Adams Movies Under the Stars Starts Friday

ADAMS, Mass. — The town's Movies Under the Stars will return for the summer this Friday at the Visitors Center.

Police Officer Gregory Charon, who also organizes Dana Labbee Summer Basketball, said that Movies Under the Stars will kick off this Friday with "Zootopia" at 7:30 p.m. The animated film is about the first bunny police officer and her adventures proving herself.

"That is going to happen this Friday, and it is going to happen at the Visitors Center," Charon said. "We are all set and ready to go and we need people and come to enjoy the Visitors Center."

After the disbanding of the Events Planning Committee, many town events were left without organizers. However, Dana Labbee Summer Basketball and the town decided to take over this event.

Charon said the event used to be held on the lawn of Town Hall, and the Visitors Center may be smaller but it will be safer.

"I just felt it was a little safer down there than on the front lawn," he said. "As a police officer I have worked that function and it just made me a little edgy that kids were near the road and everything."

The event is free and people are encouraged to bring blankets and chairs to sit on.

"Homeward Bound" will play July 29; "Norm of the North" will play Aug. 5 and "Pan" will play Aug. 12.

Adams Welcomes New Officer; Appoints Housing Authority Board Member

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff
05:44AM / Friday, April 19, 2024

Officer Cole Desroches recently graduated from the Police Academy. 

ADAMS, Mass. — The Selectmen welcomed the newest member of the Adams Police Department, Officer Cole Desroches, on Wednesday evening. 

 

Desroches graduated from the Police Academy on March 22 in the top tier in his class. He's currently in the field training program and assigned to Sgt. Curtis Crane. He attended Hoosac Valley High School and Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. 

 

"He's going to serve and protect the town of Adams very well," said Crane, who with Sgts. Matthew Wright and Gregory Onorato stepped in to introduce the new officer while Chief R. Scott Kelley was on vacation. 

 

"We don't often get an opportunity to kind of talk about, frankly, some of the positive things that are happening in town and one of the many things that I feel are positive with are the Adams Police Department," said Town Administrator Jay Green. "We are right now at full staff. We have a full complement of officers. We have a chief who just resigned a three-year contract. ... We have four very capable sergeants (including Donna Malloy)."

 

The force consists of the chief, the four sergeants, a full-time detective and 11 patrol officers. It also has a new position in Cpl. Joshua Baker who is responsible for training and keeping staff equipped. 

 

"We're on the cutting edge of ensuring that we have proper training in a very changing environment with law enforcement," continued Green. "And we have a nice complement of officers and we have a well-respected detective who handles some very complicated cases."

 

He called out the half-dozen officers who attended the meeting for the work they're doing as well as the K9 unit.