WILLIAMSBURG The town and the city of Northampton have landed significant grants through the state’s Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness program that will be used to help construct a new public safety complex in Williamsburg and design a.
WILLIAMSBURG For more than 100 years the Helen E. James School building has stood watch over downtown. That era came to an end this week, when the venerable structure was demolished in preparation for the construction of a new public safety.
Williamsburg voters OK new $5M safety complex
Helen E. James school built in 1914 in Williamsburg.
Published: 4/4/2021 8:41:21 PM
WILLIAMSBURG Voters at Saturday’s special Town Meeting overwhelmingly signed off on construction of a new public safety complex, involving demolition of the Helen E. James School, for $5.1 million.
“The line was so long we didn’t actually get to start the meeting at 2 o’clock,” said Town Administrator Charlene Nardi.
More than 300 voters attended the meeting, and the vote was 259-48 for the article.
“I’m so excited to have this pass,” said Nardi.
The article was drafted by the Owner’s Project Manager Steering Committee, which was formed in 2017 to determine the site and scale of a new public safety complex. Jim Ayres chairs the committee and he said that he’s been involved with the public safety complex issue for more than six years.
Grand designs: Students pitch ideas for Mill River Greenway entrance in Williamsburg
Luca Guerra works on her ideas for the entrance to the Mill River Greenway. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Honor Zigmand, left, and Olivia Lockwood, talk about ideas for the Williamsburg entrance to the Mill River Greenway that would connect Haydenville and Williamsburg, as part of a project in Katie Joyce’s fifth grade class at the Anne T. Dunphy School. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Luca Guerra, works on ideas for one of the entrances of the Mill River Greenway that would connect Haydenville and Williamsburg as part of a project in Katie Joyce’s fifth grade class at the Anne T. Dunphy School in Williamsburg. Some of Guerra’s ideas were a duck pond, picnic tables, a bike rack, and bird feeders. On the left is Colton Shadrick and on the right in red, Elliot Chaplin. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS