Adams to Hold Special Town Meeting Nov. 15

By Brian RhodesiBerkshires Staff
10:12AM / Tuesday, October 11, 2022Print Story | Email Story

ADAMS, Mass. — Town meeting members will be asked to approve additional money for repairs and upgrades to the wastewater treatment plant at a special town meeting to be held at 6 p.m. on Nov. 15 at the Memorial Building

The warrant is open for citizen's petitions until 5 p.m. on Oct 19.

Town meeting gave the OK to just over $5 million for the plant in 2021. The plant was built in 1968 and had only a partial upgrade in 2006.

Town Accountant Crystal Wojcik said the additional amount needed is in the range of about $2 million.

"After the bids went out, it came back and it turned out that the project was higher than expected," she said. "So we are going back to town meeting to ask for authorization for the additional amount of money."

In other business, the board approved a facility use request for the Pumpkin Walk from Oct. 28 to 30. The board also set the hours for trick-or-treating, which will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Halloween.

"Last year, I don't know how many pumpkins we had, but we had a lot of pumpkins all out on display," said Town Clerk Haley Meczywor on the Pumpkin Walk. "We put Little tea lights inside and we light them up, and there's jack-o'-lanterns all over the place at the Visitor Center. It's wonderful for the young children, and it's wonderful for the younger adults and the older adults. It's inter-generational so you can come on down with your whole family, and you get to enjoy and walk around and see all the neat carvings that everybody has done."

The board also approved a facility use request from the Adams Lions Club for its annual Halloween parade on Oct. 30. The club will serve hot dogs to participants of the event free of charge.

The board approved adjustments to the activity use limitations for 1 Cook St., the former Hoosac Valley Coal and Grain site, which will soon be a park. Coughlin said site cleanup has allowed them to lessen the restrictions on the property.

The board ratified the position of Kevin Rayner as a planner for the town. Rayner started on Oct. 6.

The board approved a prorated seasonal liquor license for Poseidon Coffee.

The board ratified the position of operator Tristan Frieri.

The board approved an entertainment license for the Firehouse Cafe.

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North Berkshire School Study Encouraging Stakeholders to Take Survey

By Tammy Daniels iBerkshires Staff
07:22AM / Saturday, October 03, 2026

CHESHIRE, Mass. — The consultants behind the education study for North Berkshire are hoping for solid responses to its recently released survey.

The survey, released last week, can be found here.

"Our goal is somewhere between 5 and 10 percent overall survey responses, which is somewhere between 2,000 and 4,000 responses," project manager Jake Eberwein told the steering committee for the North Berkshire Educational Sustainability Study at Wednesday's meeting at Hoosac Valley High School.

This is the next phase of the study of secondary education in North County being undertaken through state funding and conducted by Berkshire Educational Consulting Group, Berk12.

"Our first phase was project awareness, and that was really our you know attempt to meet the school committees, select boards, and we wrapped that up this past Monday in Williamstown," Berk12 researcher Brendan Sheran said. "And certainly, we'll be doing more of that going back out probably in the midyear or springtime. But in terms of info gathering, really, the data collection — that's where we are now."

The community survey was launched through sharing on social media, the group's stakeholder list, the press, and the district partners, which are distributing it to educators, parents and students. The window is expected to close on Friday, Oct. 9, but Sheran said they can be flexible with the date.

The survey takes about seven to 10 minutes and is open to those in the Hoosac Valley Regional and Mount Greylock Regional school districts and in North Adams, Clarksburg, Florida and Savoy.

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