Open Forum On Environmental Aspects of Williamstown Fire Station Project

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Fire Station ProjectTo Be Held Nov. 9

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. An open forum on the environmental aspects of the proposed new Williamstown Fire Station will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 9, at 6:00 p.m. at the Williamstown Youth Center on School Street in Williamstown.

All residents are invited to attend this interactive event, which is co-sponsored by the Williamstown Fire District's Building Committee and the town's CO2 Lowering (COOL) Committee.

The station proposal is the first public capital project since Williamstown passed a resolution at its June 2021 Town Meeting to pursue a net-zero greenhouse gas remissions goal.

The station is designed to meet that goal. The Nov. 9 forum will discuss details of the green design and of proposed stormwater management at the site, which is on Main Street next to the Aubuchon store, and will seek input from participants on both. Present for the discussion will be members of the COOL and Building Committees, Chris Wante (associate principal of the architecture and design firm EDM), Chris Schaffer (principal of The Green Engineer), and

Charlie LaBatt (senior engineer of Guntlow & Associates).

The session will be recorded by WilliNet for later broadcast on tv channel 1303 and streaming on ROKU, AppleTV, and Amazon FireTV.

More information on the project is available at www.williamstownfiredept.org/newbuildinginfo

To proceed, funding for the new station will need to be affirmed by a two-thirds majority of the Williamstown registered voters in attendance at a district special meeting that is expected to be called sometime early in the coming calendar year.

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Williamstown Board Hears Concerns About 'Hometown Heroes' Banners

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
05:32AM / Wednesday, September 16, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Kurt Durocher told the Williamstown Select Board that he had received nothing but positive feedback from the North County communities where he proposed participation in the Hometown Heroes banner program.

Then Williamstown residents started to weigh in.

Durocher was before the board Monday evening to seek its blessing to put banners recognizing living and deceased military veterans on utility poles in Williamstown, an initiative that has been embraced in all but one of the other municipalities in the district where he serves as Veterans' Service Officer.

"The only negative I've had right now, and it's not really negative, [the Town of ] Florida doesn't want banners to go on Route 2, the Mohawk Trail, for safety reasons, understandably," Durocher said. "So we're trying to figure out an alternate way to make that work in Florida."

By and large, though, the reception to the program has been encouraging, Durocher said.

"I'll use Adams as an example," he said. "They've had a program for many, many years, but it's only for [military personnel] killed in action. Now that I've been allowed to take over that program … there's been a huge outpouring of support, because now we get living veterans on the poles as well.

"The only negative I've had is certain people want their banners in certain locations. So what we did in North Adams is we just did a random draw. I can't please everybody. I've got people who want a banner in a certain location, but three other people want that same location.It was a straight random draw for them."

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