West Stockbridge Town Election Set May 8

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WEST STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — There is one race on the ballot for a seat on the Select Board this year. 
 
Incumbent Kathleen Keresey is being challenged by Jon A. Piasecki for the three-year seat. 
 
Keresey, a former member of the Finance Committee, was elected unopposed in 2020. She is a film and video producer.
 
Piasecki, a landscape architect, has served on the Conservation Commission and Planning Board. 
 
Running unopposed are Eugene Dellea for moderator; Michelle Laramee-Jenny for Board of Assessors; Mary Korte Kinmond for Cemetery Commission; Andrew Fudge for tree warden; Christopher Tonini for Planning Board; David Finck for Board of Health; Andrew Potter for library Trustee; Robert Salernor and Steve Sautman for two seats on the Finance Committee, and Karl Cooper, Wayne Cooper, Elizabeth Digrigoli and Paul Faggioni for five constable positions. 
 
Voters will also decide whether to have the town clerk and collector be appointed positions. These two questions had to be approved at the May 1 annual town meeting to take effect. No appointments would be made until the current incumbents have completed or vacated their terms. Neither position is up for election this year. 
 
The town election will be held Monday, May 8, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the Town Hall gymnasium. 

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MassDOT Advisory: South County Construction Operations

LEE, Mass. — The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) is announcing crews will be conducting daytime and overnight hour guardrail repair, drainage work, pavement marking, and bridge repair operations at various locations and times on I-90 eastbound and westbound during the week of Monday, June 10.  

Lane closures will be in place during the construction operations and traffic will be able to travel through the work zones. 
 
The schedule for the work and lane closures will be as follows:    

Otis/Blandford    
Guardrail and drainage work will be conducted on I-90 eastbound and westbound from mile marker 21.0 to 26.6 on Monday, June 10, and Tuesday, June 11, from 7:00 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. the next morning. The work is expected to conclude by 5:30 a.m. on Wednesday, June 12

Otis
Guardrail repair work will be conducted on I-90 westbound from mile marker 21.0 to 23.0, on Wednesday, June 12, and Thursday, June 13, from 7:00 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. the next morning. The work is expected to conclude by 5:30 a.m. on Friday, June 14.

Blandford  
Bridge repair operations will be conducted nightly on I-90 westbound from mile marker 26.0 to 27.0, on Wednesday, June 12, and Thursday, June 13, from 7:00 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. the next morning. The work is expected to conclude by 5:30 a.m. on Friday, June 14.    

Stockbridge/West Stockbridge  
Guardrail and bridge repair work will be conducted nightly on I-90 westbound from mile marker 2.5 to 5.0, from Monday, June 10, through Thursday, June 13, from 7:00 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. the following morning. The work is expected to conclude by 5:30 a.m. on Friday, June 14.

Stockbridge  
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