In a letter to the editor, Lilliana Wells urges Williamstown voters to elect Dr. Bilal Ansari for the Williamstown Select Board during the May 10 election.
On Wednesday, the College reported 20 new student cases and six new faculty and staff positive cases. 1140 new tests were added to the COVID dashboard on Wednesday, bringing the number of positive tests in the past seven days to 56. These cases bring the College’s weekly positivity rate to 1.91%.
Masking is once again required in classes, libraries, academic buildings, and indoor athletics facilities, Chief Communications Officer Jim Reische wrote in an all-campus email this afternoon. However, community members can still unmask when eating in dining halls and while in residence halls.
The administration hopes to lift the mask mandate for students in class the week after spring break, which ends on April 4, if the number of COVID-19 cases remains low as students return to campus.
Effective immediately, fully vaccinated and boosted students, faculty, and staff are allowed to unmask in indoor athletics facilities, academic and administrative buildings, and at events that are open only to members of the campus community, Chief Communications Director Jim Reische announced in an all-campus email today.
Students can now unmask in all residence halls and eat and drink indoors anywhere except classrooms, Chief Communications Officer Jim Reische announced in the Campus Operations and Business Continuity Update on Feb. 11. Also, effective Monday, Feb. 14, students will only need to test for COVID-19 once a week.
Jan. 31 | 2:45 p.m.
On Monday, the College reported 12 new student cases and one new faculty and staff positive case from over the weekend. 31 test results were added to the COVID dashboard around 1 p.m.
An independent investigation commissioned by the Williamstown Select Board concluded that former Williamstown Police Department (WPD) chief Kyle Johnson and former WPD sergeant Scott McGowan engaged in multiple instances of sexual and racial workplace harassment from 2002 to 2019.
Jan. 20 | 3 p.m.
On Thursday, the College reported 21 new student and 12 new faculty and staff positive cases. 2041 test results were added to the COVID dashboard around 1:15 p.m.
Jan. 15 | 11 a.m.
On Saturday, The College reported nine new student and four new faculty and staff positive cases. 1123 test results were added to the COVID dashboard around 10:45 a.m. This brings the weekly positive total to 97 for students, faculty, and staff combined, and 73 for students.
