Voters in Williamstown overwhelmingly supported a $65 million school renovation Tuesday. The project now goes before Lanesborough taxpayers.With a roughly 55 percent turnout, Williamstown voters approved taking on more than $20 million in debt payments for the Mt. Greylock Regional School renovation. The vote was 2,226 to 351. Mark Schiek of Lanesborough chairs the district’s building committee.
“This is really a once in a generation opportunity to use tax money provided to us by the state,”Schiek said at a February informational meeting in Williamstown.
Lanesborough voters will decide on March 15 whether to take on more than $10 million in debt payments.