Voting will take place from noon to 4 p.m. in Becket Town Hall, at 557 Main St.
Karlberg, a 45-year resident of Becket, says she is running to make the board more responsive to local views on the applications it handles. She ran a write-in campaign last year for the board after being unable, because of the coronavirus pandemic, to get papers filed.
âThey donât seem to be listening to the neighborhood people,â she said of the board. âWe deserve to be listened to, too.â
Karlberg is a former chairwoman of the Becket Zoning Board of Appeals and served on the Conservation Commission. She works at Jacob s Pillow.
Becket residents work through a 20-item warrant at their annual town meeting Saturday night. LARRY PARNASS â THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
BECKET â In construction season, as many as 100 heavy-duty trucks can pass each day along Becket roads where Robert Benton likes to walk.
Thatâs what happens when you live near two busy companies, Williams Stone and Tonlino & Sons Crushed Stone, on Algerie Road and neighboring streets.
Benton rose during the annual town meeting Saturday to explain why he shaped a citizens petition on the nightâs warrant after speaking with local truckers and twice presenting a case to the Select Board that the noise from âengine brakingâ is detrimental to well-being and public health.