operator Bradley Furlon last week told the Williamstown Finance Committee that the district needs to add $260,000 to its FY27 budget for compost disposal.

It may be the leading edge of a cost increase that Furlon foretold in his presentation to the Fin Comm three years ago.

Driving the hike is the presence of polyfluoroalkyl substances, the co-called "forever chemicals" that have been linked to cancer, in human biowaste.

For more than four decades, the HWQD's Williamstown facility has produced compost from the sludge it removes from influent from the district's three member municipalities. For most of that time, it was able to sell the compost and generate a modest income.

Now, the district needs to pay haulers to take the compost off site.

"All of our compost is going to Ontario [N.Y.] to a municipal landfill," Furlon told the committee. "It's daily cover."

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