Letter: New Name for Apkin

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To the Editor:

George Apkin & Sons Inc., would like to share with you some exciting news about our company. We have been working on a strategic plan to ensure that we will be able to continue servicing all our industrial and dealer customers seamlessly for the long term. To ensure that success, we have recently partnered with the Joseph Freedman Co. in Springfield and its affiliates, Perlman Recycling in Pittsfield and Eastern Vehicle Recycling in Westfield.

We are very excited for the depth that this partnership brings. They have a long history dating back 132 years, a great reputation, a professional and friendly team, and a full suite of metal recycling services to further complement our operations.

The only real change will be a small name change to: Apkin Inc. All of our employees in Adams are staying onboard in their current positions, and both of us (Joe Apkin and Bill Apkin) will be staying on as well. Joe Apkin will be leading the company as president, and Bill Apkin will be staying onboard in an advisory role. Sally Cable and Cindi McLain will remain in the office for anything you need.

We appreciate the community that we work with, and it is important to us that we sustain the reputaton and the standing that we have built. To ensure that, we have worked trelessly to make sure that we have partnered with a company that shares our values. We are confident that you will not be disappointed by the transiton.

Thank you to all who have supported us through the years, we look forward to a new chapter.

Joe & Bill Apkin, the Apkin Team
Adams,Mass. 

 

 

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Adams Treasurer's Retirement Prompts Talks on Making Post Appointed

By Tammy Daniels iBerkshires Staff
ADAMS, Mass. — The Selectmen last week appointed an interim treasurer/collector for the next year as the town determines whether to keep the post elected. 
 
Treasurer Kelly Rice tendered her retirement effective May 4, the day before the annual town election. The board voted to appoint her assistant, Christine Satko, to fill the post starting May 5. 
 
The board had a few options, outlined by Town Administrator Nicholas Caccamo at Thursday's special meeting: place the post on the town election ballot for this year, appoint a temporary treasurer (the assistant treasurer), or go through the process of changing the elected position to an appointed one via town meeting and ballot votes. 
 
Selectwoman Christine Hoyt said it was no secret that she has been an advocate for changing the elected post to an appointed one. 
 
Rice's retirement offered a good time to make that move, she said, pointing out that the state Department of Revenue back in 2017 had recommended the change, as well as for the town assessor.
 
"We have the general government review study ... put forward a recommendation in August of 2023 to make that position of treasurer/tax collector to be appointed," she said. "And then you have an article from the [Division of Local Services] regarding this change that has taken place in the state of moving from an elected treasurer/collector position to appointed."
 
She noted that there were 84 treasurer/collectors across the state still being elected as of 2014; that number is now 36. These changes were more recently made in Clarksburg and Savoy; the Adams Fire District is trying to again to move to an appointed treasurer, but Hancock rejected the idea. 
 
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