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FORT LEONARD WOOD, Missouri — For his 50th birthday, Spc. Orlando Kinchloe was gifted 50 push-ups and a cadence rendition of “Happy Birthday,” courtesy of his fellow trainees and cadre
A group of Stratford District Secondary School students recently launched a website aimed at educating local voters about the candidates in the city's upcoming…
WILLIAMSTOWN â As affordable housing advocates, renters and homeowners brace for expiration of federal and state coronavirus pandemic protections against evictions and foreclosures, the townâs Affordable Housing Trust is ready and able to help. On June 29, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a plea from landlords to end the Centers for Disease Control and Preventionâs moratorium on evicting tenants who fail to pay rent during the pandemic, keeping the ban in place until July 31. Massachusetts pandemic eviction protections expired in October, but a new law extends hardship protectio...
Mirroring the Williamstown Emergency Rental Assistance Program the board created last summer, the new program will provide grants of up to $15,000 to help homeowners economically impacted by the pandemic stay in their homes. Like the emergency rental program, the emergency mortgage grants will be administered by Pittsfield's Berkshire Housing Development Corp., which will screen applicants for eligibility and need. The seven-person trust board Wednesday authorized a three-member subcommittee to communicate the board's decisions about the program to BHDC, sign an agreement and g...
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The board of the town's Affordable Housing Trust on Wednesday decided to move ahead with an emergency mortgage assistance program for residents impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, approved a solution for a problem vexing a different town committee and learned that one of its members will be rotating off after May's town election. The board member in question is Anne O'Connor, who made her colleagues on that panel the first to learn that she will not seek another three-year term on the Select Board this spring. O'Connor, who occupies the trustee position desig...