Nominations Open for the Scarborough Salomon Flynt Community Service Award

08:39AM / Friday, March 27, 2026Print Story | Email Story

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Scarborough Salomon Flynt Community Service Award Committee invites nominations for the eleventh annual award.

Nominations are due by 5:00 pm on Wednesday, April 22, 2026. The award will be presented at the Annual Town Meeting on Tuesday, May 19, 2026.

The Scarborough Salomon Flynt Award recognizes individuals or civic groups who demonstrate extraordinary dedication, excellence, and integrity in their service to Williamstown.

The award represents the merger of the Faith R. Scarborough Award and the Williamstown Community Chest Volunteer of the Year Award. It honors Faith Scarborough, Edith and Adolph Salomon, and Hank and Mary Flynt and their contributions as volunteers and engaged citizens of Williamstown.

Nominations must include a written narrative detailing the candidate's contributions and community service. The information included in the narrative serves as the primary source used by the committee in selecting an awardee.

Nominations may be submitted online by completing the form at found at WilliamstownCommunityChest.org, by emailing the required information to info@williamstowncommunitychest.org, or by mailing to Selection Committee, Williamstown Community Chest, PO Box 204, Williamstown, MA 01267.

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Mount Greylock School Committee OKs Updated Policy on Seclusion, Restraint

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
05:57AM / Tuesday, August 25, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Mount Greylock School Committee recently approved an updated policy on time-outs, seclusion and the physical restraint of students.

The policy is based on updated state regulations that came down last winter. Superintendent Joseph Bergeron told the panel at its August meeting that his office waited on recommendations from the Massachusetts Association of School Committees that were released in May and ran the proposed changes past the district's legal counsel.

That timing — and an expectation from the commonwealth that districts have the updated policy in place for the start of the 2026-27 academic year — led to an expedited process for the School Committee, which did not do a first read with a vote at a subsequent meeting as is its practice.

"Policy JKAA speaks to the ways the school district and our procedures shall abide by the updated state regulations," Bergeron said. "We're not going to have a lot of leeway.

"Nothing about the way we interact with our students on a day-to-day basis is being shifted by this."

For example, the commonwealth does not allow schools to use "seclusion," or, "the involuntary confinement of a student alone in a room or area, with or without adult supervision," except some extreme cases, like when, "when student behavior poses an imminent threat of assault, or imminent serious physical harm to self or others, but only if safeguards are accounted for," the updated policy reads.

"From the state's perspective and my perspective, the idea of locking a child in a room without adult supervision is something we've never done," Bergeron said. "And it's something the state wants to make explicitly that nobody ever does."

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