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Ben Elliott won a three-year seat on the Select Board Tuesday by a wide margin after a contested race that centered on affordable housing, economic development and solving a water

A town-by-town breakdown of the coming weeks annual town meetings and elections.

During a candidates forum held at the Claire Teague Senior Center on Tuesday, April 25, candidates for the Great Barrington Library Board of Trustees discussed the future of the Ramsdell Library in Housatonic as well as the alarming increase in banned and contested books across the country.

They agree on Housatonic water, the school merger and creating affordable childcare. Both say they support the airports right to operate.

There were no "fireworks" per se between the two Selectboard candidates at the forum held at the Claire Teague Senior Center on Tuesday, April 25, with both Gregory and Elliott mostly agreeable when it came to issues facing the town.