Letter: Thanks for a Successful North Adams Library Book Sale

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To the Editor:

On Sept. 16 and 17, Friends of the North Adams Public Library held our annual book and bake sale. This sale not only raised money to improve the library and provide programming for children and adults, but was a great community event for the citizens of North Adams and our neighboring communities.

At this time, we would like to thank the City of North Adams, especially Mike Cirullo and his crew, as well as the Trial Court Community Service program supervised by Shawn Wright for their commitment to transport boxes of books to St. Elizabeth's Center.

Dedicated workers and volunteers cleaned, sorted, packed, moved, set up and dismantled the sale. A special thanks to
those who donated books, shopped and helped at the sale.

Although it is a tremendous yearlong job to coordinate and put this event together, the results speak for themselves. Books of every genre found new homes and our library patrons continue to enjoy ongoing benefits from robust sales.

We look forward to seeing all of you next year and hope you consider donating books starting in the spring of 2023.

Many thanks,

Friends of the North Adams Public Library

Submitted by Stephen Smachetti
Stamford, Vt.

 

 


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North Adams Police Reaches League Title Game

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires.com Sports
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. – North Adams Police Department jumped out to a 4-0 lead and held on for a 4-3 win over Lee’s Wildcat Sports Group Wednesday in the semi-finals of the Berkshire County Cal Ripken minors division tournament at Kemp Park.
 
David Atwell had an RBI single at the plate and was one of three NAPD pitchers to combine for 16 strikeouts in the six-inning win.
 
Balls in play were hard to come by for either team, but Atwell and Ben Vivori each singled in the bottom of the first as Police scored a run that proved to be the difference in the game.
 
“We switched our lineup for the first time this year for this game, and our goal was to get some runs in that first inning,” NAPD coach Patrick Wood said. “And we got the one.
 
“We put Ben Vivori at the top. He’s been our most solid hitter. He has not been leading off. We put him up first just to try to get him on, move him along the basepaths and try to get the ball in play.”
 
The tactic worked. Vivori delivered an infield single and moved up on a couple of balls that got to the backstop before Atwell hit a one-out infield single of his own to make it 1-0.
 
NAPD then scored three times without the benefit of a base hit in the bottom of the second.
 
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