WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A 7-year-old Williamstown child died Friday evening after a collision with a motor vehicle at the intersection of Main Street and Buxton Hill Road, the Berkshire County District Attorney's Office announced on Saturday morning.
Neither the child nor the driver were identified in the release. The child, Max Rothschild of Williamstown, was formally identified by the DA's Office on Monday. The driver has not been identified and the incident remains under investigation.
The vehicle was traveling east on Main Street, and the child, riding a bicycle, was headed down Buxton Hill Road toward Main, according to the DA.
"Preliminary information suggests that the bicyclist unintentionally entered Main Street where they were struck by the involved vehicle," the news release read.
The child died at the scene of the accident, the news release said.
"The driver of the vehicle was not impaired by alcohol or drugs," the news release said. "The bicyclist was wearing a helmet at the time of the collision."
The investigation remains active.
First responders included the Williamstown Police Department, Williamstown Fire Department; Northern Berkshire EMS, Massachusetts State Police Cheshire Barracks; Massachusetts State Police Collision Analysis Reconstruction Section and and the Berkshire State Police Detective Unit. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner accepted the case.
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Voters Will Have to Write in Mount Greylock School Committee Candidates
By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Voters in Lanesborough and Williamstown will need to write in candidates' names in the Mount Greylock Regional School Committee race on Nov. 3.
Six residents qualified to be on the ballot for four positions on the seven-person committee that are at stake in the biennial election.
But none of those six names will appear on the ballots voters take into the polling booth.
"Due to a series of clerical and technological issues, ballots for Mount Greylock Regional School District's School Committee for each of Lanesborough and Williamstown will have blank spaces instead of names," current School Committee Chair Julia Bowen wrote Tuesday in an email to local media.
Instead of simply filling in an oval next to the candidate of their choice, voters will need to mark that oval *and* write in their preferred candidates' names and addresses on each line next to the marked ovals.
As always, voters in both the school district's member towns vote for candidates for all School Committee positions.
In the current election cycle, two seats designated for Williamstown residents and two seats designated for Lanesborough residents are on the ballot.
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