Adams Community Bank Accepting Donations for Sonsini Shelter

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ADAMS, Mass. — Adams Community Bank will once again partner with the Eleanor Sonsini Animal Shelter to support its efforts in helping homeless animals this winter.   

The Eleanor Sonsini Animal Shelter is a municipal shelter located in Pittsfield. It is dedicated to reuniting stray animals with their owners, providing veterinary care for animals in need, and finding loving homes for adoptable, homeless animals.

The bank invites residents to join it in helping the shelter with needed supplies such as dry dog food, canned and dry cat food, liquid hand soap and non-scoopable cat litter.

Donations are being accepted at each of the bank's seven convenient branch locations in Adams, Cheshire, Lanesborough, Lee, North Adams and Williamstown. A full list of needs is available in each of the branch lobbies or on the bank's Facebook page.

Adams Community Bank is an independent, community savings bank located in the Berkshires. Incorporated in 1869, it the institution has approximately $400 million in assets.

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Clarksburg FinCom, Select Board Agree on $1.9M Town Operating Budget

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff
CLARKSBURG, Mass. — The town is looking at an operating budget of $1,859,413 for fiscal 2025, down a percent from this year largely because of debt falling off.
 
Town officials are projecting a total budget at about $5.1 million, however, the School Committee is not expected to approve a school budget for two more weeks so no final number has been determined.
 
Town officials said they've asked the school budget to come in at a 2 percent increase. Finance Committee member Carla Fosser asked what would happen if it was more than that. 
 
"Then we would need to make cuts," said Town Administrator Carl McKinney, adding, "I'm a product of that school. But at the same time, we have a town to run to and, you know, we're facing uncertain weather events. And our culverts are old, the roads are falling apart. ... ." 
 
The assessment to McCann Technical School is $363,220, down about $20,000 from this year.
 
The major increases on the town side are step and cost-of-living raises for employees (with the exception of the town clerk at her request), the addition of a highway laborer, an increase in hours from 16 to 24 for the town accountant, and insurance and benefits that are about $70,000. There is a slight increase for employee training and supplies such as postage.
 
Select Board Chair Robert Norcross at Wednesday's joint meeting with the Finance Committee, said the town's employees are hard-working and that wages aren't keeping up with inflaction.
 
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