MGRS Band to March in New Uniforms

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Mount Greylock Regional School's band will be marching this Memorial Day weekend in new matching polos provided by the MGRS Friends of the Arts. 
 
The Mount Greylock Marching Mounties will be sporting brand new matching black polos this year as they march local parades. A gift from the MGRS Friends of the Arts, the new shirts mark a return to MGRS tradition, where the matching shirts or uniforms were in use for years before the pandemic. Every band, orchestra and chorus student at MGRS, in middle and high school, will be issued a polo to wear during performances, including orchestra and chorus.
 
"We're very thankful that students have something that's comfortable and looks nice for all performances. It helps identify us as a community," said band director Jacqueline Vinette.
 
They will perform  Sunday, May 28, on Main Street in Hancock, at 11 a.m.; Sunday, May 28, on North Main Street in Lanesborough, at 2 p.m.; and Monday, May 29, on Spring Street in Williamstown, MA, at 11 a.m.
 
Memorial Day parades in Hancock, Lanesborough and Williamstown are free to the public.

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Williamstown Select Board Talks Policy on Plowing Private Ways

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board last week discussed a policy to guide decisions on whether to accept private ways for snow plowing by town personnel.
 
Actually, the town has an existing policy, and the Department of Public Works currently plows 10 private roads under that policy, which was enacted by the board in late 1980s.
 
"The document could be out there somewhere, but we can't find it," DPW Director Craig Clough told the board. "We found reference to it in the minutes [of meetings] and stuff like that, but there is no definitive, 'Here's your guideline.'
 
"It was time to create it."
 
The topic came to the fore in light of a request from the residents of the Sweet Farm Road subdivision off Henderson Road that the town accept their street as a public way.
 
That question, which the residents had hoped to bring to last May's annual town meeting, was put off until the May 2025 meeting at the earliest. In the meantime, the town discussed with the residents the possibility of the town assuming "winter maintenance" duties only until the full acceptance question is settled.
 
Among the private roads the town currently plows each winter are Danforth, Bryant and Porter Streets off Belden Street on the east side of town, Bingham Street off Main Street and Walnut Street off North Hoosac Road, to name a few.
 
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