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The Lennox Select Board convened on Wednesday, May 20, 2026, for a regular meeting. The board welcomed new member Jared Weber and covered a range of topics including approval of the 2026 Concerts in the Park series, several one-day liquor and entertainment licenses, the adoption of a state statute authorizing school bus stop-arm cameras, and manager changes at Gateways Inn and the Lennox Club. The board also held elections for its officers and discussed reorganizing its liaison assignments.
Good evening, everyone. We will call to order this regular meeting of the select board for Wednesday, May 20th. A few announcements from the chair. First, we'd like to welcome Jared Weber to the board. That's greatly appreciated. We have a new traffic pattern here in town, so we do encourage everyone to either take a look, it's posted downstairs or have a look on the website. It is clearly marked. There are large arrows. Hard to miss it, but uh do be aware that it's now a one-way uh where it was once two-way. The chamber of commerce now has a new location in the Curtis Building at 5 Walker Street. That will be there by June 1st. And the last thing I have to mention is that we at the time of posting, or after the time of posting, we had an unanticipated special license request uh by the Lennoxdale Fire Company, so that will be added to our consent agenda. Does anyone else have anything else they'd like to add? Yes, then I have one thing I'd like to add. Um we are in the midst of uh Berkshire's Art Week. It is the largest festival that we've had over the last six years. Uh this is a countywide event offering nearly 300 events over the course of 11 days. It runs um May 15th to the 25th, so we're right in the middle of it right now. Uh events are located throughout the county in the five cultural districts. Great Barrington, Lennox, North Adams, Pittsfield, and Williamstown. There are also events in Adams, Beckett, Cheshire, Lee, Otis, Richmond, Stockbridge, Tearingham, and West Stockbridge. The events feature performances, open studios, gallery shows, college and high school student art and musical theater, dance, poetry, interactive printmaking, family friend, family-friendly activities, and a lot more. Uh funds were provided by the Mass Cultural Council to the five cultural districts to partially sponsor Art Week Berkshires. Um, here at the town of Lennox, we also contribute to help sponsor that uh through our town budget. The Berkshire Regional Planning Commission and One Berkshire are lead partners for Art Week in the Berkshires. And uh One Berkshires hosts the event landing page, so you can go to Berkshires.org and at Art Week Berkshires, there'll be a whole listing of the remaining events for this Memorial Day weekend. So try to get out. Um enjoy the arts and in uh our town and throughout the county. Uh there are a lot of fantastic events and um experiences for everyone. Thanks. Anyone else? Memorial. Memorial Day Parade. Memorial Day. Oh, Memorial Day and Memorial Day. So Monday at 8 a.m. There will be uh the Lennoxdale Memorial Day Parade. Uh we assemble down at Moonshines with the uh fire department, the police department, and march down to the Veterans Memorial down by the bridge there. I can't remember the name of the bridge. Mill Street Bridge. Mill Street Bridge, thank you. You'd think I'd know that.