Questions Sought for Williamstown Candidate Forums

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Residents are encouraged to submit questions for a pair of candidate forums in Williamstown on Tuesday.
 
The Williamstown chapter of the League of Women Voters is hosting the forums for candidates running for two seats on the Select Board and one seat on the Planning Board. League member Jennifer Howlett will be the moderator.
 
The forums will be held starting at 4 p.m. at Town Hall and will be taped by the town's community access television station, Willinet. The public is invited to attend in person. 
 
Candidates for the Planning Board will appear from 4-6 p.m., followed immediately by the candidates for the Select Board. Candidates will make opening and closing statements, and members of the audience will have the opportunity to ask questions. 
 
The candidates planning to attend are: for Planning Board, Carin DeMayo-Wall and Kenneth Kuttner; and for Select Board, Bilal Ansari, Randall Fippinger and Jane Patton.
 
Either Kuttner or DeMayo-Wall will be elected on May 10 for a five-year seat on the Planning Board.
 
There are two seats on the ballot for the Select Board. Incumbent Patton is running for another three-year term. The top two vote-getters among the three candidates on the ballot will be elected to the board.
 
All questions submitted for Tuesday evening's forums should be addressed to all of the candidates running for a particular office.
 
Questions can be emailed to Mary Lovvorn at zrobi@hotmail.com.
 
The League of Women Voters is tentatively planning an April 29 forum via Zoom for the five candidates running for four three-year seats on the Milne Public Library Board of Trustees.
 
Incumbents Michael Manary, Bridget Spann and Timothy Cherubini are on the ballot along with Robin Lenz and Hale Polebaum-Freeman.

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Williamstown Again Williams' Town in Summer of '25

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williamstown Theatre Festival has announced a 2025 season with five full-scale productions, including two world premieres and two revivals of dramas by Tennessee Williams.
 
The summer festival lists the five productions on its website, which provides no information about dates and says tickets go on sale "in March."
 
In addition to two of his own works, Williams' influence is seen in one of the new works planned for the summer season, according to the WTF.
 
Williams, a Pulitzer Prize winner, was to have been included in the WTF's aborted 2020 season with a production of "A Streetcar Named Desire."
 
After the COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of that season, the festival made its production available on a streaming service.
 
His canon has been a longtime staple of the festival, including a 1999 production of "Camino Real" on the Main Stage. Williams himself had a summer residency in Williamstown in 1982, one year before his death.
 
"Camino Real" returns for 2025 along with a production of "Not About Nightingales," one of Williams' earliest works, which he penned in 1938.
 
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