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The Williamstown Select Board voted 4-1 against adopting a proposed resolution signed by 421 Town residents that calls for an “immediate and permanent ceasefire in Palestine and Israel” at its meeting on March 25. Members of the Select Board said they voted against the resolution on the grounds that it was not their place to weigh in on political issues outside the Town, while others disagreed with the text of the proposed resolution.

BOSTON – (Press Release) Governor Maura T. Healey today filed two bills that would increase resources for Massachusetts’ 351 cities and towns. The Municipal Empowerment Act expands on tools available to municipal leaders to generate revenue by allowing them to increase local option taxes on meals and lodging. The bill would also create a new local Motor Vehicle Excise

You could call it the Polar Express, referring of course to the proposed North Adams to Boston passenger train service.

Cities and towns will likely need to wait weeks longer to find out how much state aid they'll receive in the next year, and the answers they get will have spillover effects on municipal budgets and possibly even local property taxes.

Voters elected a four-term incumbent and a newcomer to the Select Board Tuesday.