image description — Organizers of last year's Adams Street Fair celebrating first responders is aiming to be bigger and better this year.

Second Annual Adams Street Fair to be Held on July 24

By Brian RhodesiBerkshires Staff
04:26PM / Sunday, March 06, 2022Print Story | Email Story

ADAMS, Mass. — In cooperation with and to benefit the town's first responders, the second annual Adams Street Fair will be held on July 24 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Hoosac Street and the Adams Visitor Center grounds.

"Every year, the Adams Street Fair Committee is going to hold a street fair for our first responders. It was very well done last year. We had a lot of compliments," said Joseph Martin, chair of the Adams Street Fair Committee. "We raised some good money for [first responders]. This year, we're going a little bigger."

Martin explained plans for the fair to the Board of Selectmen on Wednesday and said the fair will have expanded programming and festivities this year. The first Adams Street Fair was in August 2021.

"We have huge entertainment coming," Martin said. "We're going to have a mainstage set up for bands. We have a kid's area, which is going to be all for the kids. We have a magician coming, a juggler, clowns, along with our vendors."

One new event coming to the fair is a first responders parade. While the route is not yet final, Martin said he plans to speak with Police Chief K. Scott Kelley to plan that out.

"We're going to ask communities around if they'd like to participate and bring one of their apparatus and just do a little quick drive-by parade through the fairground," said Forest Warden Chief Griffin Willette, also on the fair committee. "We're going to determine a safe zone where no one will be jeopardized of getting in the way to our designated areas where we'll park our rigs. And the kids and community will be able to come up and look at them."

While the board fully supports the event, they urged the organizers to make sure vendor offerings are family-friendly after complaints about one vendor at last year's event. Martin said this should not be an issue this time around, and the contract will stipulate vendors need to keep their booths appropriate for families.

"This is a family event, and we are not going to have any of that," he said.

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Adams Man in Wednesday's Stabbing Incident Arraigned on Assault Charges

Staff Reports 01:00PM / Friday, January 30, 2026

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — An Adams man who called 911 on Tuesday night saying he had been stabbed was arraigned Friday on charges related to that incident and on outstanding warrants.

Philip White, 25, is accused of stabbing himself and calling 911 posing as a "friend." According to the Berkshire District Attorney's Office, an officer responding to the scene at 31 Commercial St. fired his weapon when the White was "observed approaching the officer in a threatening manner with an object in his hand." He missed, and no one was further injured.

White was initially held at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield for a mental health evaluation and was reported in stable condition from his wounds, which were described as not life-threatening.

He was charged in Northern Berkshire District Court with assault with a dangerous weapon, to wit: cutting instrument, in connection with the Jan. 27 incident. He is being held without right to bail probation violation from charges of assault and battery, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct from an incident on Sept. 12, 2025.

White has three outstanding warrants which include three counts of trespass and one count of assault and battery on a family/household member. The court has additionally ordered an evaluation on his competence to stand trial and at the defense request, criminal responsibility.

A dangerousness hearing request is scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 4.

District Attorney Timothy Shugrue said he will announce the findings of the full investigation into this incident, including the officer's discharge of his firearm, upon the conclusion of the investigation. The DA's Office said there would not be any additional comments at this time.

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