Incumbents Only Candidates for Mount Greylock School Committee

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03:40PM / Monday, August 19, 2024Print Story | Email Story

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The composition of the Mount Greylock Regional School Committee likely will remain unchanged after November's election.

Only three incumbent members of the seven-member panel returned nomination papers for the seats that will be on the ballot for voters in Lanesborough and Williamstown on Nov. 5.

Lanesborough resident Ursula Maloy and Williamstown's Julia Bowen and Jose Constantine each will be seeking another four-year term on the committee.

Bowen and Constantine each will be seeking a second full term on the School Committee after they were elected to the post in 2020.

Maloy was appointed to fill 18 months of an unexpired term in 2021 and then elected to fill the remainder of that term in November 2022.

Residents of both the regional school district's member towns vote on all seven seats on the committee. That's why, unlike other local elections, the positions are decided in November of federal election years instead of in the spring, when towns hold their elections on varying days.

Per the regional agreement, three of the seats on the School Committee are filled by Lanesborough residents and four are filled by residents of Williamstown, the larger of the two member towns.

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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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