WILLIAMSTOWN â The Zoom âbombâ that disrupted a classroom and shocked the Mount Greylock Regional School community Jan. 21 was instigated by two students in another school district. According to Superintendent Jason âJakeâ McCandless, they were students of color.
McCandless, in reporting the results of the investigation during a Mount Greylock Regional School Committee remote meeting Thursday evening, noted that whatever the motivation of perpetrators, it is the perception of the victims that matters.
At the time, that perception was that it was a racial attack and caused shock and pain for the victim, whose log-in was used to enter the remote classroom, and who felt the racial epithets used during a song that was broadcast to the class in the unauthorized Zoom intrusion (known as a âbombâ) were directed at him.
Anne Hogeland, bottom, addresses the Williamstown Planning Board and Town Planer Andrew Groff, top left. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. For more than a year, the Planning Board has been hearing from people with strong opinions about whether the town should allow outdoor cannabis cultivation. On Thursday, one member made a plea for comments who are not quite as invested in the issue. We re going to hear those [strong advocates], and there s a reason they re the ones who are most interested. But you ve got a much larger portion of the town. … That s the stress testing I d like to know. Maybe it s not possible before you put [a bylaw amendment] up there. But I d like to know, for the massive middle of folks, whether [setbacks] ranging from 100 feet to 400 feet, allowing the largest size [plantation] but making it more restrictive, whether these ideas are intuitive to them, whether it makes sense to them, whether it s something they could see in their town.