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Members: Peter Beck (Chair), Matthew Neely (Vice Chair), Shana Dixon (Secretary), Stephanie Boyd (Community Preservation Commission Representative), Nate Budington (Affordable Housing Trust Representative)

Select Board rejects all tax exemptions, sets FY27 rate at $15.16

Williamstown Select Board rejects every tax exemption, setting a single FY27 rate of $15.16 per $1,000. The board voted 5-0 four separate times, by roll call, denying the open space discount, residential exemption and small commercial exemption before maintaining a residential factor of 1.

Select Board approves two liquor licenses for cider events

Williamstown Select Board approves two one-day liquor licenses for a local cidery in a four-minute Zoom meeting.

Select Board Approves Pole Petitions, Hears Route 2 Safety Study Update

Williamstown Select Board advances $500,000 Main Street corridor safety study and approves four National Grid pole petitions.

Williamstown Select Board Approves Permanent Conservation Restriction on Loose Road Farmland

Williamstown Select Board unanimously approved a conservation restriction on a seven-acre Loose Road farmland parcel that has been in continuous agricultural use for more than a century.

Select Board Accepts Williams College's $2 Million Water Street Offer, 4-1

Williamstown Select Board votes 4-1 to accept Williams College's $2 million offer for a long-vacant Water Street lot. The board approved the revised bid at its June 22 meeting, with Secretary Shana Dixon casting the lone dissenting vote.