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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Reminder to Lanesborough, Williamstown Voters: Mount Greylock School Committee a 'Write-In' Election

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
10:03AM / Friday, October 30, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Politicians and pundits in recent years have been preaching patience when it comes to getting election night results.

That usually means places like California, where vote-counting can be complicated or Michigan, where razor thin margins are anticipated.

Add Williamstown and Lanesborough to that list.

It is not a matter of pre-election polling suggesting particularly tight races; there is no such polling. Rather, it is a question of how voters will be making their selections in the race for the Mount Greylock Regional School District Committee.

None of the six candidates who qualified for four seats up for grabs on the panel appear on the ballots that have been mailed out, used in early voting or will be distributed at the polls on Nov. 3.

That means that all votes will be cast as write-ins, and that means it will take significantly longer for election workers to tally up votes in the local election once the polls close at 8 p.m. at Lanesborough Town Hall and Williamstown Elementary School.

As always, voters in both towns vote for all four seats on the ballot: two seats for Lanesborough residents and two for Williamstown residents in this year’s balloting.

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