Williamstown Summer Farmers Market Seeking New Vendors

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williamstown Farmers Market (WFM) is currently in its third winter season, and the
he Summer season will kick off on May 16, on Spring Street. 
 
The outdoor market is home to 30+ farmers, prepared food vendors, artisans, musicians, and local non-profits, as well as thousands of regular customers who come to buy fresh, healthy food grown and raised by local farmers, delicious baked goods and other prepared foods, jewelry, arts, crafts, pottery, apothecaries and more. 
 
New vendors of all types are encouraged to submit an application for the summer season, and this year, the market is particularly on the lookout for businesses that provide prepared food or fresh fruit.
 
Anyone interested in becoming a vendor (at all or select dates through Nov. 7) is urged to take a look online at the WFM website, and to fill out the form on the "Become a Vendor" tab.
 
All applications are reviewed by the Williamstown Farmers Market Board. Priority is given to applications received by Feb. 20.
 
 

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Williamstown Housing Trust Gets Update on Summer Street Project

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – Northern Berkshire Habitat for Humanity continues to make progress on a planned four-home subdivision off Summer Street despite rising costs.
 
NBHFH project manager Keith Davis was back before the board of the town's Affordable Housing Trust in August to give an update on the project being developed on a parcel granted to the non-profit by the trustees.
 
"The majority of the site work is now done," Davis said. "The road base is completely in. We won't blacktop the road until the first foundation is done. It doesn't make any sense to drive a loaded cement truck over fresh blacktop.
 
"The detention basin is in. All the [stormwater] structures are in. I talked to [DPW Director] Craig Clough about coming in and looking at it, so he can verify all the structures are in. Because a lot of them get buried. That's the next step, to do that and sod it."
 
The construction package to build the road and stormwater infrastructure cost NBHFH $330,000. The Affordable Housing Trust kicked in $120,000 toward that, and the trustees have committed another $100,000 toward the construction cost of the first home to be built in what the non-profit has named the Meadowlands Subdivision.
 
Davis told the board at its Aug. 19 meeting that a couple of issues have popped up that have slowed the project and added cost.
 
One was the removal of an additional five trees on the 1.75-acre parcel.
 
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