FirstFriday 'Clean & Green' Initiatives in North Adams

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NORTH ADAMS, Mass.— April's FIRST Friday event will focus on helping North Adams become more Clean & Green starting April 7.

Several downtown shops, galleries, restaurants, and the First Friday crew will be organizing events focused on sustainability, as Earth Day approaches. Participants can help pick up sidewalk trash, and drop off their compost and recycling.

Theme-related events taking place:

The First Baptist Youth Group will lead a trash pick-up crew around downtown. Participants can meet them under the Mohawk marquee at 5:00 pm.

Second Chance Composting truck will be parked under the Mohawk marquee collecting bagged leaves and household food scraps for compost, 4:00-8:00 pm. All food scraps must be free of stickers, no plastic bags accepted.

A City of North Adams recycling truck will be parked under the Mohawk marquee collecting household aluminum/glass/plastic recycling from 4:00-8:00 pm. The city will also have its seasonal trash and recycling bins put up around downtown early this year, in time for First Friday.

Gallery, Shop, & Restaurant events:

INSTALLATION SPACE: Spectral Strata On View 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm 49 Eagle Street

Gallery 51: Layer/Build: Collage Explored On View 11:00 am-7:00 pm. 51 Main Street AND Venus Spectra On View in the windows of the MAC Arts Lab

Gravity Gallery: Center of Gravity Artist Residency, a new project of Walkaway House, features artists Jacob Grumulaitis (Brooklyn, NY) at the Gravity Gallery 5-8 pm. 44 Eagle Street

Future Lab[s] Gallery: Opening Reception 6-8 pm. Presenting work by Bo Petran and Anna Salmeron. Take part in an interactive ad campaign photo shoot for the new perfume ArtTown. All are invited, and styling and makeup provided. 45 Eagle Street

Savvy Hive will host a pop-up with The Emerald Phoenix from 5:00 pm-7:00 pm. Come learn about Tina's sustainable wellness products. Her products range from herbal tinctures, pain relief, oils, bath soaks, and more.

Plant Connector will be hosting a return of their 'hissing booth' featuring slithering species for the school-age set and The Hoosic River revival is also hosting a fête.

Alison Pebworth's Studio and Project Space: Alethea Morrison's Kindness Dispensary will debut at Alison Pebworth's Studio and Project Space 5:00 pm-7:00 pm. Come check out the menu for a private visit to the listening booth while socializing among new works in progress. 40 Eagle Street

Terra Vintage, newly moved to 11 Eagle Street, will be offering all the components to assemble complimentary DIY dresser sachets combining dried flowers and herbs for an eco-friendly fabric refresh.

Hearts Pace mocktails and live music. Mocktails start at 6:00 pm and live music goes from 7:00 pm-9:00 pm.

WallaSauce is hosting a fanny pack First Friday event, open to all. Make a fanny pack out of reused materials.

MAC Arts Lab: Come to 49 Main Street to make a reusable bag with the Bag Share Project. Turning empty seed, grain, and feed bags into sturdy bags for everyday use. Materials will be provided, but feel free to bring your own material to upcycle.

Conscientious Cloth creates "Flax is Linen" window display at 77 Main Street. The first in a series of fiber installations to amuse and educate. Free. 24-7. Sidewalk viewing.

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North Adams Inauguration Set for New Year's Day

Staff Reports10:04AM / Wednesday, December 31, 2025

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The city's new government will be sworn in on Thursday, Jan. 1, at 11 a.m. in Council Chambers.

The inauguration and organization of government is open to the public and may be broadcast on Northern Berkshire Community Television.

City Clerk Tina Leonesio will be in charge, calling the council to order and administering the oath of office until the new president is elected and sworn in. Once the council is issued its committee and liaison assignment, the School Committee members and McCann School Committee representatives will be sworn in.

The president will select two councilors to draw seat numbers for the next term and two to escort Mayor Jennifer Macksey to council chambers, where she will be sworn in and will address the city.

This ceremony has become something of a recent New Year's Day tradition, though the adoption in 1965 of the Plan A form of government has the mayor take office on the first Monday in January. However, the council takes office on Jan. 1.

As far back as 1913, the swearing in was a Monday in council chambers. The first mayor elected under Plan A, James Cleary, took the oath along with the nine councilors on Monday, Jan. 1, 1968. This continued through Mayors Francis Floriani, Joseph Bianco and Richard Lamb.

The date was shifted for the first inauguration of John Barrett III in 1984. The ceremony was moved to Drury High School on a Sunday night, Jan. 1, to allow for the event to be open to the public. It was the first time it had been broadcast on radio (WMNB) and television (cable Channel 7). (Macksey also held her first inauguration at Drury in 2022 because of expected attendance.)

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