Adams Parks Commission Will Ask Town Meeting for Storage Shed

By Brian RhodesiBerkshires Staff
08:50AM / Thursday, March 10, 2022Print Story | Email Story

ADAMS, Mass. — The Parks Commission voted to endorse plans for a new storage shed on Valley Street Field to be put on the list of warrant articles for the annual town meeting.

"I submitted this to the town as a capital project, for the town meeting to decide whether or not to fund this," said Parks Foreman Steve Skrocki. "So now it's a waiting game to see what's going to happen."

Skrocki said the new shed would replace the current shed, which he reported at previous meetings to be in disrepair. In addition to town uses, the Adams Cheshire Little League utilizes the shed.

"It needs a lot of work, and it's too small," he said. "We use it, and the league uses it for material and equipment. Its use is outdated."

The town got a quote of just under $5,500 for material costs, but Skrocki said the price of raw materials is likely to go up. He said he asked for about $1,000 more than the quote to account for this.

"I asked for more than that because who knows what's going to happen with the price of material, the way things are going," he said.

There should not be any labor costs for the shed, according to Skrocki, since students from McCann Technical School will be responsible for building it.

In other business, several organizations submitted field use requests for the spring and summer, all of which the commission approved.

Hoosac Valley athletics will use Russell and Reid fields for school sports from March 21 to June 20.
Adams Cheshire Little League will use Valley Street Beaver Bard Field from March 19 to Aug. 31.
Adams Lassie League and Greylock Thunder will use Russell Field from April 1 to Aug. 31.
The Adult Baseball Spiders will use Renfrew Field from May 5 to Aug. 14.
The Adams Cheshire Savoy Youth Girls Softball team will use Reid Field from March 15 to Aug. 31.
Adams Cheshire Savoy Youth Soccer will use Valley Street Field from April 10 to Aug. 30.
Youth Center Inc. will use Valley Street Field for an Easter egg hunt from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on April 10.

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Notre Dame Church Closed Indefinitely as Diocese Assesses Structural Damage

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
05:43AM / Wednesday, September 30, 2026

ADAMS, Mass. — What began as concerns over peeling paint inside Notre Dame Church turned out to be a much larger issue, as the church is now closed indefinitely after inspections revealed structural damage, particularly in the steeple.

Notre Dame du Sacre Coeur Catholic Church, located at 21 Maple St., has been taped off and closed since last week as the Diocese of Springfield assesses water damage affecting several areas of the building.

"There are multiple issues ... but the long and short of it is that there's been a water breach in a number of locations at the church, [compromising] some of the structures. The steeple clearly has been negatively impacted by this water breach, and so they're looking at the steeple as one potential major issue," said Mark Dupont, Diocese of Springfield's director of communications.

"A lot of the other ones are not to that level, but taken as a whole, they might be problematic in the long run. This church is well over 100 years old and has served that community with great distinction over the years, but unfortunately, sometimes our past history with these churches is that they quickly become very costly when they start having issues."

The church was built around 1882 to serve the area's French-speaking residents and is one of the three churches part of the Saint John Paul II Parish, which also includes St. Mary's in Cheshire and St. Stanislaus in Adams, Dupont said.

Parish staff first noticed peeling paint inside the Notre Dame church, which can be an indication of water intrusion, and hired a structural mason to inspect the steeple and possibly do some repairs, he said.

However, the inspection revealed more extensive damage to the steeple than initially anticipated, prompting parish staff to immediately contact the Diocese of Springfield and close the church, Dupont said.

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