SHELBURNE FALLS — Foundation work for Arms Library’s Pratt Memorial Building has been completed by Galvin and Sons, for less money than was anticipated.
Selectman Robert Manners said Jones Whitsett Architects has been contacted to go forward with designing interior renovations. The 1914 Beaux Arts-style library building was damaged by Tropical Storm Irene in 2011, and phase 1 of the renovation was completed last year, with a new copper domed roof and drainage system. The second phase of the renovation is to include window improvements, interior mural restorations, and electrical improvements.
Randy Gobeil of the Arms Library Association and Cynthia Caporaso of the Pratt Memorial Library Building Committee have both recently resigned from their library positions. Manners thanked them for their service and said they will be greatly missed.
HAWLEY — Residents who haven’t yet completed a high-speed internet survey for the Communications Committee are asked to fill it out as soon as possible and return it to the Town Office.
Forms are available online at: bit.ly/2fY2NZZ
If you can get to the survey on line, you can either download it, print it out and fill it out by hand. Then send it in, or drop it off at the Town Office. Or follow direction to email it back to the town.
You can also stop in and pick one up at the Town Office. Call Cass at 413-339-5518.
The Communications Committee needs the survey feedback. This feedback affects hundreds of thousands of dollars in state funding.
SHELBURNE — The Board of Selectmen has agreed to support a $90,000 resurfacing project for the Cowell Gymnasium outdoor tennis court — in hopes the town gets a Mass. PARC grant that would pay for at least 70 percent of the project.
If the town gets the Parkland Acquisitions and Renovations for Communities grant, it would pay for about $65,000 of the tennis court renovation, with the town to pay a matching share of about $25,000. Gym Director Emily Crehan said the board’s show of support will help the grant application.