Before Michelle Maki can add a half-acre cannabis crop to her family’s homestead and farm, she ll need to prove the odor won t be a problem for neighbors.
Town meeting and election season is underway in Berkshire County.
Voters in Monterey, Massachusetts approved the town’s $4.5 million 2022 operating budget at its annual meeting Saturday.
In Cheshire, Raymond Killeen and Shawn McGrath were voted onto the town’s select board Monday, as were Howard Rosenberg and John Duval in Adams.
At the same time at West Stockbridge’s town meeting, voters like Dominic Lydon rejected a bylaw that would expand town authority over vehicle sales licensing.
“I asked that it gets benched, gets looked at longer and harder, that more information is more freely available, he said. And we talk about it some more.”
West Stockbridge, Massachusetts held its annual town meeting Monday night.
Under light rain, most of the 35-article town meeting warrant passed without much discussion at the socially distanced gathering in the town hall parking lot. Using a low wattage FM broadcast, town leadership addressed attendees from the community of around 1,200 through their car radios. But article 12, which would have expanded the town’s authority around licensing the buying and selling of new and used cars, attracted some static.
“Before the amendment, the license, the select board had the right to go in and take the license off the wall without a hearing or anything, said William Kie . Now that s changed, but two weeks is not sufficient time to correct anything that might be perceived as a violation. The whole law, I feel, is a violation of my rights as a taxpayer in the town and violates my constitutional rights.”