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09-06-2025
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Powder Mill Road to get a full rehabilitation
SOUTHWICK — The DPW let the Select Board know last Monday it will start applying for state grants to do a complete renovation of Powder Mill Road, one of the town's most degraded roads. 'The road does need some work,' DPW Director Randy Brown said on Wednesday about the road's condition. 'It's a multiphase and multiyear project,' he added. The road, which is nine-tenths of a mile long, has been on the DPW's priority list of road rehabilitation projects for several years. That list is used by the Select Board when deciding which projects will be funded using money allocated during Town Meeting each year. In 2022, the town was awarded a $115,500 grant from the state's Rural and Small Town Development Fund for the redesign of the road, Brown said. The design, which was done by Westfield-based Tighe & Bond, was completed in 2024, he said, and has been waiting for state grant opportunities to become available, he said. The redesign, which is estimated to cost $1.86 million, is comprehensive, which Brown called a 'big price.' He said once the project is completed, it will connect the regional district's schools, the Southwick Recreation Center, Whalley Park and the rail trail with sidewalks. But before the sidewalks are installed, Brown said the road needs to be realigned. A portion of the current road is not in the center of the town's right of way, and if it isn't shifted, the sidewalks would be built on private property, which is not an option for the town, he said. Also included in the rehabilitation will be new drainage and an upsized water line. Hesitant to provide a time frame for when the project might be started and completed, he said it was dependent on the grants it could secure from the state. Two of the grants Brown said the department would be applying for is a Safe Routes to School, which is a state program, as is the Complete Streets Funding Program. When the town's Stormwater Coordinator Jon Goddard informed the Select Board that the DPW would be seeking the Community One Stop for Growth grant to cover a portion of the project's cost. Read the original article on MassLive.
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08-03-2025
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State and local leaders award grant for town growth project in Cummington
CUMMINGTON, Mass. (WWLP) – State and local leaders came together to celebrate Cummington's 'Community One Stop for Growth' grant award. The money Cummington got is going to support a major project that will help the town grow further. Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll and Economic Development Secretary Yvonne Hao joined state and local officials to celebrate the town of Cummington receiving $400,000 from the Community One Stop for Growth program. It will help the town renovate their former Berkshire Trail Elementary School into a space for town offices, a children's library, community events and more. 'This one Stop for Growth program was designed to think about how do you turn ideas and dreams into projects and action items,' stated Lt. Gov. Driscoll. 'So many of our tiny towns and rural places have lots of geography and lots of roads, but not a lot of people. So the formula didn't work in their favor. That's just one example of the way we know that the investments that we make, the state partnership is so important.' The event also celebrated all 49 grantees of the Rural Development Fund under the Community One Stop for Growth program. This program helps rural towns like Cummington to receive targeted resources to advance local priorities and unlock economic opportunity. A total of more than $10 million in awards went to these grantees. WWLP-22News, an NBC affiliate, began broadcasting in March 1953 to provide local news, network, syndicated, and local programming to western Massachusetts. Watch the 22News Digital Edition weekdays at 4 p.m. on Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
