No Contested Elections in Williamstown this May

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
02:02PM / Saturday, March 30, 2024Print Story | Email Story

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — There are no contested elections this spring in town.

Tuesday was the last day for potential candidates to return nomination papers with the required number of signatures.

On Wednesday morning, Town Clerk Nicole Beverly reported that four of the five positions on the May 14 ballot will have candidates.

Jeffrey Johnson has a spot on the ballot to run for another three-year term on the five-person Select Board.

Two other incumbents also will be on the ballot: Anna Halpin-Healy for the Milne Library Board of Trustees and Laila Boucher for the Northern Berkshire Vocational Regional School District (McCann Technical) School Committee.

Newcomer Samantha Page is the lone candidate for a five-year seat on the Planning Board. Page would replace Ben Greenfield, who was elected last May to fill the final year on an unexpired term on the five-person board.

Beverly reported that no one took out nomination papers to run for a vacant spot on the Housing Authority board.

The secretary of state's website has a page dedicated to the process of mounting a write-in campaign.

If the seat continues to go unfilled after the election, Massachusetts General Law calls for the remaining members of the board to name an appointee in a joint meeting with the Select Board.

All the signatures on the four sets of submitted nomination papers have been certified, Beverly said.

The town election is scheduled for Tuesday, May 14, from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Williamstown Elementary School.

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Mount Greylock Schools Bracing for Another Big Health Insurance Hit

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
12:42PM / Monday, January 12, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Like municipal entities across the county, the Mount Greylock Regional School District is bracing for another year of steep increases in health insurance costs.

It is unknown just how steep, but Superintendent Joseph Bergeron tried to prepare the School Committee at its January meeting on Thursday.

"The rumors, just so you hear them from me … are not confirmed, but right now, the projections are we might be close to a 20 percent increase in what's proposed in order to have premiums cover cost," Bergeron said.

"We're going to see where that goes. That's not at all confirmed. But, if true, a 20 percent increase, if that needs to go all to the appropriated budget, that by itself would be a 3.6 percent increase in our assessments."

Those are the assessments the district makes to member towns Lanesborough and Williamstown that voters each see in the form of, effectively, a bill that gets approved each spring at the annual town meeting.

For the current fiscal year, FY26, the district sent the towns assessments that were up from FY25 by 6.45 percent in Lanesborough and 7.59 percent in Williamstown.

Those hikes largely were driven by the 16 percent health insurance hike sought by the Berkshire Health Group to cover the cost of municipal employees covered by the joint purchase group.

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