Adams Community Bank Sets Fuel & Heating System Loan Program

ADAMS, Mass. — Adams Community Bank is now offering fuel and heating equipment loans.

"After the especially cold winter we experienced a year ago, our bank is pleased to offer this program as a benefit to our customers needing assistance," said Charles O’Brien, president

The Fuel and Heating Equipment Loan Program is designed to assist borrowers with the escalating costs of fuel needed to heat their homes, to replace old inefficient heating systems, or to install supplemental systems.

To qualify the residence must be an owner-occupied, one- to four-family dwelling in Berkshire County. Condominiums are also eligible if they are individually metered.

For further details or to apply for a fuel or heating equipment loan, call 413-743-0001 or stop in to one of the bank's branch locations in Adams, Cheshire, Lanesborough, Lee, North Adams and Williamstown.

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.