Milne Library Hosts a Community Eco-Fair in Honor Climate Preparedness Week

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -—On Sunday, Sept. 21st from 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. the Milne Public Library will host an outdoor, Community Eco-Fair, to raise awareness about changing climate in honor of Climate Preparedness Week and to celebrate the many Berkshire groups working towards social, economic, and environmental sustainability.

Because September is also National Preparedness Month, staff will provide guidance on making "Go Bags," to prepare attendees for weather-related disasters, with the help of the Williamstown Police and Fire Departments and the Central-Western Massachusetts Red Cross.

Attendees can also learn more about initiatives in Williamstown, including Energize Williamstown, the Town's Net Zero Plan, and the sustainable features of the new Fire Department building and The Williams College Museum of Art.

There will also Food, live music, lawn games, a bouncy house and a seed bomb craft table. 

Stop by and meet these local organizations:

  • Energize Williamstown/COOL Committee

  • Williamstown Garden Club

  • HooRWA

  • Rural Lands

  • Purple Valley Trails

  • Berkshire Grown

  • Second Chance Composting

  • Coral Crochet Project

  • The Plant Connector

  • Menstrual Justice Initiative

  • Williams College Zilkha Center

  • Williams College Museum of Art

  • Bee Friendly Williamstown

  • Remedy Hall

  • ABC Clothing Store

  • Buy Nothing Williamstown

  • Goodwill

  • The Tamarack Hollow Nature and Cultural Center

  • Williamstown Police and Fire Depts.

  • Central-Western Massachusetts Red Cross

  • Milne Public Library: "Go Bag" guidance

  • Milne Public Library: The Thingdom (Library of Things)

  • Milne Public Library: Seed bomb-making for kids

In case of bad weather, the event will take place inside the library.

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Williamstown Board Signs Off on Utility Infrastructure, Conservation Restriction

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board on Monday approved one request from Berkshire Gas to install equipment in the town's right-of-way and put off another request pending more information from the utility.
 
Berkshire Gas was before the board looking for an OK to install a telemetering station on Church Street near the elementary school and a regulator station on North Street (Route 7) near the Clark Art Institute's satellite parking lot.
 
A senior engineering technician from Berkshire Gas attended the meeting to speak on behalf of the former request, but no one from the utility attended to support the North Street proposal.
 
"There was supposed to be someone else to talk about the regulator station," Wes Scalise told the board.
 
Town Manager Robert Menicocci and Department of Public Works Director Craig Clough told the board that the proposed 5-foot tall structure generated some safety concerns on the part of Town Hall.
 
"As you come around what is a relatively blind corner, you have a parking lot there during peak time that has a lot of traffic going in and out," Menicocci told the board. "We wanted to get a sense of the size [of the proposed installation] and whether any work was done to analyze what sight lines are like when people are pulling out of that lot."
 
Clough told the board that when he met with Berkshire Gas on the application, he suggested that the regulator station should be installed as far from the curb as possible and, if the Clark was amenable, out of the town's right-of-way entirely if possible. 
 
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