UPDATE: Hi-Jinx Night has been cancelled for Monday because of the threat of thunderstorms. It has been rescheduled for Monday, Aug. 28, from 6 to 9 p.m.
ADAMS, Mass. — Rain or shine, Hi-Jinx Night returns to Park Street on Monday from 6 to 9 p.m.
The annual street fair expects more than 50 vendors along with live entertainment.
Organizer Annmarie Belmonte said all donations and funds raised at this year's street fair will be donated to Hoosac Valley Football Booster Club and to a scholarship fund create in the name of Kaliq Sherman.
"Anyone wanting to make a donation to the booster club or the scholarship can do so by finding the donation tables in front of the diner on Park Street to help us help them," she said. "We will have a 50/50 set up also."
Sherman was killed in a car accident earlier this year.
More recently known for a time as the Susan B. Anthony Days Street Fair, Belmonte and Joe Martin, along with a group of volunteers, took over coordination of the event last year. It had been run by the town's Event Committee, which dissolved a couple years ago.
Park Street will close prior to the beginning of the event and Route 8 traffic detoured. Booths for organizations and commercial vendors will line the street from the library to the post office.
There will be face painting, music, giveaways, information, demonstrations, Hoosac Valley football's "pie in the face" booth, a variety of foods, and crafters and vendors.
"They range from handmade to direct sales as well as food and informational vendors," Belmonte said of this year's lineup. "Pony rides are back again this year."
As for entertainment, Riot Boi Entertainment will DJ and Omer Black will do a magic show.
"We have had the pleasure of being introduced to a few great entertainment people who were willing to donate their time to make this a great day," Belmonte said.
(If there are thunderstorms Monday, the event will be rescheduled.)
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Adams Welcomes New Officer; Appoints Housing Authority Board Member
By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff
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.
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.
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