ADAMS, Mass. — The Bellevue Cemetery garage project is still on course to go out to bid this spring.
Cemetery Commissioner Bruce Shepley told his colleagues last Thursday that no progress had been made on the garage over the winter but they should expect some movement this spring.
"The update on the building is that there is no update," he said.
The town will use more than $100,000 from the cemetery fund to overhaul the current structure at the cemetery in the town's south end. A smaller shed will also be purchased to accommodate cold storage.
Shepley said the commissioners will be invited to a pre-bid conference.
"It is pretty straightforward," he said. "It would be a time for us to ask questions and adjust the monies we plan to spend."
The commissioners were also asked if dog feces are as much of an issue at the cemeteries as they are throughout the rest of the town and Shepley said he didn't think so.
"Dogs are not allowed there and no one has come forward to me and nothing has been forwarded to me," he said. "I really haven't seen anyone with dogs there."
Shepley said he could only recall Selectman James Bush mentioning that he has stepped in dog poop while at Bellevue Cemetery.
The week before, the Board of Health heard from a group of citizens who felt that dog owners not cleaning up after their pets was getting out of hand, specifically on the Ashuwillticook Rail Trail and the Greylock Glen.
Even the Parks Commission weighed in last week, noting that many of the towns playing fields are littered with dog waste now that the snow's gone.
Shepley suspects the town cemeteries seem to draw more respect from dog walkers.
"I have never heard of dog excrement being an issue in the cemeteries," he said. "Maybe it is just a sacred area."
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Adams Picks Select Board Candidates; Cheshire Nixes Appointed Assessor
By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff
ADAMS, Mass. — Voters chose incumbent John Duval and newcomer Ann Bartlett for the two open seats on the Selectmen.
Bartlett, a co-owner of the former Red Carpet Diner, garnered the most votes at 791, more than 300 above the other three challengers, and Duval was returned for another three-year term with 685.
Incumbent Howard Rosenberg's decision sparked a five-way race for the two seats. Coming in third was Jerome Socolof with 465, Mitchell Wisniowski with 446 and former board member Donald Sommer with 367.
All results are unofficial.
Wisniowski did win a seat on the Parks Commission and Michael Mach outpolled challenger Timothy Kitchell Jr. 887-407 to stay on the Planning Board.
Frederick Lora appears to have bested Jennifer Solak as Adams representative to the Hoosac Valley Regional School District by 10 votes. The unofficial tally is 814-804, with Lora gaining 674 votes to Solak's 620 in Adams; the voted flipped in Cheshire with Solak winning 184-140 but not enough to overcome the gap. Robert Tetlow Jr., running unopposed, was returned as the Cheshire representative.
Write-ins for Board of Health and Redevelopment Authority, which had no candidates, were still being tallied.
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