Mount Greylock Class of 1975 Planning 50th Reunion

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock Regional High School class of 1975 has begun the process of planning its 50th class reunion.

Organizers are looking to update the current class list and are reaching out to family, relatives and friends to help in this endeavor. 

What is needed is the graduates' names (maiden name or name change, if applicable) along with email and phone numbers. Email Suzy Gigliotti at weeze56@verizon.net with this information.

Anyone interested in being on the planning committee or having any suggestions as to what you would like as part of the festivities, please note that in your email. Graduates/attendees are also invited to join the Mount Greylock Class of 1975 Facebook page.

Williamstown Fire Committee Sees FY27 Budget with Sizable Operational Increase

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
05:50AM / Tuesday, March 31, 2026

The Prudential Committee held its first meeting in the new station in late March with Treasurer Billie Jo Sawyer, left and committee members Lindsay Neathawk, David Moresi and Craig Pedercini.

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Prudential Committee last week reviewed a draft annual fire district meeting warrant that includes an operational expenses budget up 9.4 percent from the figures approved at the May 2025 annual meeting.

 

And, with a new line item added to the district's operational budget the total increase is closer to 24 percent.

 

Last May, meeting members — the meeting is open to all registered voters in town — approved an FY26 spending plan that totaled $686,991.

 

On July 1, the first day of the fiscal year, a special district meeting voted to allocate $40,000 from the district's stabilization fund to the operating budget, effectively raising the baseline to $726,991, a 34 percent increase, year over year, from FY25 to FY26.

 

The July 1 meeting moved $20,000 of stabilization funds to the firefighter pay line and $20,000 to the maintenance and operation line — nearly doubling the former and raising the latter by 75 percent from FY25 to FY26.

 

Both those lines are up again in the planned FY27 budget, but more modestly: 2 percent for M&O (up from $123,000 to $125,500) and 27 percent for firefighter payroll ($110,000 to $139,900).

 

Most of the other line items net out to no significant change; some are up a little, some are down a little.