Letter: Jennifer Macksey for Mayor

To the Editor:

Jennifer Macksey is quite simply the best mayoral candidate for North Adams. As any of Jen's coworkers, current or former, will tell you, Jen is a strong independent woman who has been successful in every position she has held. I have personally seen her incredibly strong work ethic and she puts her whole heart into everything she does — just imagine what she will do for the city she loves.

What an incredible benefit to have our new mayor walk into City Hall with the knowledge of how city government works. She will brainstorm with all the city departments to figure out what needs to be prioritized and get to work on it. There will be no long learning curve.

I find it disturbing that the only reason I hear to not vote for Jen is that she will be our former mayor's "mouthpiece." For those of you who have made that statement, you obviously don't know Jen.

Rebecca Cellana
North Adams, Mass.

Colegrove Summer Program Capped With North Adams Recreation

By Tammy DanielsiBerkshires Staff
06:22AM / Saturday, August 01, 2026

Mayor Jennnifer Macksey speaks with Drury intern Cypress Smith and artist Robert Fitzgerald at the summer program at Colegrove Park Elementary School. 

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — There were squeals of laughter as children did their best to fly planes by some of the city's most iconic structures. 

 

The planes were paper, the buildings cardboard and Main Street was a hallway at Colegrove Park Elementary School, but the setup represented nearly two weeks of creative research and design by the pupils in the public schools' 21st Century Summer Program. 

 

Local artist Robert Fitzgerald has been doing for summer camp five years, working with Grades 3 through 6.

 

"This has been an incredible summer," he said Thursday as children showed off their masterpieces to Mayor Jennifer Macksey. 

 

"The idea really grew out of a project we did last year, which was ... [Grade 4 teacher] Emma Marino had an airplane competition, and so the students we had been working with cardboard in the art room. So we built a city to surround the runway. 

 

"This year, when I asked her if she was going to do it, I said, 'Let's build North Adams.'"

 

He asked the students what was important and unique in North Adams, laughing that, of course, a lot of them went to fast food places.