Adams Sets Annual Town Meeting Date

The Selectmen set the annual town meeting for June 23.

ADAMS, Mass. — The Selectmen on Wednesday set the annual town meeting date and opened the warrant.

The Selectmen also suspended rules at the workshop meeting to vote on a town meeting date.

Town meeting will be Tuesday, June 23, at 7 p.m. in the C.T. Plunkett School auditorium.

"I think that this still gives us a week before the end of the fiscal year, which will give us time if we need to make any last minute changes," Town Administrator Tony Mazzucco said.

Mazzucco said in the future he would like to move town meeting to an earlier date in June.

The board also approved facility requests for Berkshire Arts and Technology Charter Public School, Hoosac Valley High School, Dana Labbee Summer Basketball, Adams Soccer Club, and Adams/North Adams Babe Ruth.

Selectman Joseph Nowak said he attended a Parks Commission meeting at which commissioners sorted out who has priority use of the fields.

"They went through all of this and at the time it seemed to work well for all involved," Nowak said.

Selectman John Duval asked if there would be a conflict between BArT and Hoosac Valley both using Russell Field.

Nowak said the two schools have an agreement and Hoosac Valley has priority use.

The board also appointed Baily Hisert as seasonal help in the Department of Public Work. Hisert's name was omitted when the board originally appointed the seasonal help.

"I know he worked last year and was pretty valuable from what I heard," Nowak said.

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.