The school community gathered Friday morning on the school's front lawn.
ADAMS, Mass. — On Friday morning the Hoosac Valley Elementary School community gathered on the school's lawn to welcome the school's first sign.
Nearly seven years ago, Cheshire Elementary School and CT Plunkett Elementary School joined together to become Hoosac Valley Elementary School. After the closing of Cheshire Elementary School, the school district voted to rename CT Plunkett as Hoosac Valley Elementary School.
"At HVES, we share the importance of identity and belonging in every classroom as part of our Responsive Classroom approach," Principal Erin Beaulac said in a statement Friday. "Every student is called by their name and everyone is a part of our community. With that being said, we felt it was very important for our school's exterior to match our school's interior. There hasn't been a sign of the school's name on the outside of the building. This morning, all of that changed."
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Adams Town Meeting Members Approve All Special Town Meeting Warrant Articles
By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
Kyle Danforth and Patrick Kennedy state the case for the tax exemption they were seeking for their recycling business.
ADAMS, Mass. — Town meeting members on Wednesday night approved a tax exemption for a local business, the partial funding recension of a previously approved project and a $173,000 boost in the fiscal 2027 budget to account for additional personnel costs.
Some 98 of the town's 150 town meeting members attend the hourlong special town meeting in the Memorial Building gymnasium. All three articles on the warrant passed unanimously.
The item that faced the most discussion was Article 3, granting Dream Green Recycling a seven-year special tax assessment agreement.
The business, owned by Kyle Danforth, Dan Haskins, and Patrick Kennedy, has operated from leased facilities at 15 Printworks Drive in Adams and a 10,000-square-foot facility in Pittsfield. The partners recently purchased the Adams building.
The vote gives Dream Green Recycling with a temporary exemption from real estate taxes during its expansion under the following schedule:
Fiscal years 2027 & 2028: 100 percent
Fiscal year 2029 & 2030: 75 percent
Fiscal year 2031: 50 percent
Fiscal year 2032 & 2033: 25 percent
The hope is to expand its Adams facility and consolidate its Pittsfield operations by, eventually, moving all of it to Adams.
Part of the agreement requires the owners to execute its intention to renovate and upgrade its facility at 15 Printworks Drive, with an estimated capital investment of approximately $1.2 million to $1.8 million and add 12 jobs.
Over the last couple of years, the town's tax bill has left the owners operating "pretty much paycheck to paycheck," Danforth told the town meeting members.
The agreement will help ease some of that financial pressure as the company moves forward with its expansion, including the costs of purchasing new equipment, hiring additional employees and growing its operations, Danforth and Kennedy explained.
Some 98 of the town's 150 town meeting members attend the hourlong special town meeting in the Memorial Building gymnasium. All three articles on the warrant passed unanimously.
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