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Building Committee Chair Elaine Neely on Wednesday reported to the Prudential Committee that her panel received nine responses to the request for qualifications issued by the district and conducted interviews with three finalists last week. Representatives from Construction Monitoring Services, Colliers Property Management and the Architectural Consulting Group met for about an hour apiece over Zoom with the Building Committee, which includes the representatives from the district and the community at large. All three of the finalists have experience managing public safety building projects, including one, ACG, which served as the OPM on the recently completed Williamstown Police station. It was not the only finalist to post local experience. Colliers served as OPM on Berkshire County projects that include the new Williams Inn and, as Strategic Building Solutions, Colegrove Park Elementary School in North Adams.
Ruth Koscelniak, who lived through the pandemic of 1918, was greeted with flowers for her vaccination for the novel coronavirus. NORTH ADAMS, Mass. Lauren Gotlieb said she didn t even feel the physical pinprick of the needle. I don t even know how to describe that it s life saving, she said. It s globally life-saving. It s amazing as people that we were able to make it happen. Gotlieb was one of about 700 people who were given their first vaccine shot on Thursday at the vaccination site set up at St. Elizabeth s Parish Center. She was eligible as a health-care worker under the state guidelines since she works as an athletic trainer.
Treasurer Corydon Thurston on Wednesday reported to the Prudential Committee that members of the district s Building Committee have begun reviewing responses to its request for proposals and will meet next Thursday to begin discussing the applicants. The objective is that committee will determine how to evaluate proposals and narrow it to a couple of finalists, Thurston said. We hope that will be done by the first week of February and they can begin interviewing finalists and conduct site visits the week of Feb. 8. The week of Feb. 15 might be an extension, if necessary, and they may be able to present to the Prudential Committee at our Feb. 17 meeting so we can review and begin a negotiation process.
Firefighters from Williamstown, North Adams and Pownal, Vt., extinguished the blaze at the three-bedroom residence at 23 Hoxsey St. in about 30 to 45 minutes, Fire Chief Craig Pedercini said. The Clarksburg Volunteer Fire Department responded to provide coverage at the Williamstown station. No one was home at the time of the Wednesday afternoon fire. The three tenants, students at Williams College, left for break earlier in the week, according to the building s owner, Paul Rinehart, who was on scene to watch the cleanup. Pedercini credited workers from the Williams College Science Center project across the street with helping to get the fire under control.